Inclusive Corvallis: Putting the Pieces Together
Monday, October 5
Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Corvallis-Benton County
Public Library
645 NW Monroe Avenue
To date, nearly 60 community members, many of them OSU staff, faculty and students have gathered to work together on a plan to make Corvallis a more welcoming and inclusive community. Please join us on October 5 to help transform this passion into action. Please extend this invitation to your friends and colleagues. This forum is open to all people. You can see the meeting notes and other details here.
Please RSVP to Corine Gerig at (541) 737-4381 or corrine.gerig@oregonstate.edu
Click here for more information and updates about Inclusive CorvallisEthics of Diversity Class
Twenty-eight OSU faculty, staff and students attended a three week long Ethics of Diversity class this summer, taught by Philosophy faculty member, Lani Roberts, PhD. The class was offered free of charge as a follow-up to the "This is My OSU: A Destination of Choice" diversity essay contest, won by OSU student Matthew Holland.
Ethics of Diversity is a course about how the human community divides against itself by selecting groups of people to disadvantage so that others are advantaged and why this is immoral. Systematic disadvantage is based on accidents of birth, that is attributes of who we are over which we have no control such as race, gender, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, disabilities, etc. We examine this common pervasive phenomenon using materials from ethics, history, sociology and other sources.
"I think the class went really well. Everyone was fully engaged in the course materials and in the class discussions," said Dr. Roberts. " I know some folks stayed up very late or got up very early to do the reading - this on top of families and work. I admire them."
Learn more about the Matt and the essay contest, and read the finalist’s essays here.
