MLK Center, Confucius Institute to Bring Sam Museus to UK
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 22, 2020) — This Monday, the University of Kentucky Martin Luther King Center and the UK Confucius Institute will host University of California San Diego Professor Sam Museus. Museus will present two sessions on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion that will take place at noon and 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, on Zoom. The events are free and open to the public.
Museus’ noon presentation, titled “To Imagine a More Inclusive and Equitable Campus,” will discuss what it means to imagine equitable campus cultures that allow all students to thrive in college. He will also discuss some of the challenges in cultivating these types of environments and offer ideas regarding how institutional leaders, educators and students can work together to overcome those barriers and advance efforts to create more equitable campuses.
Join the noon discussion at https://uky.zoom.us/j/85985375259#success.
The 6 p.m. session, “Unique Struggles, Shared Futures,” will focus on the important role of critical solidarity in social justice agendas and some of the barriers to cultivating and maintaining such solidarity across identity groups. Museus will engage the audience in a conversation about how to more effectively foster critical solidarity in our collective work to achieve a more socially just world.
Join the 6 p.m. discussion at https://uky.zoom.us/j/87152426310#success.
Museus is a professor of education studies at the University of California San Diego and the founding director of the National Institute for Transformation and Equity. He has more than 200 publications and conference presentations focused on diversity and equity, campus environments and college student outcomes. Museus also consults with college campuses that seek to transform their institutions and cultivate more inclusive and equitable campus environments.
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