Dear GSCA members,
Happy New Year, and Welcome Back!!! I hope that your winter break was restful, and that you are ready to attack the semester.
As the semester commences, I wanted to send an email with several updates and events:
1.
12th Annual EDL Graduate Student Conference on Leadership, Culture and Schooling
"Education and Global Struggles: Reimagining education to save the world"
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Miami University, Oxford Ohio
2.
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Miami University will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a peace march and commemoration program with speaker Sharon Draper (Miami MAT '73) Monday, Jan. 16. The peace march will begin at 10 a.m., starting at the Uptown Parks in Oxford and ending at Hall Auditorium. The program will begin at 11 a.m. in Hall Auditorium. Draper is a New York Times best-selling author, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, an Ohio Teacher of the Year and a National Teacher of the Year (1997). She will present “A Man. A Memory. A Mountaintop." In her presentation, Draper will discuss King’s influence on her life, his importance to future generations and the responsibility of contributing to that future. Draper will also speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Sesquicentennial Chapel, on “A Blueprint for Dreamers.”
See flyer below and attached!
3.
Celeste Didlick-Davis
Our very own Celeste Didlick-Davis, PhD student in the Educational Leadership Program, will be delivering the keynote address at the United Way’s African American Leadership Initiative: The Herbert R. Brown Society Breakfast Speaker Series.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 8 - 9:30 A.M.,
Middletown Area Senior Citizens, Inc.
3907 Central Avenue
Middletown, Ohio 45044
Cost: $15, You must RSVP--- See attached flyer!
4.
Peace Corps visits Miami University
Monday, February 13th
See attached flyer!
5.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality Symposium:
“Critiquing Culture, Working for Change”
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
(Presented by Wright State University Women’s Center, Women's Studies Program, and African & African American Studies Program, in coalition with the Miami University Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and Women’s Center.)
6.
The 39th Annual Career and Job Fair @ The Ohio State University
Office of Diversity and Inclusion's 39th Annual Career & Job Fair at The Ohio State University, in collaboration with OSU's Student Life. You can help us greatly by posting the attached flyer and pushing the forward button on this e-mail to all on your list-serves who would benefit.
~~THE FAIR~~
The Fair is set for Wednesday, FEBRUARY 1 in the Archie Griffin Ballrooms of the Ohio Union, 1739 North High Street (Columbus), from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All must come 'dressed for success', with plenty of résumés!! The non-OSU per person registration fee is $5.00.
~~PRE/ON-SITE REGISTRATION~~
Several hundred potential fair-goers have already pre-registered via the form attached (also available on the website). Completing the form and forwarding it to us prior to January 27 will enhance the onsite process on February 1. The reg fee is payable at the door. To pre-register, print the form, complete and email to [log in to unmask] - or download the registration form at http://odi.osu.edu/ and to the right under News & Events, click on "2012 ODI Career and Job Fair". Otherwise, registration on-site on February 1 is surely welcomed.
See flyer attached!
7.
GSCA End of Semester Event
Thursday, April 19, 2012 @ 6:00pm-10:00pm
Place: TBA
Khalid Y. Long, M.A.
Dept. of English
President, GSCA
Miami University, Oxford, OH
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Lorraine Hansberry
"Success doesn’t come to you...you go to it"
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