{"id":82972,"date":"2019-03-04T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82972"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:47:17","slug":"fireside-chat-march-4-2019-winning-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/03\/fireside-chat-march-4-2019-winning-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; March 4, 2019 &#8211; Winning the Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dr. Temika Simmons, co-chair of the Winning the Race conference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xZdwunPNuYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Winning the Race \u2014 Delta State\u2019s Conference on race relations \u2014 is in its sixth year, and is one of our premier events on campus each year. This year\u2019s topic is \u201cMillennials in Motion: Channeling the Winner Within.\u201d Here are some numbers on one of President LaForge&#8217;s favorite events of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022The millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, make up nearly a quarter of the total U.S. population, 30 percent of the voting age population, and almost two-fifths of the working-age population.<br \/>\n\u2022Millennials, totaling more than 75 million, comprise the largest portion of America\u2019s population \u2014 eclipsing the postwar baby boom generation.<br \/>\n\u2022The millennial generation, now 44 percent minority, is the most diverse adult generation in American history.<br \/>\n\u2022More than 500 people attended the Winning the Race conference last year, including students from six local high schools.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, the Delta State University Colloquia \u2013 Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series continues tonight. Mr. Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, will deliver a lecture focusing on, \u201cIn Money We Trust? The American Dollar and Your Everyday Life,\u201d at 6 PM in Jobe Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Scientifique features Dr. AHM Reza, associate professor of biology, and will take place on Wednesday from noon to 1 PM at the GIT Center in Keathley Hall. He will discuss study abroad fieldwork in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>In athletic news, the softball team will host West Georgia this weekend with a doubleheader starting at 2 PM on Saturday and a single game starting at noon on Sunday. Baseball also hosts West Georgia this weekend. Their doubleheader on Saturday is scheduled to begin at 1 PM and the single game on Sunday at 1 PM.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events, and activities, visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dr. Temika Simmons, co-chair of the Winning the Race conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83047,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82972\/revisions\/83047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}