[2015] From the SAO - Fwd: "The Big Event is Coming Soon!" January 27th !!!

[Jessica J Yang]

A message from the Student Activities Office...
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Hello Students Leaders,

Happy New Year! I am excited to make you all aware of a wonderful opportunity. On January 27th,  MIT will hold it's Annual Diversity Summit! If you attend, you will be able to meet, interact and engage faculty, staff and peers around issues of diversity and inclusion. This event is free for all MIT students and lunch will be served! Below you will find detailed info and a registration link (walk-in's are welcome).  Please forward this information to your members and your peers. We hope to see you there!

Best,

La-Tarri Canty, MSS
Director of  Multicultural Programs
Assistant Director of Student Activities
(617)253-6189
77 Massachusetts Avenue, W20-549C
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being"~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Institute Diversity Summit – Diversity & Excellence  Jan. 27, 2012

Students encouraged to register at: http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg

  *   No cost to attend – Lunch provided to registered attendees
  *   Come for all of the program – or just part of the program
  *   Registration encouraged but drop-ins welcome

Details:
8:45 am-3:30 pm
Room 10-250 & select conference rooms

With Opening Remarks from MIT President Susan Hockfield and comments on Diversity and Excellence by MIT Executive Vice President & Treasurer Israel Ruiz

Keynote Speaker: Evelynn Hammonds, PhD
Dean of Harvard College, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies

Panel Discussion: Diversity and Excellence
Facilitated by Prof. Emma Teng, with Prof. Lotte Bailyn, Prof. Edmund Bertschinger, Chancellor Eric Grimson, and Associate Provost Wesley Harris

Panel Discussion: Diversity and Excellence—Focus on MIT Undergrad, Grad, and Postdoc scholars
 Facilitated by Bomy Lee Chung, with Eric Boyer, ’13; Alex Evans, ‘G; Laura Lopez, Postdoc Fellow; Sophie Ni, ‘G


Break-Out Sessions on:
Implicit Bias
Cultural Awareness for more Effective Intercultural Communication at Work
Impostor Syndrome
Living Group Leaders
Transgender 101

Register Now >> <http://www.regonline.com/diversitysummit_reg>




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