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A series of events about free speech and hate speech will take place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in October, hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. A town hall meeting and workshops for students, faculty and staff will address the campus community’s thoughts, questions and concerns about free speech and hate speech across higher education and at UAB. The events are part of ODEI's Critical Conversations series.
The town hall will take place Monday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. in Heritage Hall Room 102. David Hudson, Jr., First Amendment specialist and renowned author and speaker, will serve as moderator. Following the town-hall, the university will host workshops led by Drs. Lara H. Schwartz and Andrea Brenner on October 16 and 17 – two workshops for students and one for faculty and staff.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host Dr. Yusef Salaam, formerly of the “Central Park Five,” now known as the “Exonerated Five,” during an intimate conversation on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Hill Student Center Ballroom. Dr. Salaam will sit down for a one-on-one talk and Q&A with Paulette Patterson Dilworth, PhD, vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UAB.
Michelle M. Allen, Ed.D., joins the University of Alabama at Birmingham as the Diversity Education Director in the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI). She is a native of Atlanta, Ga., and completed her Bachelor of Business Administration from Savannah State University and earned her M.Ed. in Higher Education and Doctorate of Education in Cultural Curriculum Studies from Georgia Southern University.
The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a $1.25 million ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), aimed at improving gender equity in STEM fields. The three-year grant will build on prior NSF ADVANCE initiatives at the university.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host an open forum, “Sharing Difficult Histories” to examine the redefining and reshaping of the history of the United States’ difficult past. The conversation is part of the UAB Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s Critical Conversations Series.
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