Email Bobby Vaughn (bvaughn@ndnu.edu) to sign-up and reserve your place for the upcoming 2-Day Anti-Racism Workshop!

FREE for all NDNU Faculty, Staff, and Students

 

 

 

 

 

Join NDNU's Anti-Racism Efforts and be a STAR!

 

What is STARS??

STARS (Seeking Transformation toward Anti-Racist Systems) is an anti-racism team assembled for the purpose of iinvestigating, analyzing, and dismantling racism at NDNU.  Approximately 20 people including administrators, students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, SNDs, and friends from the wider community will be selected to begin work during the 2008-09 academic year. 

Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training will train the STARS team, helping us to analyze racism and to develop and implement strategies to dismantle racism within our institutional structures.

Crossroads was founded in 1986 as an effort to develop new directions in understanding and combating the root causes of institutional racism in the United States.

Crossroads has developed an intensive process to develop and train an institutional anti-racism team.  The process involves three specific phases, which build upon each other.  Each phase has a duration of 3 to 6 months, and the entire training process normally lasts from 12 to 18 months.  When the final phase is completed, the team members are prepared to use their skills and strategies to lead their institution toward long term structural and programmatic transformation.

In addition to faculty, staff, and students, community members will be an important part of this team as we work to become accountable to the communities that racism oppresses.  Community members will be investing their time not only in the transformation of this institution, but also assisting the institution to participate in societal change that will impact our larger society.

We will be working to overcome a barely acknowledged and even more rarely confronted national history of racial injustice, the continuing effects of which conspire to perpetuate racial inequality, institutional stagnation and human suffering.  The success of this work will demonstrate how well Notre Dame de Namur University carries out its mission. Will you consider joining us in this important work? 

 

How Do I Join STARS??

It's Easy.  Click Here for a STARS Application.

Application Deadline NOVEMBER 21, 2008.

 

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Concise Timeline of NDNU's Anti-Racism Work