Tag: inclusivity and student affairs
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Weekend of Pride: Green Bay LGBTQ+ festival starts with Napalese mural
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GREEN BAY – The more Loschue “Chue” Lo worked on a mural to honor and celebrate northeastern Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community, the more his first public work of art became bigger than he initially realized. A panel of judges selected Lo, a gay man from Oshkosh currently studying art at UW-Green Bay, to paint a 12-foot-tall, 24-foot-wide mural on the…
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UW-Green Bay Archives launches, ‘Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin’ as part of the ‘A Weekend of Pride!
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Green Bay Wis.— The UW-Green Bay Archives project, Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin will be formally launched as part of the upcoming Green Bay event, A Weekend of Pride!. The launch is in the form of a unique interactive exhibit highlighting the history of the local LGBTQ+ community. In addition to featuring photos,…
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UWGB’s Pride Center is helping run pride camps for students
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GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — In an effort to provide more awareness of the LGBTQ+ community, UW-Green Bay’s Pride Center is helping run Pride Camps for middle school and high school students. Source: UWGB’s Pride Center is helping run pride camps for students
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Reminder: Summer Read
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Join UW-Green Bay Libraries in reading Philip Gambone’s Travels in a Gay Nation for the summer read. You can access the eBook for free through UWGB Libraries. Each chapter features a different interview with people from the LGBTQ+ community. Read the entire book if you have the time or pick the chapters that interest you. Visit the library…
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Inclusivity and Equity Level 1 Foundations 1 and 2 Training
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UW-Green Bay employees are invited to RSVP for Inclusivity and Equity Level 1 Foundations 1 and 2 training scheduled on Teams for Friday, July 23. Foundations 1 is from 8-10 a.m. and Foundations 2 from 10 a.m. to noon. Foundations training focuses on Diversity Equity and Inclusivity vocabulary and discussions that address what we can…
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The Phoenix Childcare Support Program
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Do you know a student-parent who could use financial help? UW-Green Bay continually strives to identify and remove obstacles that prevent our students from being successful in pursuing their educational goals. One such barrier is a provision to support childcare for our students who are also parents. In an effort to address this need, the…
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Professional Development Opportunity – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop with Rev. Lex Cade-White
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Today, Monday, June 21 from 3 to 4:30 pm. and Tuesday, June 22 from 10:30 a.m. to Noon are professional development opportunities—a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop with Rev. Lex Cade-White. Both sessions cover the same content: Register for Monday, June 21 from 3 to 4:30 Register for Tuesday, June 22, from 10:30 a.m. to Noon…
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Junteenth celebrations taking place in Green Bay | WLUK
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GREEN BAY (WLUK) –Many in Green Bay are celebrating the news of Juneteenth becoming a national holiday. There will be a few events happening around the city on Saturday.”It’s always a good time when things happen that will move us forward with racial equality and social justice so better late than never,” said Corey King,…
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Green Bay activists express relief after Derek Chauvin guilty verdict
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GREEN BAY – Nearly a year after they first took to the streets, residents in Green Bay let out a breath of relief after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd last May.Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was charged with killing Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020 by pinning his knee into Floyd’s neck…
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Asian Americans in Wisconsin share the discrimination against them during the pandemic | Green Bay Press Gazette
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Mai J. Lo Lee, diversity director at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs Office, noted people might make a social media post or correct a stranger’s hateful or rude comment on the internet, but the hard part is holding conversations daily about hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Source: Asian Americans in Wisconsin share the discrimination against them…