From: Laura McSpedon (lmcspedon@cwa-union.org)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 12:02:01 EST
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WHO: Any student organization that wants to work to increase recruitment and
retention of underrepresented students & the United States Student
Association.
WHAT: Don't Erase Race. Erase Racism! Day
WHEN: December 6th.
WHY: To educate students and community about legal attacks on affirmative
action and to build grassroots campaigns to increase recruitment and
retention on campus.
WHERE: Cincinnati Ohio, and ON YOUR CAMPUS!!
For those of you that did not get to participate in National Take
Affirmative Action Day on Oct.30th, fear not, the struggle for access
continues. On December 6th, 2001 in Cincinnati Ohio, the University of
Michigan admissions lawsuits will be heard before the federal appelate court
of the 6th circuit (MI, TN, OH, KY). The lawsuits challenge the use of race
in admissions for the university's undergraduate and law schools. This is
the final stage of appeals before the Supreme Court.
Students will gather there to share their experience and strategies for
increasing access to education for students of color on campus. Although we
have seen precipitous drops in underrepresented students at selective
universities where affirmative action has been eliminated, we recognize that
even where affirmative action has not been eliminated, the recruitment and
retention of underrepresented students still lags far behind equal access.
Furthermore, access to higher education for people of color is not limited
to getting more people of color into majority white, elite institutions.
Students will come together to outline a vision for higher education that is
equitable and just for communities of color, and a plan to put that vison
into action. Please help spread the word, dispell the myths, and build
campus campaigns to increase the recruitment and retention of
underrepresented students, by sponsoring a solidarity event on your campus.
This can take any form: your own town hall on campus, a roundtable
discussion in residence halls, a brownbag lunch with a faculty or community
speaker, informational tabling, guerilla theatre, or visual displays, use
this as an opportunity to further your own campus goals to increase
recruitment and retention, or as an opportunity to bring diverse student
organizations together to discuss possible goals and campaigns.
Please email Liz Geyer at cdp@usstudents.org with the contact information
below. Write "December 6th" in the subject line.
Name:
Campus:
Student organization:
Email:
Phone:
Address:
If you choose to sponsor "Don't Erase Race. Erase Racism! Day" on your
campus, you will recieve a free copy of "The Struggle For Access: Organizing
for Student of Color Recruitment and Retention" and access to resources like
national research on recruitment and retention, organizing materials,
trainings, and technical assistance running campus campaigns.
Check out http://www.usstudents.org/cgi-bin/ussa?/cdp for more information
on affirmative action and the United States Student Association, Student of
Color Campus Diversity Project.
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Graciela Elizabeth Geyer
Student of Color Campus Diversity Project
United States Student Association Foundation
1413 K St. NW Floor 9 Washington, D.C., 20005
tel. 202.374.USSA · fax. 202.393.5886 · www.usstudents.org
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