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Event |
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5/13 |
Diversity Action Hiring and Retention Team (DAHRT) Open Campus Workshop
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) | Multicultural Center SM 228
Join the Diversity Action Hiring and Retention Team (DAHRT) for a discussion of recruiting for faculty diversity, retaining new colleagues and maintaining a welcoming departmental workplace. Our goal is to facilitate collegial discussion of diversity issues within Portland States departments and programs. We will gladly join you as you talk about diversity in your unit, discuss your retention plan for a new colleague, or create plans to maintain a welcoming department workplace and to help avoid practices that inadvertently act against building faculty diversity.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please RSVP via email to opdi@pdx.edu. |
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5/21 |
4th Annual PSU Diversity Awards
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 (3:00 PM – 6:30 PM) | Smith Memorial Ballroom
Please join Interim President Michael Reardon and Portland State's Diversity Action Council for...
The Fourth Annual
Portland State University Diversity Awards
Keynote Speaker: Robert Jensen
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
(Please RSVP to opdi@pdx.edu).
The Diversity Action Council wishes to recognize one faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student, and one graduate student of the University who exemplify and honor the President’s Diversity Initiative, which focuses on the following:
- Enhancing the institutional environment, curriculum, and scholarship;
- Increasing numbers of students from under-represented groups;
- Increasing numbers of persons from under-represented groups in faculty, staff, and administration; and
- Strengthening connections with diverse communities in the region.
For more information on the Diversity Action Council, Please visit: www.diversity.pdx.edu
Brief Bio of Robert Jensen:
Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.
In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. His recent work has addressed questions of race through a critique of privilege and institutionalized racism.
In addition to teaching and research, Jensen has published five books and regularly writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. |
