Students celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month through dance, community
Meet the members of Monarcas, a student group that celebrates Hispanic culture through dance.
Oct 2, 2024
Grand Valley State University encourages the campus to embrace a social justice and intersectional identity approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Get connected through each center's programming.
Land Acknowledgement
The Social Justice Centers collaborates with partners across the university and beyond to cultivate a campus community in which historically oppressed communities can succeed and thrive at GVSU. We work to ensure that students, faculty, and staff can find a deep sense of belonging on our campus. In our work, we center those who are oppressed including Indigenous people. We are committed to unlearning settler colonial frameworks and learning wise practices that center Indigenous knowledge and culture. We are committed to allocating resources, both financial and staff / student positions, for Indigenous programming, furthering Indigenous student support, fostering community partnerships, and developing intersectional events that cultivate Indigenous allyship.
Today, we would like to recognize the People of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodawademi peoples on whose land we are gathered on today. The Three Fires People are Indigenous to this land which means that this is their ancestral territory. Every university in this country was built on Indigenous land. We conduct land acknowledgments as a reminder of the histories, teachings, traditions, and the first people who originated here and who tend to Mshkiikii (land/earth) always.
We conduct these acknowledgments to be good visitors, as these were always done before colonial contact. To continue to be good visitors, we have the responsibility to learn about the history of settler colonialism and its impact on Indigenous people.
Visit the Land Acknowledge page at the Office of Multicultural Affair's website for more information and resources.
Events
Social Justice Centers Fall Outing
October 11, 2024 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Enjoy a fun fall outing to Post Family Farms on Friday, October 11 from 11am-3pm. Transportation provided to Post Family Farms
QueeraPOOLooza: Spooky Pool Party!
October 18, 2024 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for our bi-annual pool party, Halloween edition! There will be games, crafts, food, and more! Wear what you feel comfortable with for swimming, as long as it is a water-safe material. There...
Unnatural Causes
October 24, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Unnatural Causes is a documentary series that explores the effects of social factors on health and health care in the United States. It focuses specifically on race, socioeconomic standing, geography,...
NIARA Table Talk
November 7, 2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Monthly engagement opportunities are scheduled to allow students to come together to curate a safe space for an open forum on various guided discussions and to ultimately provide a collective community...
Teach-In INT 100/201 APPROVED
November 13, 2024 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM
GVSU's Teach-In is mutual education for the entire campus community, intended to address topics related to inequality and systems of oppression, as well as social justice and liberation. The...
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