Women’s History Month and Disability Awareness Month
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Feature by Dr. John Johnson, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion:
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Photo (Matthew McKern): Kate Moe ’25 delivers a presentation about the intersection of reproductive justice and disability justice at the 2023 Power & Privilege Symposium.
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March 1st marks the start of both Women’s History Month and Disability Awareness Month.
Established in 1987 as a month to “recognize and celebrate people with disabilities and to encourage expanding opportunities for all people,” Disability Awareness Month helped pave the way for the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
Women’s History Month, like Black History Month, began initially as a week of recognition. Starting in 1982, the U.S. Congress established Women’s History Week and in 1987 the week was expanded to a month and is recognized in a variety of ways across the country.
Learn more about Disability Awareness Month, Women’s History Month and how Whitman College is engaging with these issues in the full article on the Division of Diversity and Inclusion website.
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Welcome New Staff Members
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Please join us in welcoming the following new Whitman employees who started in February:
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- Nina Rubio, Custodian (Residence Halls)
- Daisy Richards, Projects Coordinator (Admission)
- Kelly Brennan, Campus Visit Coordinator (Admission)
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Staff Employment Opportunities
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Whitman College is currently hiring for the following staff positions:
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- Assistant Director for Career Mentoring Programs (Career and Community Engagement Center)
- Assistant Director of Alumni Relations (Alumni Relations)
- Assistant/Associate Director of Annual Giving (Development and Alumni Relations)
- Assistant Director of Security (Campus Security)
- Chief of Staff (President's Office)
- Electrician (Facilities Services)
- Executive Assistant to VP for Communications (Communications)
- Environmental Health and Safety Manager (Facilities Services)
- Mental Health Counselor (Counseling Center)
- On-call Security Officer (Security)
- Printing and Mailing Supervisor (Communications)
- Technology Specialist for Math & Statistics and Computer Science (Technology Services)
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Gender Studies Research Roundtable Tomorrow
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The Gender Studies Department will host a roundtable discussion, “Toward Reproductive Justice,” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 in Olin Auditorium. Three scholars exploring reproductive justice from a range of disciplinary perspectives will discuss their work.
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Destress Fest Tomorrow Afternoon
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The Academic Resource Center will host a Destress Fest event for students from 4–7 p.m. on Thursday, March 2. A range of activities will be spread throughout Reid Campus Center, from making sugar scrubs, to paint by numbers to kinetic sand. During the first two hours only, meet and interact with animals from the Blue Mountain Humane Society.
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Musical Inclusion Lecture Tomorrow
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Anthony Kwame Harrison, a professor at Virginia Tech, will present a talk titled “Musical Inclusion and the Unheard Terms of DEI Work” at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 in Maxey Auditorium. Harrison will discuss various ways in which sound and music contribute to people’s feelings of belonging and/or estrangement within social spaces.
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East India Company History Lecture Tomorrow
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Ian Barrow, a professor at Middlebury College, will present a talk titled “The East India Company: From Merchant to Colonial State, 1600–1858” at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 in the Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory. The talk will make extensive use of maps and images currently on display in the current Maxey Museum exhibition, “Mapping India: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition of South Asia.”
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In accordance with Washington State Labor & Industries employer requirements, we are notifying the campus community that since yesterday, nobody with Whitman access was confirmed positive for COVID-19.
Please continue to follow our campus COVID-19 protocols and if you have any symptoms that may be COVID-19 or know that you may have been exposed to coronavirus, please be tested.
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