First-Year Seminar class focuses on “Advancing Human Rights and Social Justice: Art as Activism”
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Faculty, students help Latino community at Stetson’s La Casa Cultural Latina
Award-winning author and historian to discuss racism in America
Educating for Justice, Stetson’s master’s program in elementary education, addresses student diversity.
On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Stetson University’s Social Justice Lecture Series will present guest speaker Kevin Quashie, Ph.D., pictured left, professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Smith College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, to speak on “Quiet, Justice, Love.” The lecture, which is open to the public, free of charge, will be held at […]
Dr. Susan Rankin, founding member of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, will be tonight’s guest speaker at Stetson University’s Social Justice Lecture Series at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Stetson Room. The public is invited, free of charge. With a career dedicated and committed to social justice, Rankin will speak […]
Stetson University’s Social Justice Lecture Series will present guest speaker Dr. Susan Rankin, founding member of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. The public is invited, free of charge. With a career […]
Stetson University College of Law hosts a public Social Justice Advocacy Lecture Series discussion with former Robert F. Kennedy adviser Peter Edelman about ending poverty in the U.S. Edelman speaks at 7 p.m. on Oct. 17 at Stetson’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S. WHAT: Author and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Peter Edelman will […]
Peter Edelman, director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy as well as a law professor at Georgetown University, will be the inaugural speaker for Stetson University’s new Social Justice Lecture Series, on Wednesday, Oct. 16. His lecture, “So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America,” will take […]
Raise your hand if you understand the phytochemical inhibition of MRP 8/14-induced pro-atherosclerotic inflammation in human monocytes. Okay. What about the art and politics of fairytales? Tara Formisano’s hand went up both times. The ambitious 22-year-old from Ridgefield, Conn. not only grasps the utterly disparate topics, she has authored award-winning papers on both, and a […]
For most people, the Caribbean is a tropical paradise, a getaway destination where reef fish dart among sunken pirate gold in a boundless turquoise sea. For the people who live and work for equality and human rights in the Caribbean, a different picture emerges: one focused on the struggle for social justice. Unemployment is rampant. […]
Five Stetson University student organizations and the university’s Cross Cultural Center will hold a free public event – named “Silent Steps” – designed to raise awareness of social injustices experienced by people around the world. The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at the Hollis Center, 602 N. Bert Fish Drive, DeLand. […]
Rajni Shankar-Brown, PhD, earns local and national honors — once again — for transformative leadership, advancing equity and protecting justice
Jeremy Posadas, PhD, also was appointed associate professor of Religious Studies and Gender Studies
President Biden appoints Hannah Raissa Ibañez, JD ’16, to federal Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
Her talk on Thursday night, Feb. 17, relaunched the J.A. Stewart Lecture series, which raises awareness of “ethical concerns in an ever-changing world”
Black Student Association invites Stetson community to attend its many events in February
The fellowships seek to create systemic change by providing opportunities to shape policy and systems through a racial justice lens
Stetson College of Law participates in consortium and launch of the pilot program
The 2021 Poverty and Homelessness Virtual Conference, under the direction of founder and Stetson Professor Rajni Shankar-Brown, PhD, is set for July 10