Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Volunteers Needed for Power & Privilege

The 2022 Power & Privilege (P&P) Symposium will take place later this month with both in-person and virtual sessions. There are three main events which will require assistance from Whitman volunteers:

• Tuesday, Feb. 22: kick-off event with Aisha Fukushima ’09. Her online performance at 7 p.m. will be supported by various Whitman students and alumni.
• Wednesday, Feb. 23: keynote address from Imani Barbarin, an inclusion activist, in Cordiner Hall at 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday, Feb. 24: Power & Privilege Day with sessions led by Whitman students, faculty and staff on various topics.

The details of these events and a required volunteer info session will be sent out in a follow up email after you sign up to volunteer. Each of our volunteers will receive P&P merchandise and will secure a spot at a P&P event. If you have any questions, please contact symposium_programming@whitman.edu.

Will You Hire Me? is a study from the Diversity and Social Cognition Lab that is looking for participants. The purpose of this project is to investigate how individuals make hiring decisions in the workplace. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to experience what a hiring process looks like! Please use this link to sign up for an open time slot or email diversitysocialcoglab@gmail.com   to schedule a time to come in. In addition to that, if you are enrolled in PSYC 110 at Whitman College you may receive 1 credit for participating. If you are not enrolled in PSYC 110, you may enter a raffle to win 1 of 20 $5 Starbucks gift cards. This study is open to all faculty, staff and students age 18 and older.

Whitman’s online stationery portal is now open. This is a twice-yearly opportunity to get bulk pricing, so if you will need items for the rest of the academic year, now is the time to order. The deadline to order is Feb. 16 for delivery on March 15. Reminder: Your portal login is not the same as your Whitman login credentials and is not automatic. If you have ordered in the past, you created a password when you first opened an account and your login remains the same. 

In accordance with Washington state Labor & Industries employer requirements, we are notifying the campus community that in the past 24 hours, four people with Whitman access were confirmed positive for COVID-19. These people are now in isolation in accordance with our campus and CDC guidelines. Though the likelihood of transmission is low due to our campus COVID-19 protocols, it is possible that others may have been exposed to COVID-19. There is nothing you need to do at this time aside from following our campus COVID-19 protocols. Anyone identified through the contact tracing process as a close contact (within 6 ft. for at least 15 minutes over 24 hours) will be personally notified. 

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