Social Class on Campus: Webinar and Discussion
Join colleagues from all over campus – all employees welcome – for a discussion of Social Class on Campus to explore the unspoken impact it has and to improve inclusivity.
When: Wednesday, January 18, 1-2:30 Webinar; 2:30-3:30 Discussion
Where: LI 124 in the FPLC and via Adobe Connect
If you are not attending in person:
- Go to https://paperclipcomm.adobeconnect.com/inclusivity011823
- Type your first and last name into the Name field
- Type in the Room passcode Impact011823
- Click Enter Room
Discussion from 2:30-3:30 in person in LI 124 in the FPLC and Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/97744407990
Note that the Webinar and the Discussion are two different remote connection links.
If you attend in person, light refreshments will be served.
Today higher education institutions are increasingly diverse environments. While there are many efforts to engage the identities of race, religion, gender, gender identities, and sexual orientations, many campuses are slow to actively engage how “class matters.”
Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class? Why is it taboo? Why do people often address class through coded terminology? How does discriminatory language, or conscious or unconscious derogatory attitudes, or the anticipation of such behaviors, impact those from poor and working class backgrounds when they straddle class? How is class about more than the money one makes? What does it mean to have an institutional culture that has unwritten rules about dress, music, language, food and activities that success some folks are a better fit than others?
More information here: https://mnstate.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8655902