The University Park Student Fee Board met Friday morning to hear allocation request presentations from Penn State’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (CSGD), the Gender Equity Center, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Center (PRCC).
Brian Patchcoski, former director of CSGD, kicked off the board’s meeting with a presentation of his organization’s request.
Patchcoski shared that about 42% of the LGBT youth say the community they live in is not accepting of LGBT people. Depression, family issues, stress, and suicidal thoughts are among the top issues facing members of the LGBT community in Pennsylvania.
CSGD offers numerous programs to LGBTQ+ students at Penn State with the goals of fostering community, visibility, and connection. This programming includes an LGBTQ+ welcome reception, Transgender Awareness Month, and LGBTQ+ History Month.
Follows a trend of pouring money into anti-racism projects
The Mellon Foundation recently announced that 16 projects would receive up to $5 million as part of its Just Futures Initiative.
The funds will “support multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative teams producing solutions-based work that contributes to public understanding of the nation’s racist past and can lead to the creation of socially just futures,” according to a January 13 news release from the organization.
The recipients include Brown University for research on “Reimaging New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom” and the University of Michigan for “Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center: Undoing Inequality.”
The obelisk at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Tree Grove is seen at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on January 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is the one line many white Americans can recite from a Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. speech.
Some conveniently weaponize these words. For instance, in a session last year about racism in her workplace, one white professional relied on this quote as she attempted to convince her colleagues and me that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist. King would’ve wanted us to recognize that all lives matter, regardless of color, she asserted.
Former 5th District candidate Dr. Cameron Webb named to White House COVID-19 Response Team Dr. Cameron Webb has been tapped for a senior role in President-elect Bidenâs response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: WVIR) By CJ Paschall | January 15, 2021 at 3:09 PM EST - Updated January 15 at 10:08 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Dr. Cameron Webb has been tapped for a senior role in President-elect Bidenâs response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webb, a doctor in the University of Virginia Health System and former candidate for 5th District representative, has been named the senior policy advisor for COVID-19 equity. In the role, Dr. Webb would address issues of racial disparities in impact from the virus, and ensuring equitable distribution of the vaccine into the future.
U-M awarded $10M in grants to address racial inequity
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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ANN ARBOR – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative has awarded the University of Michigan two $5 million grants.
Led by professors Stephanie Fryberg and Earl Lewis, the grant money will be used over the next three years to fund projects that address racial inequity.
Fryberg is a professor of psychology and a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy. He is also the director of the Center for Social Solutions.