Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Power & Privilege Keynote Speaker: Linda Sarsour
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Feature by: The 2024 Power and Privilege Symposium Executive Team and Tebraie Banda-Johns, Director of the Intercultural Center
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The 2024 Power & Privilege (P&P) Symposium is honored to welcome activist, community organizer and author Linda Sarsour to deliver the P&P keynote address on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom.
Due to limited seating at the keynote address, please RSVP in advance. The event will not be livestreamed, but it will be recorded and available to view after the event.
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Linda Sarsour is one of the country’s leading voices in the fight for racial, economic, gender and social justice. The Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American community organizer and mother of three is globally recognized for her award-winning intersectional work on key civil rights topics, including the impact of domestic policies that target Arab and Muslim American communities, mass incarceration and criminal justice, Middle East affairs, immigration policy and voter registration.
P&P Day is Thursday, Feb. 22. All are invited to attend the different sessions throughout the day led by members of the Whitman community! To begin planning your participation, check out the P&P schedule page. Some of the sessions will be available to watch live, at live.whitman.edu.
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Whitman College Accreditation Update
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Whitman recently submitted its Year 7 Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness Report to the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). This self-study focuses on mission fulfillment, improving institutional effectiveness, student learning and student achievement. The NWCCU will perform an on-campus comprehensive accreditation evaluation visit April 15–17, 2024. During this visit, the evaluation team, led by faculty and staff from peer institutions in the NWCCU region, will meet with students, staff and faculty to evaluate the college’s accreditation status. Look for updates on next steps in future editions of Whitman Today and on our Accreditation webpage as we prepare for this visit.
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Volunteer With Food Justice Project Tomorrow
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The Food Justice Project is looking for volunteers to help distribute food in the Walla Walla community. The event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 22 from 4–7 p.m. at the Blue Mountain Action Council warehouse (921 W. Cherry St.). Transportation options are available. Please sign up in advance.
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Photo (@whitman_dg): Ada Adler ’25, Philosophy major and member of Delta Gamma, recently visited Olympia for some advocacy work. “I met with senators and representatives on behalf of the independent colleges of Washington to advocate for increasing state financial aid opportunities for those who attend private colleges. The goal is to ensure that regardless of where the student comes from and what their financial state is they have an equal opportunity to attend the college that is the best fit for them.”
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Memorial Building, Room 331
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Memorial Building, Room 205
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Hall of Science, Room 116
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Reid Side Lawn or Sherwood 114 (weather dependent)
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom (RSVP)
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