AVP Morris attended faculty meetings to update on actions from student petition
Residential Life Staff training offered in de-escalating difficult in-person situations
Training offered in de-escalating difficult in-person situations
Campus Safety workshop held to review Title IX and Discriminatory Harassment
AVP Morris shared updates to equity and diversity programming and highlighted ways for students and faculty to be involved
Discussions about race and other forms of diversity included with semester long New Student Orientation and in First Year Seminars
February 2021
The College announced the appointment of Jeffrey Maher to the newly established position of Program Manager for Title IX, Bias and Discriminatory Harassment. Reporting directly to the President, the Mr. Maher is responsible for compliance, complaint resolution, policy development, and training across all aspects of Title IX, sexual misconduct, discrimination, discriminatory harassment, and bias relating to all
May 11, 2021
Left to Right: Camila Sanz Rodriguez, Paula Durant, Oscar Munoz Franco, Gabriela Cardona, Pedro Paez, Semon Randall, Ellieanna Vicente, Sho Hashioka, Valerie Mamish. Not pictured: Clara Mbasisya, Tora Yamada, Norma Huembes, Gap (Suthasinee) Bardis, and Nodira Tursunova.
Each spring, students with international ties are celebrated and honored at the annual Flag Raising Ceremony. At this year’s event, 14 students raised 13 flags, which are the most countries represented at any ceremony in the event’s history. These nations included Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Syria, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.
After Arrests of Black Students at Keene State, Faculty Demand Action
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Nearly 60 faculty members have signed on to a letter asking Keene State College administration for a public apology and financial restitution to two Black former students who were arrested in March of 2020, New Hampshire Public Radio reported.
The two students, who were engaged, were charged with simple assault, resisting arrest and trespassing.
When one student, Ndeye Badiane, was sick and vomiting, her fiancé, Tyler Clavelle, came to care for her. Badiane said she smoked marijuana in her dorm room, attracting the attention of a hall director. The director came to the room, noticing Clavelle, who was not allowed in the residence hall over spring break because he did not live there. Clavelle looked through trash to find the pipe and hand it over to the hall director and then used the women’s restroom to wash his hands. Clavelle is nonbinary but uses he/him pronouns.
The hall’s director noticed the marijuana smell and called campus security for support.
When she came to Badiane’s room, she realized that Badiane wasn’t alone. Her fiancé, Tyler Clavelle, didn’t have permission to be in the dorm during spring break because he didn’t live there, but Clavelle said he was there to take care of his sick fiancée.
“I’m standing right here in the middle of the room, in the middle of the doorway, with a remote,” he said. “Why would I be hiding? Why would she be lying?”
Things got really tense when Clavelle went to use the women’s restroom to wash his hands, after searching through bags of trash to find the pipe and handing it over the hall director.