Announcement: UNI Workshop to Address Race

From Relations

The University of Northern Iowa will offer a workshop focused on exploring systems of race, privilege and difference in an effort to support the creation of multicultural classrooms that celebrate respect for diversity. The workshop will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 24 at Schindler Education Center.

Eddie Moore Jr., the director of diversity at the Brooklyn Friends School, will speak at the workshop. His mission is to encourage and stimulate thoughts, ideas and actions focused on complex social issues facing students and educators of all backgrounds and experiences.

This workshop will utilize the "RACE: Are We So Different?" exhibit at the , which will be on display Feb. 6 to June 9. The exhibit gives visitors the tools to recognize racial ideas and practices in contemporary American life by exploring the everyday experience of race and the contemporary science that is challenging common ideas about race. Students can earn one hour of UNI graduate credit by attending the workshop.

The cost of the workshop is $50. To register, visit www.uni.edu/continuinged/enroll. Enrollment forms must be submitted by Feb. 17. For additional information about the workshop, contact Stephanie Logan, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at UNI, at 319-273-2167 or stephanie.logan@uni.edu.