In order to help our faculty and staff stay mentally well and respond to the mental health needs of our students, the Counseling Center will be offering workshops exclusively for UMD faculty and staff throughout the fall semester.
This workshop will address common student mental health concerns, ways to communicate about mental health with students, available mental health resources (including the Counseling Center) and how to refer to them, and methods of coping for everyone involved.
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Join the Anacostia Community Museum for a discussion with Andrea S.
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Join The Southern Poverty Law Center for The Far Right: Exposing Anti-Blackness, a three-part virtual convening about the challenges facing Black communities amid a rising and increasingly violent white nationalist movement. Hard-fought gains made by the Black community are under assault and our democracy is at risk. Sessions are free and will not be recorded. Part 3: Post Election: Which Way Forward in the Fight?
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This colloquium from the ARHU Dean’s Colloquium Series on Race, Equity and Justice features Julius Fleming, Jr., assistant professor in English, who will discuss his book, “Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Refusal to Wait for Freedom.”
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Election night 2020 has come and gone, now what? Join a panel of experts in elections, constitutional law, congress and journalism to discuss the 2020 election and what's to come. This event is hosted by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, and a global pandemic intersecting with racism, economic devastation, divisive politics, and individual despair have made 2020 disastrous. Join the Anna Julia Cooper Center for the first event the Fall 2020 Disaster and Race Speaker Series.. These events will question how individuals, communities, and the nation define, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disaster.
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National Book Award Longlister Richard Rothstein (The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America) investigates government-required neighborhood segregation of Black and white Americans, and Longlister
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In our current climate, political issues and tensions sometimes spill into the classroom.
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In this 90-minute online workshop, you will hear from instructors on campus who are exploring what it means to be an anti-racist educator. You will also have opportunities to reflect on how you can implement anti-racist practices in your classrooms using the Fearless Teaching Framework.
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Join UMD's Bias Incident Support Services and a panel of experts to discuss free speech, academic freedom, hate speech and counterspeech. They will also delve into what effective engagement in counterspeech looks like during an election season and in a virtual world.
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