Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

CREATE! Micro-Grant Virtual Exhibit Launches Displaying Winning Projects

December 10, 2020

The CREATE! Micro-Grant Program supported the launch of 12 student projects that analyze and respond to racial injustice and the struggles brought on by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These projects, ranging from interpretive dance and musical performances to traditional Anishinaabe quill work, videos, podcasts, personal essays, and poetry, can now be viewed online through the CREATE! Micro-Grant Virtual Exhibit.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Exhibition / News / Staff

Critical Race Studies Artist-in-Residence to Reimagine MSU’s Sparty Statue

November 24, 2020

As the 2020-2021 College of Arts & Letters’ Artist-in-Residence of Critical Race Studies, Young Joon Kwak is using multidisciplinary artistry to examine MSU’s Sparty statue in order to understand its deepest details and what lies beyond its symbolic skin.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / News / Programs

Integrative Arts and Humanities (IAH) Offers New and Innovative Courses

November 20, 2020

Delivering general education curriculum in the arts and humanities requires some ingenuity to put the human experience into context. Faculty and instructors who teach in MSU’s Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (CISAH) in the College of Arts & Letters continually meet this challenge by taking innovative approaches to teaching essential subjects. “The way we teach the…

Award / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Exhibition / News / Student

Who Is a Citizen? Contest Winners Announced

November 19, 2020

The Creative Writing and Film Studies programs within the Department of English held a literary and video contest this past spring calling for student submissions of short prose, poetry, screenwriting, and video works exploring evolving notions of citizenship in the United States by asking students to respond to the question, “Who Is a Citizen?” The works submitted focused on themes relevant to…

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / News / Research

Taking Up Space as a Scholar, Activist, and Visionary Co-Builder of the New AAAS Department

November 18, 2020

Scholar, author, activist, and visionary builder, these are just a few words to describe Tamura Lomax, Foundational Associate Professor, who came to Michigan State University to work alongside Ruth Nicole Brown, Inaugural Chair, to envision and build the new vanguard Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS). Good timing and the extraordinary opportunity of creating a new department with…

Alumni / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Event / Faculty / News / Research

CAL in the Classroom

November 16, 2020

Alumni and retired faculty and staff had the opportunity to attend a virtual event on November 7 where attendees got an insider’s look at the research and education of MSU’s College Arts & Letters while networking with fellow alumni, faculty, and students.

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MSU African American and African Studies Seeks ‘Technologies of Living for Survival Into Wellness’

November 13, 2020

The latest segment of MSU Today explores the vision, mission, and values of Michigan State University’s Department of African American and African Studies with Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, Inaugural Chairperson and Professor of AAAS, Dr. Tamura Lomax, Foundational Associate Professor of AAAS, Dr. Kristie Dotson, Executive Academic Advisor to AAAS and Professor of Philosophy, and Dr. April Baker-Bell, continuing member of the transition team and Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education.

Alumni / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / News

Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote

November 2, 2020

Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote highlights how graphic design has been implemented as a powerful tool in politics with poster designs running parallel to activism and social change for over 100 years.  Professors Salchow MacArthur and Skolos discuss with guests the case study of the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community and diversity through poster design.  This Conversation is moderated by 2020 MSU alum, Sarah Davis.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Event / Exhibition / Faculty / News

Goeringer Installation Featured in Science Gallery Detroit Exhibit

November 2, 2020

Professor Lyn Goeringer’s installation, Witnesses, is featured in the Science Gallery Detroit’s current exhibit, Future Present: Design in a Time of Urgency, which runs through December 11, 2020, and is open to the public. A composer and intermedia artist who works with video, sound, and light, Goeringer is an Assistant Professor of Composition in the College of Music and of Film Studies in the Department of English.

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COVID-19 / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / News / Student

Student Combines Love of Fashion and Medicine to Create Mask-Making Business

October 30, 2020

Maddy Eischer, a junior double major in Apparel and Textile Design and Molecular Genetics, is using the extra time during the pandemic to make a difference and to help her community. “I have always had a passion for medicine and a talent for art and sewing,” she said. “I have struggled with ways to combine my interests, but the pandemic…