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Additional Event Calendars

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.鈥� - Jane Goodall

JIDE Events

National Day of Racial Healing

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

麻豆传媒 joins colleges and universities across the country with activities, events, and strategies that promote cooperation, connections, compassion, ethical practices and a sense of belonging. We invite you to join in the commemoration.

  • 9:00 a.m. Proclamation Presentations 鈥� University Union 110
  • 2:00 p.m. Healing Circle 鈥� University Union, Lincoln Room
  • 6:00 p.m. Change Our Language, Change Our Politics 鈥niversity Union, Sandburg Theatre

All events are free and ALL are invited and welcome to attend!

Additional information on the events and the NDORH can be found at the 麻豆传媒 National Day of Racial Healing webpage.

Kinder Mondays: Your Brand Club

Monday, January 27, 2025 鈥� 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. 鈥� JIDE office: University Union, Suite 110

Leathernecks don鈥檛 sit on the porch, they run with the big dogs!

Let the star that you are shine even brighter! Be a big dog! Stop by and grab free inspirational tips and swag on enhancing your personal brand while supplies last.

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Ongoing Programming

Kudos!

Positive reinforcement is the act of rewarding a positive behavior in order to encourage it to happen again in the future. Let鈥檚 recognize and give kudos to individuals making a difference when it comes to helping individuals that come from backgrounds different from their own. Let鈥檚 reinforce the good. Send a description of the situation on-campus or in town and if you have their permission, the name of the person, for consideration for inclusion and recognition on the JIDE webpage to JIDE@wiu.edu.

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Snack & Chat: 麻豆传媒 - A Community of Cultures

Learn what is real and what is fake from people about their culture. Expand your understanding, social networks, and growth as an individual and leader within a multinational campus and world.

All are welcome and invited to get to know new people. Bring your own meal!

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.,聽 Location: University Union Room 110

  • January 28 - African Community
  • February 4 - Islamic Community
  • February 11 - Mixed Race Community
  • February 18 - Caribbean Community
  • February 26 - Jewish Community
  • March 4 - Asian & Indian Community
Unfiltered

At Residence Halls: Meetings are being organized with RA鈥檚 to host floor/hall meetings with residents.

At 麻豆传媒 QC: Meetings are being planned for the QC Campus.

Honest talk and fearless conversation about what鈥檚 going well and what can be done better at 麻豆传媒. We want to hear your voices unfiltered by organizations, associates, and others. If you are open to a dialogue of mutual respect and inquiry with the goal of moving 麻豆传媒 forward, join us for this meeting.

Warning: If your mind is stuck or closed and you can鈥檛 listen to different interpretations and alternative opinions, you are not ready at this time to attend this meeting and we wish you well at a different meeting.

In the Know

Federal Report on Black Girls and School Discipline

Black girls in grades K-12 in all 50 states receive more frequent and more severe discipline in school than other girls according to a September 2024 report by the Government Accounting Office. You are encouraged to to gain a better understanding of the challenges that some 麻豆传媒 students have faced and a better appreciation of their resilience. Let鈥檚 use this knowledge to make change and improve our world.

Stereotype Threat

Did you know that an individual may perform at a lower level than of which they are capable due to the fear of conforming to a negative stereotype about who they are and their background? The theory of Stereotype Threat has been around since 1995. A few of the resources available to create greater awareness, reduce its effect, and improve performance in the workplace, the classroom, and personal relationships are provided below:

Opening Books and Minds

A big thank you is given to Randall E. Faust, D.M.A. 麻豆传媒 Illinois University Emeritus Professor of Music for his Sept. 6, 2024 donation of the following books to the JIDE Office library:

Wheeler, Rev. Kenneth (2023). US: The Resurrection of American Terror. Precocity Press.

Evangelical Lutheran pastor Kenneth Wheeler takes readers on a seven-decades-long journey that lays bare the terror and pain of being Black in America. From his childhood in the Deep South of Mississippi under the trauma of Jim Crow segregation to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wheeler steadily holds up a mirror to a nation drowning in a rising tide of white supremacy. He calls on all of us to turn away from the false idol of white supremacy and reclaim the fullness of what it means to be people created in the image of God. (Description excerpted from the book cover)

Harris, Kamala (2019). The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. Penguin Books.

The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Kamala Harris, recons with the big challenges we face together. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we confront the great work of our day. (Description excerpted from the book cover)

African Americans on the Macomb Police Department in 1961
Macomb Police Officers Bill Thorpe and O.J. Clark

Bill Thorpe (left) and O.J. Clark on patrol in Macomb.

In 1961 William H. Thorpe became the first African American police officer to serve in the Macomb Police Department. Created to honor his contributions and legacy to city of Macomb and located on the 1200 and 1300 blocks of East Pierce Street is the William H. Thorpe Memorial Park.

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