1. April 4-5 – Civil Rides
· Civil Rides is a three-day bicycle ride from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. The purpose of the ride is to raise awareness around persistent rural poverty in America and advocate for racial justice and healing. The inaugural ride begins April 4, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
o April 4 @ Baioni Conference Center
o 6-6:30 pm — “Meet the Riders” Meet & Greet and Reception
o 6:30-7:30 pm – Campus Talk Back and Q&A
o April 5 @ Quad
o 8-8:30 am – Rider Send Off
· DSU Sponsors include DSU 2018 Winning the Race Conference, the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, DSU Diversity Committee, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Linda Stringfellow at linda.civilrides@gmail.com or lstringf@deltastate.edu
2. April 5 – La Tertulia @ 4-5 pm @ Kethley 235
· From Profesora Sylma Ferreira: La Tertulia is a platform or forum that allows students to encounter live and authentic exchanges with other Spanish speaking persons.
· Event sponsors: Division of Languages and Literature, DSU Diversity Committee, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Sylma Ferreira at sferreira@deltastate.edu
3. April 5 – 21st Annual Sammy O. Cranford Memorial Lecture @ 7 pm @ Jobe Hall Auditorium
· The 2018 lecturer is Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia. Berry’s talk is entitled, “Dead Reckoning: What Coroners’ Records Reveal about Life and Death in the Old South.”
· This event is free and open to the public.
· Sponsors: Division of Social Sciences and History, Mississippi Humanities Council, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Chuck Westmoreland at cwestmoreland@deltastate.edu
4. April 10 – Equal Pay Day @ Noon @ The Quad
· From the American Association of University Women: Equal Pay Day is the symbolic day when women’s pay finally “catches up” to the wages that men took home the previous year. The date represents the fact that women working full time, year-round in the United States typically are paid just 80 percent of what men are paid, or a gap of 20 percent.
· DSU Sponsors: American Association of University Women – Cleveland Branch, Omega Psi Phi, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Glendscene Williams at gwillims@deltastate.edu
5. April 12 – La Tertulia @ 4-5 pm @ Kethley 235
· From Profesora Sylma Ferreira: La Tertulia is a platform or forum that allows students to encounter live and authentic exchanges with other Spanish speaking persons.
· Event sponsors: Division of Languages and Literature, DSU Diversity Committee, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Sylma Ferreira at sferreira@deltastate.edu
6. April 19 – La Tertulia @ 4-5 pm @ Kethley 235
· From Profesora Sylma Ferreira: La Tertulia is a platform or forum that allows students to encounter live and authentic exchanges with other Spanish speaking persons.
· Event sponsors: Division of Languages and Literature, DSU Diversity Committee, and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Sylma Ferreira at sferreira@deltastate.edu
7. April 18 – Professional Development Webinar: “Overcome Unconscious Bias: Breakdown Barriers to Equity and Inclusion for Students, Faculty, and Administrators” @ 1 pm @ Gertrude C. Ford Center for Teaching and Learning Lab in Ewing 239
· From the webinar description: “Unconscious bias” affects overall systems and daily interactions at every institution. There are all different types of bias that serve as barriers to equity and inclusion for your students, faculty and staff which can impact overall retention efforts, student and staff satisfaction and graduation rates. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups – these social stereotypes impede productive communities from developing and flourishing. Overcome these barriers by closely examining the struggles your institution is facing so you can help everyone feel welcomed, accepted and important.
· For more information, please contact Michelle Johansen at mjohansen@deltastate.edu
8. April 23 – Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist performance @ 6 pm @ Jobe Hall Auditorium
· Dr. Cathy Shropshire will present a one-woman performance of the life of Mississippi scientist and conservationist Fannye Cook (1889- 1964), the driving force behind the creation of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission (now called the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks) and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Dr. Shropshire, Wildlife Biologist, is retired from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, and served for over 11 years as executive director of the Mississippi Wildlife Federation.
· Copies of Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist, written by Dorothy Shawhan and edited by Marion Barnwell and Libby Hartfield, will be available for purchase and signing from 5-5:45 pm in Jobe Hall.Dorothy Shawhan (1942-2014) began teaching at Delta State University in 1981, serving as chair of the Division of Languages and Literature from 1991-2006. Marion Barnwell is professor emerita from the Division of Languages and Literature at Delta State University. Libby Hartfield, a biologist and science educator, is the retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
· This event is free and open to the public. The performance is appropriate for all ages.
· Sponsors include: DSU College of Arts and Sciences and DSU QEP
· For more information, please contact Michelle Johansen at mjohansen@deltastate.edu
Coming soon…
· April 24 – Culture on the Quad sponsored by DSU Office of Student Affairs
