11-7: This Light of Ours — Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.
Human Rights Gallery - 2nd Floor
museum admission ticket required

11:30, 1:30, 5:30: How To Start a Revolution — 90 min. film on Gene Sharp — First screening in Utah
The Leonardo Auditorium - 3rd Floor
free

3:15: Human Rights and Civil Disobedience Panel
The Leonardo Auditorium - 3rd Floor
free

4:30: Non-Violent Activism — An Introduction by Peaceful Uprising
The Leonardo Auditorium - 3rd Floor
free

For more information, visit: http://www.theleonardo.org/current_news/calendar

Dialogue on Women's Issues with Latina Women

November 28, 2011

Are you involved /interested in community issues? Is your voice heard? We invite you to join us for an important discussion on

education, health, economic and political/social issues.

Date: November 28, 2011

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Place: Horizonte Instruction and Training Center

1234 Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, room 232.

Conducted in Spanish. Open to the public.

Pacific Islander High School Conference

November 8, 2011

Future U of U students, learn about the University of Utah by attending the High School Conference.

Freedom's Promise

November 8, 2011

KUED TV looks at youth activism.

Mayor's Office of Diversity Affairs: Diversity Dinner 2011

October 19, 2011

We bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds promote understanding | increase positive interactions within the community | build respect for our differences share a meal | share experiences. Please visit www.diversity.slco.org to register

"ALL SHE CAN" film screening at Sorenson Unity Center

October 13, 2011

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc. (University of Utah Chapter) and the Sorenson Unity Center in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month present:

"All She Can" Screening (an award-winning 2011 Sundance Film about a girl’s determination to get into college) and Panel Discussion

Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, UT

Thursday, October 13 · 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

FREE & open to the public!

Less than half of Latino students ever graduate from high school in Utah. Even though Latinos make up 13% of Utah's population, they only make up 6.5% of the student body at the University of Utah, the state's flagship institution.

Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc. (http://www.kappadeltachi.org/) serves the community in hopes that someday all students will have access to a higher education and underserved students are equally represented at state colleges and universities.

"All She Can" trailer: http://youtu.be/4MX0BluP93A

About the film: "You hear the quick-pitch synopsis -- Luz (Corina Calderon), a 17-year-old powerlifter, hopes to win a college scholarship and escape her small Texas town -- and think you know how this movie goes. You'd be wrong, as director Amy Wendel (who co-wrote with Daniel Meisel, her husband) takes the story beyond the cliches of the inspiring sports drama, to explore the dead-end lives trapped in a hard-luck town. Calderon gives a performance loaded with fire and heart, and deserves to become a star." - The Salt Lake Tribune (Jan. 23, 2011)

All She Can Web site: http://www.benavidesborn.com/

The New York Times review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/movies/all-she-can-review.html

3rd Annual Breast Cancer Conference

October 4, 2011

The conference is scheduled for Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. at the IHC Doty Educational Center in Murray to raise awareness about the importance of early breast cancer detection among the Spanish-speaking community. Guest speakers will offer information on risk factors and other cancer-related information, Special Guest Miss Latina USA will talk about inner beauty, a panel of cancer survivors will answer questions, free or low-cost mammogram appointments will be made available, and a light dinner will be served. For more information please call Alliance Community Services at 801-265-1111.

www.alliance-community.org

Japanese Food Bazaar

October 1, 2011

Food Served from 1:00 - 8:00; Sushi, Teriyaki, Gyoza, Beef Bowl, Tempura, Chapel Tours, Raffle, Silent Auction Baskets, Gifts for Sale. Public Welcome!

Utah Asian Chamber September Luncheon

September 29, 2011

If you own a business or are thinking of starting one, this is one luncheon you don’t want to miss! We will tour the Miller Business Resource Center at the Salt Lake Community College and learn about the wide range of services and support they provide to entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Salt Lake Real Somos Foundation Night

September 28, 2011

The Somos Foundation in collaboration with Zions Bank announces Real Salt Lake

Somos Foundation Night Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Discount tickets to the Real Salt Lake vs

Chicago Fire are available at the Real Salt Lake ticket outlets, online or the Utah Hispanic Chamber of

Commerce website www.utahhcc.com - mention the “Somos Foundation” and a portion of the ticket price

will go to the Somos Foundation Scholarship.

Viva Frida! Celebration of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

September 16, 2011

Viva Frida! 5-week celebration of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo begins Sept. 16!

Rape Recovery Center Executive Director Position

September 7, 2011

The Rape Recovery Center is seeking a visionary leader for the position of Executive Director. A director to carry on the 35-year tradition of excellence and service to survivors of sexual violence in our community; to lead staff and volunteers in our mission to empower those victimized by sexual violence through advocacy, crisis intervention and therapy; and to educate the community about the cause, impact and prevention of sexual violence.

Third Annual Tribune Dinner of the Pastor France A. Davis Scholarship Fund

August 26, 2011

The Pastor France A. Davis Scholarship Fund will hold its third annual Tribute Dinner on Friday, August 26, 2011. Education philanthropist, Mrs. Beverley Sorenson, will be honored. Her generous support and tireless commitment have had an exceptional impact on Utah’s diverse communities. The dinner will be held at 6:30 pm at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel Ballroom, 150 West, 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Community Dialogues on Women's Issues

August 16, 2011

For questions or information, contact Yolanda Francisco-Nez, Coordinator Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office of Diversity & Human Rights, 801-535-7734

Immigration and Antidiscrimination in the Workplace

August 2, 2011

The Salt Lake City Mayor's Office presents an anti-discrimination workshop.

Somos Scholarship Foundation Accepting Applications

August 1, 2011

The Somos Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for teh 2011-12 year. The deadline is September 15, 2011.

Campus Diversity News

Student Employment Opportunity - Due May 3rd

May 3, 2012

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center
Student Employment Opportunity

Position: Student Staff
LGBT Resource Center, 409 Union

The LGBT Resource Center is seeking a student who is highly motivated and enthusiastic about queer issues on campus. As a paid student staff, this position will assist with maintaining the office on a daily basis as well as ongoing and annual coordination of center programs/events. This position reports directly to the director of the LGBTRC. This position will coordinate the Safe Zone Program, the Center’s Fabulous Fridays, and will also assist as needed with the other programming and events listed below.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Perform general office duties, such as answering phones, greeting guest, and maintaining library.
• Gather and assemble information for various events and reports.
• Foster working relationships with students, staff, faculty and community.
• Be a public face for the Center and for the University.
• Maintain all databases of people, photos, and offices/departments.
• Foster working relationships with students, staff, faculty and community.
• Attend weekly staff meetings and supervision meetings.
• Attend weekly supervision meeting.
• Table for the Center both on and off campus.
• Coordinate Safe Zone, coordinate Fabulous Fridays, includes volunteer coordination and tracking.
• Present for on and off campus classes and events.
• Assist with Silent Auction.
• Other duties as assigned.

Programming involvement consists of:
• Mentoring Programs
• Safe Zone Training
• Fabulous Fridays

Event involvement consists of:
• LGBTQA New Student Orientation
• Pride Week at the U
• Transgender Awareness month
• Awareness Campaign/Day of Silence
• World AIDS Day
• Bisexual Awareness month
• Awareness Campaign/Ally Social
• Lavender Graduation
• Utah Pride Festival

Required Qualifications: This position has extensive public contact so excellent customer service skills and communication skills as well as the ability to work with individuals from

Read-a-thon

April 21, 2012

Comcast Cares Day is a day of volunteerism for Comcast employees, their families and community volunteers. This year, in addition to other volunteer projects, special Read-a-thons will be held at the project sites listed below, and are geared directly toward our younger volunteers. Adult and teenage volunteers are needed to help staff the Read-A-Thons, and all participants will receive a free breakfast, free lunch and a free t-shirt!

Midvale Middle School – 7852 S Pioneer Street, Midvale, UT
Meadowlark Elementary School – 497 N. Morton Drive, Salt Lake City, UT
Old Granite High School – 3305 S 500 East, South Salt Lake, UT

Comcast Cares Day schedule on April 21:
7:00 am - 8:00 am: Registration/Breakfast
8:00 am - 12:00 pm: Read-a-thon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch

For questions or to register, please call Sarah Loughlin at 801-401-3280 or fax the attached registration form to 801-401-3290. You can also mail the form to Sarah Loughlin at 9602 S 300 W, Sandy, UT 84070.

Registration preferred by April 2

BSU: A Change Has Come!

March 19, 2012

3/19/2012 - 12:30pm - Common Room

Please join us at our General Meeting on Monday, March 19TH at 12:30pm in the Union Common Room as we discuss:
- Constitutional changes
- Our search for new student leadership
- Our impact on campus

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED

"Strategies for Effective Mentoring of 21st Century STEM Students"

March 19, 2012

by Saundra Y. McGuire, Louisiana State University

Monday, March 19th @ 4:30pm
Aline Skaggs Auditorium (ASB 220)

Effective mentoring has long been recognized as important for success in professional and academic environments. Mentors are often assigned to persons entering a new academic or professional environment, but are seldom provided the training to ensure that the mentoring relationship will be most beneficial to the protégé and to the mentor.

This interactive workshop will discuss strategies for effective mentoring of today’s students, and will contrast the behaviors of masterful vs misguided mentors. Additionally techniques for producing proactive vs. problematic protégés will be discussed. The discussion will help mentors at all levels become more effective at guiding protégés to success.

Saundra Y. McGuire, Ph.D became the Director of the Center for Academic Success in the Fall of 1999. Most recently she spent twelve years at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY as director of the Center for Learning and Teaching and Sr. Lecturer in Chemistry. She writes chemistry study guides, problem solving guides, and review books for Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Company.

"Carry Your Culture on Your Canoe": Religion, Race, and Sustainable Self-determination in Hawai'i

February 28, 2012

February 28, 2012
1:00 pm

William Browning Building
Room 617

Just Like Us: A Celebration of Culture and Comedy

February 28, 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
7:00 p.m.

Free
UFMA Dumke Auditorium

Undergraduate Research- Why It's Important for U

February 23, 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012
2:00 pm
235 Union (Lounge)

Guest Speakers:
Jill L. Baeder & Silvia Ibarra Garcia

Beyond Kumbaya: Everyday Advocacy

February 21, 2012

What does it mean to “help” others?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Community Meeting Room (155)
Goodwill Humanitarian Building, 395 South 1500 East

This presentation explores how sincere and earnest advocacy can lead to ambitious claims of making a difference. Feminist activists may lose sight of the goals of equity and become blind to or ignore others’ perspectives. Dr. Lather will offer alternative ways of asking questions outside the familiar and usual rhetoric to get to the heart of advocacy against sexism.

Patti Lather is a professor in the Cultural Foundations in Education Program at Ohio State University, where she teaches qualitative research in education, feminist methodology and gender, and education. She is the author of four books: Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern; Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, co-authored with Chris Smithies; Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science; and Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy. She is a 2009 inductee of the American Educational Research Association Fellows.

All events in this series are free and open to the public
All events offer 2 NASW-endorsed CEUs
For more information, please call (801) 581-8455

Lunch & Lecture - revol U tion

February 21, 2012

February 21, 2012
12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Panorama East , Union Building
200 Central Campus Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84112

revol U tion is a student group committed to ending sexual violence on campus. revol U tion produces and facilitates workshops to assist students in understanding how they can prevent sexual assaults from occurring. We utilize theater and group discussion to encourage an open dialogue and safe learning

Please RSVP with Bianica Yellowhair bianica.yellowhair@utah.edu Or Call (801) 581-7018

The Annual BSU High School Conference

February 16, 2012

The University of Utah’s Black Student Union Presents:
"Transcending the Status Quo"
The Annual BSU High School Conference

"Transcending the Status Quo"

-Informative Workshops
-Dynamic Speakers
-Scholarship and Financial Aid Info
- Talent Show/Cultural Expression
-Time to Network with Faculty, Staff, and Students

February 16, 2012
A. Ray Olpin University Union
8:00am – 2:00pm

BUSINESS CASUAL DRESS CODE WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED!!!!

Snack & Substance - Feleti Matagi

January 24, 2012

3:00—4:00 pm

Feleti is the Director of Undergraduate Diversity Scholarships in the Office for Student Equity & Diversity.
Come learn more about how to search and apply for scholarships.

Please RSVP with Bianica Yellowhair bianica.yellowhair@utah.edu
Or Call (801) 581-7018

African Americans in WWII

January 19, 2012

Chances are, you know about the people who broke the sound barrier, but how much do you know about Charles Hall?

In 1943, while flying over the coast of Sicily in his P-40 Warhawk, he downed a German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter and with it, all the misconceptions of what an African American pilot was capable of.

Join us for a wonderful discussion about Charles Hall and the Tuskegee Airmen’s determination to not settle for being as good as other pilots, but prove they were even better.

Our presenter, Colonel (retired) Steve Hall, will absolutely entertain and educate you as he discusses the challenges, sacrifices and successes of African Americans and their massive contributions to the World War 2 effort.

We hope you’ll join us.

Thursday, January 19, 2012.
HPER E Rm. 206
1:10-3:00
Air Force ROTC Det 850, University of Utah

Contact Maj Mike Hawkins to RSVP or with Questions
(801) 581-6293
Michael.hawkins@afrotc.utah.edu

Diverse Transfer Student Resource Symposium

December 13, 2011

Date: Tuesday, December 13th
Time: 12:00pm - 2:30pm
Where: Union Parlor A

Come learn about resources through the Office for Student Equity and Diversity:
-Getting the most from academic advising
-Strategies for transfer student success
-Scholarship opportunities, support & more...

*RSVP REQUIRED

Contact: Luciano Marzulli
Phone: 801-587-9567
Email: l.marzulli@utah.edu

*light lunch provided

Transgender Awareness Month Film

November 29, 2011

Film: Two Spirits

Oplin Union Theater

The LGBT Resource Center

6:00-8:00 p.m.

801-587-7973

After there will be a critical discussion of intersecting identities and white co-opting.

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