Please join us Monday 10 August at 2:30pm EDT for our next session of the Equity and Inclusion Journal Club (EIJC). In their presentation, Making Our Efforts Count: Examining the Impact, Prevalence, and Barriers of Out-of-School Time Activities, Jackie Doyle and Kari Haworth will discuss the research behind impactful community engagement opportunities. 

Title: Making Our Efforts Count: Examining the Impact, Prevalence, and Barriers of Out-of-School Time Activities

Summary: 

Often in attempting...

Read more about EIJC Summer Session #7 (community engagement opportunities)

The Challenges LGBTQ+ People Face in Academia. This session will be led by Boryana Hadzhiyska and Jessica Mink. See below for more information on what they will cover, the "required" listening, and some extra resources.

On their paths towards an academic career, many LGBTQ+ people experience significant challenges starting as early as elementary school, which often prevent them from ever reaching the rungs of the academic ladder. Hostile environments at school, combined with a lack of support from the community, are well-known contributors to...

Read more about EIJC Summer Session #5 (LGBTQ+)

Unequal Resource Allocation for Public Education

Matt Ashby will lead us in a discussion on funding for public education in Massachusetts, and offer some ideas about why and how it could be improved. In large part those ideas stem from a recent report entitled ...

Read more about EIJC Summer Session #3 "Unequal Resource Allocation for Public Education" hosted by Matt Ashby

To get us started for the first summer session, we will cover Parts 7 and 8 of the podcast Seeing White (roughly 1 hour total of listening), and will be basing our discussion largely off of the questions on that webpage.  Read more about EIJC Summer Session #1 (Whiteness)