Link to: 1st Generation Program Workshops

Please visit us at the Center for Community (C4C), third floor, N320!

Spring 2012 Events

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Monday, Jan. 16, 2012
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.

12:00pm            Rally-Pearl Street Mall
1:00pm            March to Boulder High School
1:30pm            Boulder High School
                        (Music, Dance, Human Rights Fair, Speakers, Children’s Activities)

University of Colorado Boulder
Interactive Theatre presents

Echoes of King
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
6:00-7:30pm
Center for Community (C4C)
2249 Willard Loop Dr.
J.D. Abrams Student Cultural Center (3rd fl)

Jan. 26      Wake Up Call Discussion Series: The Color of Wealth (Part 1)
9:30-10:30 a.m., Dennis Small Cultural Center, UMC 457
Co-sponsored by DSCC and the Center for Multicultural Affairs
 Join us for free coffee, tea and breakfast snacks plus stimulating discussion of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Part 1 will focus on how Native Americans have often been “land rich and dirt poor” because of the challenges they have had to face with asset building. Reading not required for participation. Discussion geared to the graduate level, but all are welcome.
Facilitator: Jane Elvins, Center for Multicultural Affairs

Feb. 9       Wake Up Call Discussion Series: The Color of Wealth (Part 2)
9:30-10:30 a.m., Dennis Small Cultural Center, UMC 457
Co-sponsored by DSCC and the Center for Multicultural Affairs
 Join us for free coffee, tea and breakfast snacks plus stimulating discussion of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Part 2 will focus on how African Americans have too often been denied wealth justice because of the ways they have been oppressed by laws, policies and practices forged in blood. Reading not required for participation. Discussion geared to the graduate level, but all are welcome.
Facilitator: Jane Elvins, Center for Multicultural Affairs

Feb. 9       Crossing Borders Through Books : The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
12:00-1:00, C4C Room S341
Sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Affairs
Join us for light lunch and thought-provoking discussion of this New York Times best-seller which tells the true story of how a poor African American tobacco farmer’s cells were taken and used without her knowledge or consent for critically important medical research. Her cells are still alive though she’s been dead for 60 years.
Co-facilitators: Cleo Estrada and Jane Elvins

Feb. 10       Graduate Teaching Program Workshop: Classroom Power Dynamics and Cultural Differences 
1:00-2:00p.m., ATLAS 200
How comfortable people are with hierarchy and its inherent power divisions can vary significantly according to their cultural identities. We will explore the range of power-distance orientations observed across cultures, as well as challenges and implications emerging from those differences in university classroom settings.
Facilitator: Jane Elvins, Center for Multicultural Affairs

Mar. 1        Wake Up Call Discussion Series: The Color of Wealth (Part 3)
9:30-10:30 a.m., Dennis Small Cultural Center, UMC 457
Co-sponsored by DSCC and the Center for Multicultural Affairs
Join us for free coffee, tea and breakfast snacks plus stimulating discussion of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Part 3 will focus on how Latinos in the U.S. have been held back by misleading, media-driven perceptions about how diverse they are and the pivotal roles they have played in U.S. history. Reading not required for participation. Discussion geared to the graduate level, but all are welcome.
Facilitator: Jane Elvins, Center for Multicultural Affairs

Mar. 8           Crossing Borders Through Books:  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
12:00-1:00, C4C S341
Sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Affairs
Join us for light lunch and thought-provoking discussion of this well-known collection of short stories by Sherman Alexie on which the film Smoke Signals was based. The stories are a mixture of outrageous humor and heart-breaking realities of life on the reservations, as lived by Alexie and his characters.
Co-facilitators: Cleo Estrada and Jane Elvins

Drop-in Academic Advising with A&S in CMA!
Have a quick question?  Academic advisors from the College of Arts& Sciences will be available at the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) to work with students on a ‘drop-in' basis every week for the remainder of the semester!
Location: Office N339, within the CMA Suite -N320 (C4C) building

DATES TIME ADVISOR
Tuesday, January 31 2-3 p.m. Euphemia Williams
Wednesday, February 1 1-2 p.m. Ken Bonetti
Tuesday, February 7 2-3 p.m. Ken Bonetti
Wednesday, February 8 1-2 p.m. Alison Minton
Tuesday, February 14 2-3 p.m. Deanna Fierman
Wednesday, February 15 1-2 p.m. David Rogalski
Tuesday, February 21 2-3 p.m. Euphemia Williams
Wednesday, February 22 1-2 p.m. David Rogalski
Tuesday, February 28 2-3 p.m. David Rogalski
Wednesday, February 29 1-2 p.m. Alison Minton
Tuesday, March 6 TBD MAJORS Fair in the UMC – details coming soon!
Wednesday, March 7 1-2 p.m. Jia Shi
Tuesday, March 13 2-3 p.m. Janice Oldroyd
Wednesday, March 14 1-2 p.m. Alison Minton
Tuesday, March 20 2-3 p.m. Sarah Matsuda
Wednesday, March 21 1-2 p.m. Jia Shi
Tuesday, April 3 2-3 p.m. Janice Oldroyd
Wednesday, April 4 1-2 p.m. Ken Bonetti
Tuesday, April 10 2-3 p.m. Euphemia Williams
Wednesday, April 11 1-2 p.m. Sarah Matsuda
Tuesday, April 17 2-3 p.m. Janice Oldroyd
Wednesday, April 18 1-2 p.m. Jia Shi
Tuesday, April 24 2-3 p.m. Deanna Fierman
Wednesday, April 25 1-2 p.m. Ken Bonetti
Tuesday, May 1 2-3 p.m. Deanna Fierman
Wednesday, May 2 1-2 p.m. Sarah Matsuda

Need a serious place to study?
Get your study on in the CMA Study Zone!

Dates: tbd

While preparing for finals you will have access to:

• Healthy snacks
• Laptops and Group Study rooms (1st come-1st serve)
• Print your final paper or report
• Comfy chairs and couches
• C4C Dining Services located on the 1st and 2nd floors

CMA Graduation Recognition

CMA Graduation Recognition
Friday, May 11, 2012
10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Center for Community, Dirks West Patio

CMA cordially invites all May/Summer graduates to a reception in honor of your accomplishments.  We hope that you and your family/guest(s) will stop by to join us for refreshments,  pictures and to be recognized for your achievements!  Please RSVP at 303-492-5667 by May 3.