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  Becoming a Student Ready Campus & Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

  Tia McNair

  1st Lecture: Dr. McNair is a co-author of Becoming a student-ready college: A new culture of leadership for student success, which stars with the question, "We talk a lot about students not being college-ready, but why don't we ask what it means to be a student-ready college?

  2nd Lecture: Otterbein is partnering with Columbus City Schools and Westerville City Schools on a Truth,Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative with the goal of breaking down racial hierarchies that lead to inequities in education.

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  International Day of Persons with Disabilities

  Otterbein University

  International Day of Persons with Disabilities, sanctioned by the United Nations, aims to promote understanding of the issues experienced by people with disabilities, celebrate their achievements, and mobilize support for an inclusive community.

  Otterbein held a panel discussion in the library on this topic.

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  International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

  Otterbein University

  The UNiTE to End Violence Against Women campaign, led by UN Women, aims to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women.

  Otterbein's Office of Social Justice & Activism held several events in support of this.

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  Finding Comfort in Discomfort: A Cross-Racial Dialogue on Race and Racism

  Otterbein University

  St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and Otterbein University Office of Social Justice and Activism present the Fall 2018 Symposium with Jim Mulholland and Cherie Bridges Patrick. Includes speakers stories, a reparations workshop and an implicit bias workshop.

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  Social Justice Guest Speaker Series: Does More Immigration Mean More Crime in the United States?

  Ramiro Martinez Ph.D.

  Professor Martinez is a quantitative criminologist. Within that broad arena, his work contributes to violent crime research. His core research agenda asks how does violence vary across ecological settings, and, does violent crime and violent deaths vary across racial/ethnic and immigrant groups? In 2011, he was a recipient of American Society of Criminology DPCC’s Lifetime Achievement for outstanding scholarship in the area of race, crime, and justice. In 2007 he was a recipient of American Society of Criminology DPCC’s Coramae Richey Mann Award for outstanding scholarship in the area of race, crime, and justice. In 2006 he was a recipient of the Florida International University Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and a Visiting Scholar, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Houston. He previously received the American Sociological Association Latina/o Section Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research and a W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship from the National Institute of Justice. Since 2004 he has been a member of the National Science Foundation funded Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice-Network working group at The Ohio State University. At the national level, Martinez serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and recently completed a three-year term as a member of the Sociology Advisory Panel at the National Science Foundation.

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  The Art of Community@ the Library...Making it Happen

  Lois Szudy

  The Erin McKenzie Virtual Welcoming Space at Otterbein Courtright Memorial Library (http://library.otterbein.edu/ErinMcKenzie/index.htm) encourages conversations and facilitates discovery of cultures, experiences, struggles and how we are connected. The welcoming space celebrates the gifts and talents in each of us in hopes of creating inclusive communities where all are valued. Annual events are planned with this vision in mind.