Hispanic Heritage Month

(Sept. 15th – Oct. 15th)

WHAT HUE ARE YOU? [Student Diversity and Inclusion Programming]

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: EHHP Alumni Center Facilitator: Dr. Anthony Greene, African

American Studies Program

This program will give students an opportunity to

discuss the topic of Colorism, share their opinions

and experiences, and gain a better understanding

of how the issue affects various ethnic groups.

STEREOTPYE JEOPARDY [Student Diversity and Inclusion Programming]

Date: Friday, October 23, 2015

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Stern Center, Rm. 409A/B Facilitator: Ameerah Mills, Upward Bound Coun-

selor

Using the Jeopardy game-show format, this

program is an interactive way for students to learn

about internal biases and discover how hidden

assumptions and prejudices affect us all.

Critical Issues in Diversity and Inclusion:

A Conversation on Access, Retention, Aca-

demic Success, and the Latino Student

Achievement Gap in the U.S.A. Speaker: Dr. Fernando Colon-Navarro,

Professor of Law and Director of L.L.M &

Immigration Development, Texas Southern Univer-

sity-Thurgood Marshall School of Law (Houston,

Texas)

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015

Time: 6:30—8:30p.m.

Location: EHHP Alumni Center

Hispanic Heritage Month

(Sept. 15th – Oct. 15th)

2015 SPIRIT Day Rally and Candle Light

Vigil: LGBT BLACK LIVES MATTER

Keynote Speaker: Patrisse Cullors, Queer

Woman of Color and Co-Founder, National

Black Lives Matter Movement

Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015

Time: 6 p.m. Student Meet & Greet

7 p.m. Keynote Address

8 p.m. Candlelight Ceremony

Location: Stern Center Ballroom

This event is co-sponsored by Office of Institutional

Diversity, Cougar Activity Board, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, We Are Family and Girls Rock Charles-

ton.

Hispanic Heritage Month

(Sept. 15th – Oct. 15th)

Critical Issues in Diversity and Inclusion:

“Minority Student Achievement Gap and

Success”

Dr. Steve Perry’s Education Truth Tour

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2015

Location: Stern Center Ballroom

Time: 9:30 a.m.—Meet & Greet

10 a.m.—Keynote Address

Book signing following program

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) and Charleston County School District

(CCSD) .

Native American Heritage Month

Critical Issues in Diversity and

Inclusion: Film Viewing

“Up Heartbreak Hill”

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Location: RSS, Rm., 235

Time: 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Up Heartbreak Hill, is a chronicle of one

fateful year in the lives of two talented kids

who must figure out not only how to be-

come young adults, but what it means to be

both Native and modern in a town where

only 30% of kids graduate from high

school. The hopes and heartbreaks of

senior year of high school comprise a

defining part of teenage life and lore in

America. Up Heartbreak Hill is a poignant

account of how these two teenagers man-

age a dramatic coming of age under the

long shadow of a troubled history.

OID’s Student Diversity and Inclusion

Appreciation Hour

Date: Friday, December 4, 2015

Location: RSS, Rm. 241

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.