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the silences.

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And again, degree.

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our anywhere.

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Hello. Hopefully
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We get hi.

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Welcome. My name is
Todd versus the I'm

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the Dean of College
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and Sciences. The kiss you.

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And I just really
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a hearty welcome for
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at our first,
at this moment

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conversation of 20-20 for

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a brand new school year.

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It's really great
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And I must say it's
nice to be back

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because many of you

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may remember
when we started

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this series
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after we're starting
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place and have to
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So we began this at

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this moment series in
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pandemic and urgent need to

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socially distance and
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a platform that we
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build community as
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of learners and scholars.

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if I counted correctly
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together for this at
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And for those of
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and I know there are many

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of you on this call.

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Thank you for coming back.

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It's good to see you again.

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For those of
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to her at this
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Welcome for the first time,

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and I hope to see
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this year with this,
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The format here
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Because of casual event,

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we wanted to create a
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to celebrate the
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the impact rich
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faculty and staff
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in our college, in
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amazing collection
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staff and students
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PSU, researchers
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that the collective
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engaged and might help us

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a little bit reflect
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the issues that we
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grappling with and

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experiencing at
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of why we're here today.

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Like last spring,
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here sitting in my
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still wearing my
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Everybody, right?

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Remember

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the PSU Bookstores
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e-business as well as
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your favorite PSU swag

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it's important
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I'm still sipping

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awesome so-called
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great friend didn't

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sponsor PSUs. Thank
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is a great time to quit,

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grab a snack or a cookie,

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the next hour of
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me and have them for well,

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feels like what, six
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you're on your couch or in

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your bed and maybe
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outside or are we

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like so many of
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maybe you're
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why you're also grading

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your elementary
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to figure out what
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cook for dinner,
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and I really
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to make this a great
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So our last at this
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June focused on inequities
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all the this moment series.

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Archived and are collected
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any of them at any time.

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discuss where we were
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and how we might
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charting new paths forward.

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So today we wanted
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of a new school year

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guests to really update
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their scholarship
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expertise in

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doing the real labor of

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advancing diversity
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both here at PSU
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four guests and I'll do
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We have ami Lambert, PSUs,

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new vice president
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and inclusion. Welcome AMI.

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Professor of indigenous
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in the College of
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Sciences, Dean's
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to tell us what they'd been

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working on it and why

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more questions in
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behind the scene who will

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to be back at,
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It's lovely to
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the show and I'm a firm.

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Excellent. Thank you, Todd.

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Thanks for the invitation.

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Great. To see everybody.

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I especially those
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and welcome back
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about kind of what
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contextualizing
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started on August 24th,

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and kind of started
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kinda open for a
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takeover all
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are really focused
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on accountability, on
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People feel like
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ready to move and their
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the way and then
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our conversations this
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bad people I exhausted

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for all kinds of reasons.

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All her are absolutely
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happen around change
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I'm gonna focus
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for the purpose of
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about creating

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an institutional
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Like who do we want to be

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when it comes to

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equity injustice
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lots of ideas
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lots of kind of opinions.

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together across our
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different units,

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across faculty,
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administrators,
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and really imagine
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and so racing as fast as we

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the goal of the
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For us to co-create

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a vision and talk
about what rises

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to the top for focus
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capacity is
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not as supremely
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So I'm going to put
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especially to students.

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Please go ahead
and register.

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We are over 400
folds and it has

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a 500 capacity limit

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big just because
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So please register soon.

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And if you're a
student register now.

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clear that while they

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are interested in coming

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to the table to partner,

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to work on lots of stuff.

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They really want to see

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the institution lead

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initiatives in this area,

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which is really
helpful feedback.

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Because coming in i

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bar people just
wanted to do

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community work or this is

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a very decentralized
institutions

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lapping good feedback.

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But as I think about

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the things that
I spent a lot of

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time thinking about what

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is increasing in Canada,

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college participation

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rates for BIPAP students.

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And not just getting
folks to college,

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but getting people
through, call it,

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Am I have much
more apt to be,

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will get through and talk

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about that in a little bit.

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But while folks are
in college, I'm very,

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very interested
in increasing

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john in high
impact practices.

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So things like
study abroad and

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research and
internships and

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co-ops and things like

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that writing-intensive
course if and I was

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reminded after one of
our campus sessions

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a few weeks ago, capstone
projects, right?

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So these other things that

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really develop the habits

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of mind that you
want for leaders.

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And so really increasing
BIPAP participation

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in this cultural learning.

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Bill Bowen,
cultural competency

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and intercultural fluency.

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Development is another
high impact practice.

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And then thinking
about what

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a real leadership pipeline
looks like, right?

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Not just getting people to

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jobs by having them
at the tables,

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having them with an agency

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able to make some
real decisions,

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have some real power.

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I'm very interested
in querying

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a BIPAP, BIPAP pipeline.

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I especially thinking about

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the future of work.

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And so as I think
about this is

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the prompt that
got me really just

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spent a lot of

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time contextualizing
stuff historically.

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But as I think about
lessons from past,

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efforts have been
doing this for awhile.

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And you learn a lot

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the longer you do the work.

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But one is really about

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the power of the
middle, right?

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And so this is.

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The opportunity and the

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challenge with change,

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when you are
changing the whole.

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And I have a
colleague who said

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it's like trying to turn

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a battleship in a bathtub

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when you are
changing the whole,

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IT changes from the middle.

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And so the process of

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whole system change

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fundamentally
dilutes the process.

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You're trying to move
the whole system.

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But it's really important

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that you honor the edges.

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The edges when you're,

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when you're
moving the whole

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is actually unfolds on

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the edges that are pushing

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the system to move.

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When it moves, its not
moving to the level

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of vision of the folks on

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the edges because the
hole is moving a novel.

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The hole is not where

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the folks on the edges are.

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So how do we honor
those on the edges?

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Those who are pushing us,

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those who are disrupters,

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those who are holding
us accountable.

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Because in some ways

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when you're
changing the hole,

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it will always be a
disappointment to do on

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the edges because after

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we whole system
change works rate.

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But it's important
defaults and our

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crazy than our radical,

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these are the folks
that actually

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holding us to
our true selves.

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And we need them and we
need to take care of

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them and we need to make

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space for their voices.

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This is what I
hope this summit

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will start to
help us do that.

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And what are the thing that

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really have learned
is that it's

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really important to get

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in the same conversation.

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We need to have

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the same perception of
what the problem is,

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who is a disproportionately
impacted?

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I'm so the kind
of campus meeting

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we've had have helped
us focus on that.

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We need to think about

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both the technical pieces,

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the pieces of the
work that are

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very easy to identify.

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This is a problem.
Let's fix it.

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You know who clearly
able to fix that.

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That's technical and
that's important.

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You need to do all
the technical pieces.

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But the adaptive pieces,

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the pieces that are
harder to identify.

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The pieces that require
experimentation

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and failure and having like

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the whole system
working on.

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You also need to
be focused on

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adaptive pieces when

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you're working on change.

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And then also the things

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that are below the line.

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I really like this
metaphor for having

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your foot on the gas and

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the brake at the same time.

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A lot of time folks
are saying we want

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to do this and this is

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what we're committed to.

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And it's like why isn't
change happening?

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There's lots of stuff
that's happening

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below the line that
is leading to that.

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So the ability to
surface that and

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speak to that I have
learned is really,

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really important if you're,

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if you're looking at
sustainable change.

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But what i will spend
hopefully five minutes,

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my five minutes left
doing is sharing

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parts of what I have

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now called the
pregnancy speech.

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So what has happened over

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the last several months?

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I've had the
opportunity to hear

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from colleague that every

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institution I've ever
work that in the US,

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which has been
incredibly gratifying.

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And I hope means that I do

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something usually these

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different institutions.

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And several folks from

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when I was in Vermont said,

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I've been thinking about,

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and he said your
pregnancy speak out

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because I was pregnant
when I gave a speech,

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we had Tim Wise over
and I kind of pro,

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provided a preamble
14 why this speech.

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And so I went to
look for it and,

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and the benefit of faculty,

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that faculty AB
institutional history

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until after the speech,

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folks had asked me for it.

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And so I went to
faculty members

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and I'm able to
dig up the speech.

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What I'm going to do
to conceptualize this,

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because this was from 2013.

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And when I went back to it,

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I wanted to see what

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still makes sense for
what's still relevant.

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And so I would part

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of the speech and what I'm,

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what I'm hoping to
hear from folks with

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a mu is what
makes sense here,

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what applies here, right?

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I wrote this and read it

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in 2013 and it's
when each morning.

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And I will have

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some editorial notes
now that is 20-20,

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but I'll go ahead and

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read that and then
I will turn it

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over to my next
wonderful colleague

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that I'm happy to
share space with.

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So because the issue of

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race fundamentally
starts with whiteness,

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white spaces are best

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suited to engage in
conversations on Ruiz,

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the notion of race, as

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we currently understand it,

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emerged from
white thinking.

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The system of race
as it exists today,

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emerged from wide politics

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and the narrative
around race,

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including today's, this was

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2013 post racial ideology,

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which has fortunately been

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debunked in the
last few years.

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What shape from a
white point of view.

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I came to the United
States in 1997,

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impacted by racial notions

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and narratives
because I'm from

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a colonized country where

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the West being right

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pervaded our
consciousness and

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the West to us with white.

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Yet my identity
and my reality in

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many wave remains undefined

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and unrestricted
by, by race.

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Today in 2013, in
response to whiteness,

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I am fundamentally

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a black middle-class
woman from

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Nigeria with

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a solid ratio and
ethnic identity.

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These IB identity
is the most

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profoundly shaped
my experience.

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And I am sometimes
overwhelmed

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by the burden of
seeing something

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everywhere that many people

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do not see anywhere.

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And I recognize that
I have to allow for

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this truth without becoming

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embittered or
imprisoned by it.

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Our speaker tonight
will deliberately

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educate us from
a macro focus.

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So I will take a micro one.

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I was Tim Wise 20-30.

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Even though I worry
that we spend

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too much time on
micro issues.

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This even of my life
has reminded me

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that race is also
profoundly personal.

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When I found out I was
having a daughter,

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that was real delight
because I had wanted

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a female child from

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the time I discovered
I was pregnant.

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And I just know
the world could

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use a mini me. And she is.

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But I found the
delight compounded and

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confused by really because
she was not a son.

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Recognizing how
much agenda binary

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dominates our regular life.

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I have found the joy

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and acts of having a child,

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wrestling with the
cultural expectations that

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still favor will mail
this first borns.

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And the terrifying
realizations that I feel

525
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totally ill-equipped
to raise

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a black man in America.

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And I know that I live in

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a society that is just as

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00:19:56,419 --> 00:19:58,070
ill-equipped to support

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00:19:58,070 --> 00:20:00,859
the positive development
of black males.

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The time to
check the sex of

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my child coincided with

533
00:20:04,965 --> 00:20:06,649
a George Zimmerman verdict.

534
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So this terror with very

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present as the relief

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and having a data
subsided though.

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A new round of fears arose.

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I do not want my daughter
to be imprisoned

539
00:20:18,290 --> 00:20:20,405
by the angry black
woman stereotype,

540
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regardless of
what temperament

541
00:20:21,979 --> 00:20:23,329
she actually has.

542
00:20:23,329 --> 00:20:24,620
I now know she has a big

543
00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:26,674
imagination and
big emotions.

544
00:20:26,674 --> 00:20:28,130
Or how angry the

545
00:20:28,130 --> 00:20:30,245
non-black people
around, hey, get.

546
00:20:30,245 --> 00:20:31,700
I do not want her to be

547
00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:34,355
objectified or
exotic sized.

548
00:20:34,355 --> 00:20:36,560
I do not want it
to be defined by

549
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:37,669
artificial standards of

550
00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:39,890
beauty and
acceptable behavior.

551
00:20:39,890 --> 00:20:41,449
I do not want people to be

552
00:20:41,449 --> 00:20:42,949
threatened by
her because she

553
00:20:42,949 --> 00:20:46,625
is I do not want
professional advancement,

554
00:20:46,625 --> 00:20:48,034
authenticity,

555
00:20:48,034 --> 00:20:49,399
and community to be

556
00:20:49,399 --> 00:20:51,859
mutually exclusive
choices for her.

557
00:20:51,859 --> 00:20:54,170
I do not want her
to always be on

558
00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:56,935
the outside looking
in, shut out,

559
00:20:56,935 --> 00:20:59,770
and marginalized because
people do not know

560
00:20:59,770 --> 00:21:03,520
what to do with her
or afraid of her.

561
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,325
Somewhere in the
midst of all of this,

562
00:21:06,325 --> 00:21:09,640
I stopped and marvel
at the madness of it.

563
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,289
This is the impact of

564
00:21:11,289 --> 00:21:13,254
a culture that is not real,

565
00:21:13,254 --> 00:21:15,280
but it is really
powerful and

566
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,200
powerfully held together by

567
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,990
systems and
institutions and

568
00:21:19,990 --> 00:21:23,500
by narratives,
psyches, and actions.

569
00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,120
So are they prepared to

570
00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,439
embrace a new identity of

571
00:21:26,439 --> 00:21:28,119
the mother with all of

572
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:29,259
the challenges and hopes

573
00:21:29,259 --> 00:21:31,104
and dreams that
come with it.

574
00:21:31,104 --> 00:21:33,084
One of hope tonight

575
00:21:33,084 --> 00:21:34,719
is that the
generation that will

576
00:21:34,719 --> 00:21:36,145
shape the world my child

577
00:21:36,145 --> 00:21:38,695
live in, who get raised.

578
00:21:38,695 --> 00:21:40,030
I hope that they will

579
00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:41,650
understand the
complexity that

580
00:21:41,650 --> 00:21:43,120
intersection of race and

581
00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:44,904
its impact on all of us,

582
00:21:44,904 --> 00:21:46,480
as well as their rule in

583
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,894
dismantling it
for all of us.

584
00:21:48,894 --> 00:21:51,414
But for that I
hope to come true.

585
00:21:51,414 --> 00:21:54,400
We as leaders, teachers,

586
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,840
family members,

587
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,855
and decision-makers
with guest race.

588
00:21:58,855 --> 00:22:03,009
First. Here know wishes
for miracles tonight.

589
00:22:03,009 --> 00:22:06,504
It is one speech.
I'm one speaker.

590
00:22:06,504 --> 00:22:08,740
But they, the
desperate wish,

591
00:22:08,740 --> 00:22:10,795
that's something
said tonight,

592
00:22:10,795 --> 00:22:15,609
starts, accelerates
or sustain the shift.

593
00:22:15,609 --> 00:22:17,920
Needed to see that
this is about all of

594
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,014
us and also about
none of us.

595
00:22:21,014 --> 00:22:22,640
That shame and guilt

596
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,159
are inward-looking
fundamentally about

597
00:22:25,159 --> 00:22:27,470
self and therefore
not useful to

598
00:22:27,470 --> 00:22:30,050
anyone else or
the work that

599
00:22:30,050 --> 00:22:33,094
systems and power
mean we must embrace

600
00:22:33,094 --> 00:22:36,410
personal and collective
responsibility that

601
00:22:36,410 --> 00:22:39,784
were dominant group
member's responsibility

602
00:22:39,784 --> 00:22:40,999
must be approached in

603
00:22:40,999 --> 00:22:43,190
ways that are not
about seeking

604
00:22:43,190 --> 00:22:46,099
absolution or approval
from people of color.

605
00:22:46,099 --> 00:22:48,649
All about saving
people or color,

606
00:22:48,649 --> 00:22:51,124
while about being
good white people.

607
00:22:51,124 --> 00:22:53,329
Rather, responsibility

608
00:22:53,329 --> 00:22:54,770
must be about choosing to

609
00:22:54,770 --> 00:22:57,080
see about focusing on

610
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,110
the system and the
self in the system.

611
00:23:00,110 --> 00:23:01,460
And about working to

612
00:23:01,460 --> 00:23:04,009
dismantle this
entrenched system.

613
00:23:04,009 --> 00:23:06,665
To mean
responsibilities about

614
00:23:06,665 --> 00:23:08,720
all of us with power and

615
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,029
without recognizing that we

616
00:23:11,029 --> 00:23:13,445
must engage in
this conversation.

617
00:23:13,445 --> 00:23:15,950
And we must engage
in this work.

618
00:23:15,950 --> 00:23:18,230
If we're going to
have a future.

619
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:22,234
Worthy of any of
us. Thank you.

620
00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:24,229
That's my contextual
piece and

621
00:23:24,229 --> 00:23:26,749
I turn it over
back to you, Tom.

622
00:23:26,749 --> 00:23:28,909
Thank you so much.
I am. I am again.

623
00:23:28,909 --> 00:23:30,350
Welcome. Welcome to PSU.

624
00:23:30,350 --> 00:23:33,860
It's great to have you
next up, Vicki gear.

625
00:23:33,860 --> 00:23:37,009
And I want to also say on

626
00:23:37,009 --> 00:23:38,870
a Great to be with you on

627
00:23:38,870 --> 00:23:40,969
this panel and
certainly with Ted,

628
00:23:40,969 --> 00:23:42,860
my esteemed
colleague Angela,

629
00:23:42,860 --> 00:23:44,570
who I also have had

630
00:23:44,570 --> 00:23:45,740
such an honor to work

631
00:23:45,740 --> 00:23:46,789
with over these
past years and

632
00:23:46,789 --> 00:23:48,050
thank you to for
to Todd into

633
00:23:48,050 --> 00:23:49,939
the entire staff of

634
00:23:49,939 --> 00:23:52,385
the Dean's Office who
make this possible.

635
00:23:52,385 --> 00:23:54,169
There are so many threads

636
00:23:54,169 --> 00:23:55,400
that I love to pick up on.

637
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,629
I'm going to try
to do my part at

638
00:23:56,629 --> 00:23:58,999
contextualizing
the work that I'm

639
00:23:58,999 --> 00:24:00,784
involved in this year

640
00:24:00,784 --> 00:24:02,239
through the re-imagine

641
00:24:02,239 --> 00:24:03,785
Campus Safety Committee.

642
00:24:03,785 --> 00:24:05,750
I'll tell you a bit
about me first.

643
00:24:05,750 --> 00:24:06,889
I you she her pronouns.

644
00:24:06,889 --> 00:24:08,449
I'm a faculty
member in women,

645
00:24:08,449 --> 00:24:10,010
gender and
sexuality studies,

646
00:24:10,010 --> 00:24:11,300
which is a
department within

647
00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:13,564
the School of gender,
race, and nations.

648
00:24:13,564 --> 00:24:16,880
I came to PS you 20
years ago and was

649
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,639
recruited to become a
Capstone instructor.

650
00:24:19,639 --> 00:24:22,159
So some of you, many of
you know likely that

651
00:24:22,159 --> 00:24:26,015
the capstone is the
senior level requirement.

652
00:24:26,015 --> 00:24:27,979
University studies,
the signature

653
00:24:27,979 --> 00:24:30,424
general education program
at Portland State.

654
00:24:30,424 --> 00:24:34,669
And I was asked to
come in and teach as

655
00:24:34,669 --> 00:24:36,829
an adjunct to a
course that worked

656
00:24:36,829 --> 00:24:39,664
with a reproductive
justice organization.

657
00:24:39,664 --> 00:24:41,719
And I never went away.

658
00:24:41,719 --> 00:24:43,370
So I've been at
Portland State ever

659
00:24:43,370 --> 00:24:45,499
since and now
actually do most of

660
00:24:45,499 --> 00:24:48,499
my teaching and work
in WT assessment in

661
00:24:48,499 --> 00:24:50,630
gender and sexuality
studies while

662
00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:51,439
staying connected to

663
00:24:51,439 --> 00:24:53,194
the university
studies community.

664
00:24:53,194 --> 00:24:55,010
One of the roles
that I have in WG

665
00:24:55,010 --> 00:24:57,019
assesses as the
practicum coordinator.

666
00:24:57,019 --> 00:24:59,269
So I work with all of
our students who are

667
00:24:59,269 --> 00:25:02,195
engaging in a six
credit hour practicum,

668
00:25:02,195 --> 00:25:04,519
typically done in about
their senior year.

669
00:25:04,519 --> 00:25:06,410
And so I come to
the work that I'm

670
00:25:06,410 --> 00:25:08,419
doing through the
re-imagine committee.

671
00:25:08,419 --> 00:25:10,010
Very much as a
practitioner,

672
00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:12,079
as somebody who's
really interested

673
00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:13,940
in being in what

674
00:25:13,940 --> 00:25:16,205
we would call in my
department praxis,

675
00:25:16,205 --> 00:25:18,620
which is this
kind of toggling

676
00:25:18,620 --> 00:25:19,820
reciprocal relationship

677
00:25:19,820 --> 00:25:21,995
between practice
and theory.

678
00:25:21,995 --> 00:25:22,939
Understanding

679
00:25:22,939 --> 00:25:24,469
something about what
we're trying to

680
00:25:24,469 --> 00:25:25,549
do and then being

681
00:25:25,549 --> 00:25:27,559
an action individually
and collectively,

682
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,389
collectively to
do that thing.

683
00:25:29,389 --> 00:25:31,280
And then again,
wondering about

684
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,299
that through a process of

685
00:25:32,299 --> 00:25:33,905
critical reflection.

686
00:25:33,905 --> 00:25:36,469
It's my hope that
my participation on

687
00:25:36,469 --> 00:25:38,990
the re-imagine committee
will bring some

688
00:25:38,990 --> 00:25:41,899
of those kinds of
commitments to that group

689
00:25:41,899 --> 00:25:44,060
into the larger task groups

690
00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:45,724
that will be part
of the work.

691
00:25:45,724 --> 00:25:47,584
For anyone who
might not know.

692
00:25:47,584 --> 00:25:48,769
I'm just going to
give a little bit of

693
00:25:48,769 --> 00:25:50,479
the history that in I

694
00:25:50,479 --> 00:25:53,809
believe it was the
20132014 academic year,

695
00:25:53,809 --> 00:25:55,759
are the then president of

696
00:25:55,759 --> 00:25:59,914
Portland State
initiated what he

697
00:25:59,914 --> 00:26:02,540
suggested was an
actual process to

698
00:26:02,540 --> 00:26:04,220
determine whether or not

699
00:26:04,220 --> 00:26:06,980
Campus Public Safety
officers would be armed.

700
00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:10,309
Despite much resistance to

701
00:26:10,309 --> 00:26:11,990
that idea and a lot of

702
00:26:11,990 --> 00:26:14,060
organizing on the
part of students,

703
00:26:14,060 --> 00:26:17,255
staff, faculty,
administrators.

704
00:26:17,255 --> 00:26:20,210
That decision was This

705
00:26:20,210 --> 00:26:21,680
is my language
pushed through,

706
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,664
was sort of forced
upon the community.

707
00:26:24,664 --> 00:26:29,419
And there was a lot
of resulting grief,

708
00:26:29,419 --> 00:26:33,485
anger about that, a lot of

709
00:26:33,485 --> 00:26:36,470
much sense that
there would not

710
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:39,694
be a good result
to that decision.

711
00:26:39,694 --> 00:26:42,080
In 2014 is when
I believe sepia,

712
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,499
so officers began
carrying firearms and

713
00:26:45,499 --> 00:26:47,239
2018 saw the killing

714
00:26:47,239 --> 00:26:48,920
of Jason Washington
on our campus,

715
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,179
which we continue
actively to grieve as,

716
00:26:53,179 --> 00:26:54,470
as an institution and as

717
00:26:54,470 --> 00:26:56,570
individuals at
this institution,

718
00:26:56,570 --> 00:26:58,159
there's certainly
been activism

719
00:26:58,159 --> 00:26:59,585
all along the way.

720
00:26:59,585 --> 00:27:02,239
Organized and
less organized,

721
00:27:02,239 --> 00:27:03,500
formal and informal.

722
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:05,150
And certainly following

723
00:27:05,150 --> 00:27:06,830
the death of
JSON Washington,

724
00:27:06,830 --> 00:27:10,099
there was a renewed
sense of optimism,

725
00:27:10,099 --> 00:27:12,349
disarm PSU and other kinds

726
00:27:12,349 --> 00:27:14,360
of groups really seeking

727
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,669
to engage in efforts

728
00:27:16,669 --> 00:27:20,639
to have Portland State
change its policy.

729
00:27:20,830 --> 00:27:24,575
And there was a
recommitment to that policy

730
00:27:24,575 --> 00:27:26,989
in the last 18 months or so

731
00:27:26,989 --> 00:27:28,324
year to 18 months.

732
00:27:28,324 --> 00:27:29,689
And then following
the murder of

733
00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:31,354
George Floyd this summer.

734
00:27:31,354 --> 00:27:33,439
As with so many
other things,

735
00:27:33,439 --> 00:27:35,720
there has been some
shifts on our campus,

736
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,759
so I'm assuming folks

737
00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:39,050
know that there's
a commitment

738
00:27:39,050 --> 00:27:39,985
on the part of sepia.

739
00:27:39,985 --> 00:27:42,170
So now to disarm,

740
00:27:42,170 --> 00:27:44,960
I understand that that
public safety officers

741
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,439
are still carrying
firearms now,

742
00:27:48,439 --> 00:27:51,019
but that in coming
weeks that will end as

743
00:27:51,019 --> 00:27:53,689
the as general
counsel and I

744
00:27:53,689 --> 00:27:55,009
believe probably some union

745
00:27:55,009 --> 00:27:57,079
negotiating is
happening around that.

746
00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:00,409
I so that's my
understanding

747
00:28:00,409 --> 00:28:03,694
is that the disarming
is imminent.

748
00:28:03,694 --> 00:28:05,900
And in the meantime,
what has been

749
00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:07,640
happening is that
President Percy has

750
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,639
called together a
group to become

751
00:28:10,639 --> 00:28:11,990
a steering team for

752
00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:15,005
the re-imagine campus
safety committee.

753
00:28:15,005 --> 00:28:17,450
I served on that
steering team at

754
00:28:17,450 --> 00:28:18,860
the invitation
of the President

755
00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:20,719
as a representative
of the faculty.

756
00:28:20,719 --> 00:28:21,860
One of the roles that I'm

757
00:28:21,860 --> 00:28:23,330
playing this here at PSU

758
00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:24,920
is the presiding officer

759
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,614
elect of faculty senate.

760
00:28:26,614 --> 00:28:28,115
And so in that role,

761
00:28:28,115 --> 00:28:30,919
president Percy reached
out to me to serve

762
00:28:30,919 --> 00:28:33,590
on the steering team
along with Jose Cole,

763
00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:34,729
who is the dean of

764
00:28:34,729 --> 00:28:36,410
the School of
Social Work at

765
00:28:36,410 --> 00:28:38,329
Washington from
global diversity and

766
00:28:38,329 --> 00:28:40,310
inclusion and
motorists appellee,

767
00:28:40,310 --> 00:28:42,860
who is the SPS you
president for this year.

768
00:28:42,860 --> 00:28:44,479
So representation

769
00:28:44,479 --> 00:28:46,520
on that committee
from administration,

770
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,234
faculty, staff,
and students.

771
00:28:49,234 --> 00:28:51,079
And what I'd
like to do with

772
00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:53,480
my remaining time is
share a little bit about

773
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,070
the process and
the structure

774
00:28:55,070 --> 00:28:56,944
and what we've been
doing to this point

775
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:59,780
because we have
been working

776
00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:02,000
and we know that
we have not

777
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,619
communicated
very much about

778
00:29:03,619 --> 00:29:04,910
how that work has gone.

779
00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:06,230
And so I'm going to share

780
00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:07,790
a little bit about
how that work has

781
00:29:07,790 --> 00:29:09,620
gone and what's
coming up in the in

782
00:29:09,620 --> 00:29:12,110
the incoming days,
literally coming days.

783
00:29:12,110 --> 00:29:14,870
So the committee that
steering team has been

784
00:29:14,870 --> 00:29:17,749
meeting with President
Percy and Kevin

785
00:29:17,749 --> 00:29:20,510
nearly from the
President's office six or

786
00:29:20,510 --> 00:29:22,009
seven times

787
00:29:22,009 --> 00:29:25,145
since the committee
was first formed.

788
00:29:25,145 --> 00:29:26,870
We've been working
hard to develop

789
00:29:26,870 --> 00:29:28,340
a framing document for

790
00:29:28,340 --> 00:29:29,600
the work of the remade,

791
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,270
re-imagined Campus
Safety Committee.

792
00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:38,030
We have negotiated what
that that must be,

793
00:29:38,030 --> 00:29:39,830
what how we must name.

794
00:29:39,830 --> 00:29:43,325
Not just that we
are hoping to avoid

795
00:29:43,325 --> 00:29:45,139
certain outcomes or avoid

796
00:29:45,139 --> 00:29:47,254
get away from situations
we don't want.

797
00:29:47,254 --> 00:29:49,249
But much as I'm a said,

798
00:29:49,249 --> 00:29:50,630
how do we actually come

799
00:29:50,630 --> 00:29:52,520
together and name a
vision for what we do?

800
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,249
What? I think many,

801
00:29:55,249 --> 00:29:56,630
if not most of us,

802
00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:58,699
would say that we don't

803
00:29:58,699 --> 00:30:01,564
want Campus Public
Safety to remain armed,

804
00:30:01,564 --> 00:30:05,224
that we don't want a
return to that mode of.

805
00:30:05,224 --> 00:30:07,834
Securing our
campus community.

806
00:30:07,834 --> 00:30:10,145
We know certainly
that we don't want

807
00:30:10,145 --> 00:30:12,844
any more violence and
killing on our campus.

808
00:30:12,844 --> 00:30:15,319
But I think we
often stop short of

809
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:17,269
collectively
imagining a vision

810
00:30:17,269 --> 00:30:19,309
for what we want instead.

811
00:30:19,309 --> 00:30:21,185
So how is it that we build

812
00:30:21,185 --> 00:30:23,929
a campus community
that is marked by

813
00:30:23,929 --> 00:30:27,680
welcome and the possibility
for belonging for

814
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,484
all persons and
an experience

815
00:30:30,484 --> 00:30:32,135
of safety and security.

816
00:30:32,135 --> 00:30:33,965
That also means
that we have

817
00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:35,449
a radical kind
of welcome and

818
00:30:35,449 --> 00:30:37,144
belonging on our campus.

819
00:30:37,144 --> 00:30:39,949
So many of our conversations
have focused on

820
00:30:39,949 --> 00:30:42,800
how we might build
that community,

821
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,480
knowing that we are

822
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,034
quite a pluralistic
place and institution.

823
00:30:48,034 --> 00:30:50,210
We've attempted in
the framing document,

824
00:30:50,210 --> 00:30:51,440
which you will see,

825
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,570
I believe we're
releasing it next week.

826
00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:55,940
How we've attempted
to articulate what

827
00:30:55,940 --> 00:30:58,010
that process might be

828
00:30:58,010 --> 00:30:59,839
that helps us to get there.

829
00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:02,779
And in addition to
the framing document,

830
00:31:02,779 --> 00:31:04,190
what will also
happen is that

831
00:31:04,190 --> 00:31:06,199
you'll see come across

832
00:31:06,199 --> 00:31:07,939
your Portland State
email if you are

833
00:31:07,939 --> 00:31:09,049
a member of the

834
00:31:09,049 --> 00:31:11,344
Portland State
community directly,

835
00:31:11,344 --> 00:31:14,690
a self nomination
opportunity.

836
00:31:14,690 --> 00:31:17,105
So what we are

837
00:31:17,105 --> 00:31:19,220
inviting members of
the campus community

838
00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:21,124
to do is to self nominate,

839
00:31:21,124 --> 00:31:23,135
to participate on
the re-imagine

840
00:31:23,135 --> 00:31:25,415
Campus Public
Safety Project.

841
00:31:25,415 --> 00:31:27,200
And there'll be multiple
ways to do that.

842
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,960
One would be two, nominate

843
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,510
to be on that
committee itself,

844
00:31:31,510 --> 00:31:34,390
which will be 12
to 15 persons.

845
00:31:34,390 --> 00:31:37,119
You'll see in the
framing document

846
00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:39,565
that we explicitly name

847
00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:43,000
units and statuses
on campus

848
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,545
that we expect
to see abrupt

849
00:31:44,545 --> 00:31:46,360
represented on
that committee,

850
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,710
including membership from

851
00:31:47,710 --> 00:31:49,810
the School of gender,
race and nations.

852
00:31:49,810 --> 00:31:52,180
Including membership
from students,

853
00:31:52,180 --> 00:31:54,819
faculty and staff
at all ranks,

854
00:31:54,819 --> 00:31:58,899
including from the from

855
00:31:58,899 --> 00:32:01,299
folks who serve as
academic professional.

856
00:32:01,299 --> 00:32:03,040
So where we've attempted to

857
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,950
create the framing
for a committee

858
00:32:05,950 --> 00:32:08,440
that is both expansive
and inclusive of

859
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,530
persons across
the varieties

860
00:32:10,530 --> 00:32:12,554
of ways that we
belong to our campus.

861
00:32:12,554 --> 00:32:14,280
In addition to
that committee,

862
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,290
there'll be four
task groups that

863
00:32:16,290 --> 00:32:18,434
will be formed to
carry out the work

864
00:32:18,434 --> 00:32:21,000
of imagining and
then developing

865
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,664
a framework for what

866
00:32:22,664 --> 00:32:24,060
campus public safety can

867
00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:25,380
look like going forward.

868
00:32:25,380 --> 00:32:27,120
And those task groups are

869
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,144
going to be looking
at things like,

870
00:32:29,144 --> 00:32:32,940
how do we deal with
the fact that we're

871
00:32:32,940 --> 00:32:34,859
an urban campus and we

872
00:32:34,859 --> 00:32:36,479
sometimes have visitors to

873
00:32:36,479 --> 00:32:37,979
our campus who
are in distress.

874
00:32:37,979 --> 00:32:39,030
How do we do that and

875
00:32:39,030 --> 00:32:41,114
maintain a sense of
welcome and belonging?

876
00:32:41,114 --> 00:32:43,649
How do we provide
for the safety and

877
00:32:43,649 --> 00:32:45,029
security of folks who

878
00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:46,784
work and study in
our buildings.

879
00:32:46,784 --> 00:32:48,899
How do we deal with

880
00:32:48,899 --> 00:32:51,750
potential difficult
situations where

881
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:53,700
violence is
being brought to

882
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:55,395
our campus and how

883
00:32:55,395 --> 00:32:57,419
shall we have a
response to that?

884
00:32:57,419 --> 00:32:59,010
So there'll be forced four

885
00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:00,224
task groups at all.

886
00:33:00,224 --> 00:33:02,279
And we're going to
invite self nomination

887
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:04,679
for working on those
task groups as well.

888
00:33:04,679 --> 00:33:06,690
So when you see that
self nomination

889
00:33:06,690 --> 00:33:08,204
and you feel inspired

890
00:33:08,204 --> 00:33:09,870
to share your experience

891
00:33:09,870 --> 00:33:11,609
and expertise on
the committee,

892
00:33:11,609 --> 00:33:13,050
you'll be able
to say I'd like

893
00:33:13,050 --> 00:33:14,685
to be part of the
committee itself.

894
00:33:14,685 --> 00:33:16,319
Or you could say,
I'd like to be

895
00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:18,344
part of a task
group or both.

896
00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:19,919
The members of the
committee itself

897
00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:21,675
will serve on
the task groups.

898
00:33:21,675 --> 00:33:23,970
The role of the steering
team will be to,

899
00:33:23,970 --> 00:33:26,640
to bridge those bodies

900
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,440
with the president's
office and with

901
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,270
the Board of Trustees
going forward.

902
00:33:30,270 --> 00:33:32,429
And to serve really
in a role that helps

903
00:33:32,429 --> 00:33:34,635
to be a liaison in,

904
00:33:34,635 --> 00:33:36,825
in all of those
different directions.

905
00:33:36,825 --> 00:33:38,550
This work will
be recognized

906
00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,619
materially and the details

907
00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:41,820
of that are still
getting worked out.

908
00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:43,530
That's part of the reason
that we haven't yet

909
00:33:43,530 --> 00:33:45,240
released the
self nomination,

910
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,995
but we know that there
are that persons are.

911
00:33:49,995 --> 00:33:51,465
Here's a faculty member

912
00:33:51,465 --> 00:33:53,039
speaking in the first
week of the term

913
00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:54,540
that most of us
are overworked

914
00:33:54,540 --> 00:33:56,370
in our jobs at PSU,

915
00:33:56,370 --> 00:33:58,964
no matter how we're
located on our campus.

916
00:33:58,964 --> 00:34:00,930
And we know that this work,

917
00:34:00,930 --> 00:34:02,144
as we say in the document,

918
00:34:02,144 --> 00:34:04,049
is essential,

919
00:34:04,049 --> 00:34:07,739
is, is difficult and
is consequential.

920
00:34:07,739 --> 00:34:10,619
And we know that we
need to recognize that.

921
00:34:10,619 --> 00:34:13,169
So there will be
material recognition for

922
00:34:13,169 --> 00:34:16,799
folks to participate
on those committees.

923
00:34:16,799 --> 00:34:19,080
There will also
be an opportunity

924
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,059
for folks if they choose to

925
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,520
donate that
recognition back

926
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,295
to equity funds at
Portland State.

927
00:34:26,295 --> 00:34:28,950
I'm going to be donating

928
00:34:28,950 --> 00:34:31,155
the material benefit
that I would get from,

929
00:34:31,155 --> 00:34:32,820
from the recognition
that I'm

930
00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:34,649
receiving from my
work and think it's

931
00:34:34,649 --> 00:34:36,899
a way that in particular
white folks can

932
00:34:36,899 --> 00:34:40,740
be using the kind of
material benefit that we

933
00:34:40,740 --> 00:34:43,590
can often rely
on getting to

934
00:34:43,590 --> 00:34:45,330
support BIPAP students in

935
00:34:45,330 --> 00:34:47,549
particular, our campus.

936
00:34:47,549 --> 00:34:50,729
So I want to invite
you if you feel

937
00:34:50,729 --> 00:34:53,489
inspired to join
in this work and,

938
00:34:53,489 --> 00:34:55,709
and to collaborate
across difference.

939
00:34:55,709 --> 00:34:58,350
To really try to
imagine a PSU where

940
00:34:58,350 --> 00:35:01,005
folks can
experience welcome,

941
00:35:01,005 --> 00:35:03,825
belonging, safety,
and security.

942
00:35:03,825 --> 00:35:06,824
Than we would love to
have you self nominate,

943
00:35:06,824 --> 00:35:09,374
nominate, and work
with you in that way.

944
00:35:09,374 --> 00:35:10,920
I'm also happy to serve in

945
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,989
my role as a point of

946
00:35:12,989 --> 00:35:16,380
contact to the
president's office

947
00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:17,999
and the Board of Trustees.

948
00:35:17,999 --> 00:35:19,889
I'll put have maybe

949
00:35:19,889 --> 00:35:20,969
somebody can put

950
00:35:20,969 --> 00:35:22,469
my email address
in the chat.

951
00:35:22,469 --> 00:35:26,460
Folks are welcome to
reach out to me to have

952
00:35:26,460 --> 00:35:28,559
some conversation
so that I can be

953
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:29,790
listening to those
perspectives

954
00:35:29,790 --> 00:35:31,049
and carry them forward.

955
00:35:31,049 --> 00:35:32,369
I'll stop there and turn it

956
00:35:32,369 --> 00:35:34,690
back over to you,
Todd. Thank you.

957
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,959
Thank you so much.
Thank you both for

958
00:35:36,959 --> 00:35:38,340
the framing that as well.

959
00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:39,749
It's kinda telling
us the activity

960
00:35:39,749 --> 00:35:40,799
and kind of where
we're going.

961
00:35:40,799 --> 00:35:42,734
And I appreciate that.

962
00:35:42,734 --> 00:35:44,490
Again as question, question

963
00:35:44,490 --> 00:35:45,509
answers are
starting to roll

964
00:35:45,509 --> 00:35:46,710
and also in the
chat box and

965
00:35:46,710 --> 00:35:48,000
Q and a and on
the backside.

966
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,424
So as you come up
with questions,

967
00:35:49,424 --> 00:35:51,404
any open questions
for our panelists?

968
00:35:51,404 --> 00:35:52,710
Please start sending them

969
00:35:52,710 --> 00:35:54,629
our way and we'll, we'll
get to those soon.

970
00:35:54,629 --> 00:35:58,059
So next up, Ted and Angela.

971
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,609
Go ahead to I'm going to

972
00:36:05,609 --> 00:36:07,514
let you go first, angela.

973
00:36:07,514 --> 00:36:10,109
Ok. Too much talking
on the part of bed has

974
00:36:10,109 --> 00:36:11,340
got us to the point where

975
00:36:11,340 --> 00:36:13,289
we're in right
now, so okay.

976
00:36:13,289 --> 00:36:14,850
My name is Angela Canton.

977
00:36:14,850 --> 00:36:16,499
I use she her pronouns.

978
00:36:16,499 --> 00:36:21,329
I've been on campus
since the fall of 1996.

979
00:36:21,329 --> 00:36:24,389
I came in as an
incoming freshmen,

980
00:36:24,389 --> 00:36:26,879
and I have yet to leave.

981
00:36:26,879 --> 00:36:31,260
I've been working at
PSU for 20 years.

982
00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:32,490
Coming up in January,

983
00:36:32,490 --> 00:36:36,330
I started off as a
student worker in

984
00:36:36,330 --> 00:36:38,129
the black studies
department and then I

985
00:36:38,129 --> 00:36:41,085
became the office
coordinator.

986
00:36:41,085 --> 00:36:44,579
There. And with
in that position,

987
00:36:44,579 --> 00:36:46,439
I took on the
responsibility

988
00:36:46,439 --> 00:36:48,464
of providing
administrative support to

989
00:36:48,464 --> 00:36:50,490
qualitative studies
when they moved

990
00:36:50,490 --> 00:36:54,165
into the suite that
we were located in.

991
00:36:54,165 --> 00:36:58,260
And then when the school

992
00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:03,225
became a initiative
in 2005,

993
00:37:03,225 --> 00:37:04,409
I was providing the

994
00:37:04,409 --> 00:37:05,834
administrative
support for that.

995
00:37:05,834 --> 00:37:08,129
It got put on hold for

996
00:37:08,129 --> 00:37:11,010
awhile and then it
revamped again in 2009.

997
00:37:11,010 --> 00:37:12,690
And so I started to do

998
00:37:12,690 --> 00:37:14,610
the midday support then in

999
00:37:14,610 --> 00:37:17,834
2009 with the unit
heads at the time.

1000
00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:21,075
And in October of 2010,

1001
00:37:21,075 --> 00:37:22,529
all four of the units,

1002
00:37:22,529 --> 00:37:24,675
black studies,
Latino studies.

1003
00:37:24,675 --> 00:37:26,444
I'm Native American studies

1004
00:37:26,444 --> 00:37:27,884
at the time now in niches,

1005
00:37:27,884 --> 00:37:30,164
Nation Studies and
Women Studies.

1006
00:37:30,164 --> 00:37:32,189
Now women, gender and
sexuality studies

1007
00:37:32,189 --> 00:37:33,479
all moved over

1008
00:37:33,479 --> 00:37:35,534
to the park Mill

1009
00:37:35,534 --> 00:37:36,749
building so

1010
00:37:36,749 --> 00:37:38,310
everybody could be
housed together,

1011
00:37:38,310 --> 00:37:39,360
which was formerly the

1012
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,025
Extended Studies building.

1013
00:37:41,025 --> 00:37:43,080
And currently I'm
working with Ted and

1014
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,779
several other faculty
members do in providing

1015
00:37:45,779 --> 00:37:47,759
the administrative
support for

1016
00:37:47,759 --> 00:37:49,290
the cluster higher to

1017
00:37:49,290 --> 00:37:51,075
higher seven new faculty

1018
00:37:51,075 --> 00:37:53,009
in the School of gender,
race, and nations.

1019
00:37:53,009 --> 00:37:55,680
And our theme that
the community

1020
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:56,790
came up with is

1021
00:37:56,790 --> 00:37:58,439
critical thought
and activism.

1022
00:37:58,439 --> 00:38:02,175
And some of the
themes are futurism,

1023
00:38:02,175 --> 00:38:04,080
histories of
resistance protesting,

1024
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,365
community struggle,
ecology, intensification,

1025
00:38:07,365 --> 00:38:08,625
critical theory,

1026
00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:11,325
transformational
scholarship.

1027
00:38:11,325 --> 00:38:13,770
And then I will turn
it over to Ted,

1028
00:38:13,770 --> 00:38:16,364
so there'll be time
for questions.

1029
00:38:16,364 --> 00:38:18,315
Thanks, Angela.

1030
00:38:18,315 --> 00:38:20,400
We're super happy to have

1031
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,844
you working with us
in the school and

1032
00:38:22,844 --> 00:38:25,980
really value all
that you bring to

1033
00:38:25,980 --> 00:38:27,660
the job and to

1034
00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:29,520
our lives professionally
and academically.

1035
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,810
So thank you for that.

1036
00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:34,469
I guess I can

1037
00:38:34,469 --> 00:38:36,989
expand a little bit
on this cluster hire.

1038
00:38:36,989 --> 00:38:38,760
There's been
some talk and we

1039
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,144
are in the process
of formerly

1040
00:38:41,144 --> 00:38:43,769
releasing the
information about

1041
00:38:43,769 --> 00:38:46,290
the positions, the
position descriptions.

1042
00:38:46,290 --> 00:38:49,874
These represent
hires across

1043
00:38:49,874 --> 00:38:51,854
the departments
of the school.

1044
00:38:51,854 --> 00:38:54,059
Will three departments
of one program.

1045
00:38:54,059 --> 00:38:55,529
It's kinda Latino
studies for

1046
00:38:55,529 --> 00:38:57,120
the moment is a program,

1047
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,005
Black Studies,

1048
00:38:58,005 --> 00:38:59,519
Indigenous nations
studies in women,

1049
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:00,570
gender and
sexuality studies

1050
00:39:00,570 --> 00:39:02,385
are all departmental
status.

1051
00:39:02,385 --> 00:39:05,999
But at any rate,
everyone is going to

1052
00:39:05,999 --> 00:39:07,515
experience for

1053
00:39:07,515 --> 00:39:10,154
us some pretty
dramatic growth.

1054
00:39:10,154 --> 00:39:11,849
In a lot of ways.

1055
00:39:11,849 --> 00:39:13,320
It's a long time coming.

1056
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,615
And I think about
this historically,

1057
00:39:15,615 --> 00:39:17,535
most of our disciplines

1058
00:39:17,535 --> 00:39:19,604
are above 50 years
old now it's

1059
00:39:19,604 --> 00:39:23,699
five decades worth of
existence in the world.

1060
00:39:23,699 --> 00:39:25,470
And so when we think
about disciplines

1061
00:39:25,470 --> 00:39:27,960
like maybe sociology, say,

1062
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,250
did they have to wait until

1063
00:39:29,250 --> 00:39:30,720
the 19 seventies to

1064
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,824
get a couple extra
tenure track lines.

1065
00:39:33,824 --> 00:39:35,220
And the answer is no.

1066
00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:37,094
So for us,

1067
00:39:37,094 --> 00:39:39,795
this is really an
important moment.

1068
00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:41,519
It's also an
important moment that

1069
00:39:41,519 --> 00:39:46,965
the school retain its
autonomous nature.

1070
00:39:46,965 --> 00:39:50,370
Both both intellectually
and academically,

1071
00:39:50,370 --> 00:39:51,989
but also that the
departments within

1072
00:39:51,989 --> 00:39:54,630
the school remain Stand
Alone departments.

1073
00:39:54,630 --> 00:39:56,355
It's important to
understand that

1074
00:39:56,355 --> 00:39:57,360
that black studies and

1075
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,470
indigenous nation studies

1076
00:39:58,470 --> 00:40:01,110
have very different
concerns and

1077
00:40:01,110 --> 00:40:03,509
experiences from
Chicano Latino Studies

1078
00:40:03,509 --> 00:40:03,809
and from

1079
00:40:03,809 --> 00:40:05,219
women's gender and
sexuality studies.

1080
00:40:05,219 --> 00:40:08,534
These are really
though allied,

1081
00:40:08,534 --> 00:40:09,869
different programs and

1082
00:40:09,869 --> 00:40:11,340
different departments with

1083
00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:14,610
different intellectual
and cultural concerns.

1084
00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:16,380
So it's important that we

1085
00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:18,629
maintain those distinctions,
but its really.

1086
00:40:18,629 --> 00:40:20,729
Important for, for this,

1087
00:40:20,729 --> 00:40:22,830
for PSU, now for the school

1088
00:40:22,830 --> 00:40:24,959
that we make these
investments now,

1089
00:40:24,959 --> 00:40:27,660
we can see in the
enrollment across

1090
00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:30,359
our department's Growth in

1091
00:40:30,359 --> 00:40:32,130
a Time of contraction

1092
00:40:32,130 --> 00:40:34,395
for a lot of other
departments in the School.

1093
00:40:34,395 --> 00:40:36,105
The ecologists healthy, but

1094
00:40:36,105 --> 00:40:38,219
our departments
in particular are

1095
00:40:38,219 --> 00:40:39,779
experiencing
anywhere from ten to

1096
00:40:39,779 --> 00:40:43,409
40% increases in
student contact hours.

1097
00:40:43,409 --> 00:40:45,420
That's really
dramatic, right?

1098
00:40:45,420 --> 00:40:48,390
And so kind of
kind of saying,

1099
00:40:48,390 --> 00:40:49,560
we need to meet
students where

1100
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:50,940
they're at and what
they're concerned

1101
00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:53,910
about is now actually
coming into,

1102
00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:55,979
into the physical world and

1103
00:40:55,979 --> 00:40:57,570
we're seeing demand
from students.

1104
00:40:57,570 --> 00:41:00,270
So the timing is
really excellent.

1105
00:41:00,270 --> 00:41:02,370
Putting these
hires together,

1106
00:41:02,370 --> 00:41:04,799
I hope is that the school

1107
00:41:04,799 --> 00:41:08,430
becomes a sort of a
hub in the broader,

1108
00:41:08,430 --> 00:41:11,340
wider wheel that
turns at PSU.

1109
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:12,930
And so, once we can sort

1110
00:41:12,930 --> 00:41:15,900
of secure the foundations
of the school than,

1111
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,624
than those spokes
from those

1112
00:41:17,624 --> 00:41:19,800
that come from
that can begin to

1113
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,650
imagine joint hires and

1114
00:41:22,650 --> 00:41:23,699
shared lines and all

1115
00:41:23,699 --> 00:41:24,540
of those things that make

1116
00:41:24,540 --> 00:41:27,029
for really a really
vibrant place.

1117
00:41:27,029 --> 00:41:28,619
And I'll just
say that I think

1118
00:41:28,619 --> 00:41:30,614
it's important to, for,

1119
00:41:30,614 --> 00:41:33,134
for PSU to understand

1120
00:41:33,134 --> 00:41:35,115
that it has a
unique position

1121
00:41:35,115 --> 00:41:36,419
as an urban university.

1122
00:41:36,419 --> 00:41:37,829
There's not a ton of those.

1123
00:41:37,829 --> 00:41:39,750
And that given

1124
00:41:39,750 --> 00:41:41,009
the amount of
transfer students

1125
00:41:41,009 --> 00:41:44,430
and first gen
students that we sir,

1126
00:41:44,430 --> 00:41:46,380
we have a real,

1127
00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:48,540
not just an
urgency but, but,

1128
00:41:48,540 --> 00:41:50,580
but an opportunity
to to meet

1129
00:41:50,580 --> 00:41:53,129
student demand right
here, right now.

1130
00:41:53,129 --> 00:41:54,660
And I'm glad to be

1131
00:41:54,660 --> 00:41:56,789
part of an institution
that's doing that.

1132
00:41:56,789 --> 00:41:58,620
I'm glad that we
have leadership

1133
00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:01,130
that recognizes that
we need to do this.

1134
00:42:01,130 --> 00:42:04,020
And in thinking about
a talk that we did

1135
00:42:04,020 --> 00:42:06,809
last week for
incoming students,

1136
00:42:06,809 --> 00:42:08,804
for Multicultural
Student Services.

1137
00:42:08,804 --> 00:42:10,649
There are over
a 100 students,

1138
00:42:10,649 --> 00:42:12,389
about a 100105 students

1139
00:42:12,389 --> 00:42:13,889
that came to this sort of

1140
00:42:13,889 --> 00:42:16,170
zoomed webinar and looking

1141
00:42:16,170 --> 00:42:17,834
at the students and
seeing what we had,

1142
00:42:17,834 --> 00:42:19,950
about 80 of those students

1143
00:42:19,950 --> 00:42:21,525
were Chicano
Latino students.

1144
00:42:21,525 --> 00:42:24,209
So this is a huge
demographic shift

1145
00:42:24,209 --> 00:42:25,499
we really need to meet.

1146
00:42:25,499 --> 00:42:26,550
And one of the things that

1147
00:42:26,550 --> 00:42:27,825
I'm excited about is,

1148
00:42:27,825 --> 00:42:30,164
is we're looking at adding

1149
00:42:30,164 --> 00:42:32,370
two new tenure
track lines and

1150
00:42:32,370 --> 00:42:33,839
Chicano Latino Studies and

1151
00:42:33,839 --> 00:42:35,190
doing another
conversion as well.

1152
00:42:35,190 --> 00:42:37,575
So this is the kind
of thing that, that,

1153
00:42:37,575 --> 00:42:39,540
that an institution needs

1154
00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:42,194
to understand about
its students,

1155
00:42:42,194 --> 00:42:44,310
needs to meet, needs
to anticipate,

1156
00:42:44,310 --> 00:42:46,050
and it needs to take
care of business.

1157
00:42:46,050 --> 00:42:47,910
And I think PSU is on

1158
00:42:47,910 --> 00:42:48,660
the road right now

1159
00:42:48,660 --> 00:42:50,129
to taking care of business,

1160
00:42:50,129 --> 00:42:52,259
which is something we
need to do to serve

1161
00:42:52,259 --> 00:42:53,309
our students and to

1162
00:42:53,309 --> 00:42:55,304
serve our city
more broadly.

1163
00:42:55,304 --> 00:42:56,700
And so I'm looking at

1164
00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:58,710
the time and I know
there are questions,

1165
00:42:58,710 --> 00:42:59,745
so I'm just going to

1166
00:42:59,745 --> 00:43:01,619
talking and I'm
going to turn

1167
00:43:01,619 --> 00:43:02,879
it back over to Todd and

1168
00:43:02,879 --> 00:43:03,839
hopefully we can answer

1169
00:43:03,839 --> 00:43:04,740
some questions for you all.

1170
00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:08,669
And thanks for being
here. Great. Thank you

1171
00:43:08,669 --> 00:43:10,110
both Ted and
Angela for framing

1172
00:43:10,110 --> 00:43:11,849
what's going on in
schools under a sneeze.

1173
00:43:11,849 --> 00:43:13,770
And again, thank you
all AMI and Vicki and

1174
00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:14,579
Ted and Angela for

1175
00:43:14,579 --> 00:43:16,004
joining us in
this first panel.

1176
00:43:16,004 --> 00:43:17,429
So we have a series
of questions

1177
00:43:17,429 --> 00:43:19,005
that come in and
I'm just going to

1178
00:43:19,005 --> 00:43:20,730
pitch up the questions
and I'm hoping

1179
00:43:20,730 --> 00:43:22,169
any of you can dress them

1180
00:43:22,169 --> 00:43:23,220
and perhaps all of you will

1181
00:43:23,220 --> 00:43:25,350
address them, which
would be outstanding.

1182
00:43:25,350 --> 00:43:26,730
So, you know

1183
00:43:26,730 --> 00:43:28,274
the first question
that's coming in.

1184
00:43:28,274 --> 00:43:29,760
And I've actually
been hearing

1185
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,589
this question a lot
coming from students.

1186
00:43:31,589 --> 00:43:32,819
Actually, just
as much as I'm

1187
00:43:32,819 --> 00:43:34,365
hearing from
faculty and staff.

1188
00:43:34,365 --> 00:43:36,794
Which is really kinda
Amir's point is,

1189
00:43:36,794 --> 00:43:39,705
how can we proactively
frame our vision?

1190
00:43:39,705 --> 00:43:41,400
How do we proactively
frame who we

1191
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,335
want to be as
an institution?

1192
00:43:43,335 --> 00:43:45,480
And what can we
do now so that in

1193
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,635
the future we can be

1194
00:43:46,635 --> 00:43:48,765
proactive rather
than reactive.

1195
00:43:48,765 --> 00:43:51,089
Just kinda curious from
the different lenses

1196
00:43:51,089 --> 00:43:52,800
and spaces that you occupy,

1197
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,344
how you might address
that question

1198
00:43:54,344 --> 00:43:55,319
and maybe think about

1199
00:43:55,319 --> 00:43:56,295
too from a student lens,

1200
00:43:56,295 --> 00:43:57,450
because this is a question

1201
00:43:57,450 --> 00:43:59,439
that keeps coming up.

1202
00:44:03,980 --> 00:44:08,220
Anybody wanna go out? So I

1203
00:44:08,220 --> 00:44:09,960
will speak from
my positionality

1204
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,325
as an administrator.

1205
00:44:11,325 --> 00:44:15,640
I think that
folks like Todd,

1206
00:44:15,710 --> 00:44:19,784
I think that we

1207
00:44:19,784 --> 00:44:23,550
get to articulate the
ROI pizza, right?

1208
00:44:23,550 --> 00:44:25,440
In a way that students
should not have too,

1209
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:26,609
in a way that
faculty should

1210
00:44:26,609 --> 00:44:27,705
not have to write it.

1211
00:44:27,705 --> 00:44:30,794
And so I've been
saying this,

1212
00:44:30,794 --> 00:44:32,099
when you come into
a new culture,

1213
00:44:32,099 --> 00:44:34,720
you want to be sure
that you're honoring,

1214
00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:37,470
honoring who's there and

1215
00:44:37,470 --> 00:44:39,149
the history and the
context that's there.

1216
00:44:39,149 --> 00:44:40,620
But, you know, if

1217
00:44:40,620 --> 00:44:42,389
we continually
talk about kind of

1218
00:44:42,389 --> 00:44:45,059
BIPAP communities as
kind of folks to be

1219
00:44:45,059 --> 00:44:48,900
given to the folks
who are struggling.

1220
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:51,149
I just write
there's so much

1221
00:44:51,149 --> 00:44:53,610
more to talk about saline

1222
00:44:53,610 --> 00:44:54,629
into confessions about

1223
00:44:54,629 --> 00:44:56,969
cultural wealth
and lean into

1224
00:44:56,969 --> 00:45:00,044
what having intercultural
fluency brains

1225
00:45:00,044 --> 00:45:01,980
like how this is an asset
in the marketplace.

1226
00:45:01,980 --> 00:45:03,270
So I think that there's

1227
00:45:03,270 --> 00:45:05,595
work that administrators
get to do

1228
00:45:05,595 --> 00:45:08,579
to justify the
priority raid

1229
00:45:08,579 --> 00:45:10,289
and and I think that's
our responsibility.

1230
00:45:10,289 --> 00:45:11,010
It's not yours.

1231
00:45:11,010 --> 00:45:12,990
If you're students, not who

1232
00:45:12,990 --> 00:45:14,220
will partner with you
if you're faculty.

1233
00:45:14,220 --> 00:45:17,759
But I think that
that's what

1234
00:45:17,759 --> 00:45:21,539
we do and I think of
as our priority shift.

1235
00:45:21,539 --> 00:45:24,299
We also get to
articulate what has

1236
00:45:24,299 --> 00:45:26,459
come from that prior
prioritisation.

1237
00:45:26,459 --> 00:45:28,359
So I'll stop there.

1238
00:45:33,130 --> 00:45:35,195
Go ahead and just

1239
00:45:35,195 --> 00:45:36,785
jump in. And
anytime panelist.

1240
00:45:36,785 --> 00:45:38,539
Sure. Well, thinking about

1241
00:45:38,539 --> 00:45:40,504
the question about
students doing this,

1242
00:45:40,504 --> 00:45:41,960
I would encourage students

1243
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,900
to really do everything
that you can,

1244
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:47,450
to claim every aspect

1245
00:45:47,450 --> 00:45:50,149
of your education and find

1246
00:45:50,149 --> 00:45:52,849
those places where you
can do the work that

1247
00:45:52,849 --> 00:45:54,620
you want to be about while

1248
00:45:54,620 --> 00:45:55,880
you're taking coursework.

1249
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,029
So choose explicitly
and intentionally

1250
00:45:59,029 --> 00:46:00,590
what faculty
members who study

1251
00:46:00,590 --> 00:46:02,630
with what kind of
courses you take.

1252
00:46:02,630 --> 00:46:04,280
Choose those
courses where you

1253
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,349
can be working on
projects where

1254
00:46:06,349 --> 00:46:09,980
you get credit for
forwarding a vision.

1255
00:46:09,980 --> 00:46:12,170
And you're actually
also engaging

1256
00:46:12,170 --> 00:46:14,629
in intellectual
and practical

1257
00:46:14,629 --> 00:46:15,864
work that you care about.

1258
00:46:15,864 --> 00:46:17,790
I think there are lots
of opportunities.

1259
00:46:17,790 --> 00:46:19,934
And so for the students
listening to this,

1260
00:46:19,934 --> 00:46:21,945
my emails now in the chat,

1261
00:46:21,945 --> 00:46:23,369
if you don't know how to do

1262
00:46:23,369 --> 00:46:24,389
that at Portland State,

1263
00:46:24,389 --> 00:46:25,530
if you want some some

1264
00:46:25,530 --> 00:46:27,809
assistance figuring
that out, email me.

1265
00:46:27,809 --> 00:46:29,310
I'll be happy to
chat with you,

1266
00:46:29,310 --> 00:46:31,889
email with you to
figure out how

1267
00:46:31,889 --> 00:46:34,500
from your positionality
as a student,

1268
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:36,870
can you maximize
the reach that

1269
00:46:36,870 --> 00:46:37,890
you have both within

1270
00:46:37,890 --> 00:46:39,584
our institution
and outside of it.

1271
00:46:39,584 --> 00:46:41,250
Because there are lots
of opportunities.

1272
00:46:41,250 --> 00:46:42,570
Many students at
Portland State,

1273
00:46:42,570 --> 00:46:44,265
given the size of
our institution,

1274
00:46:44,265 --> 00:46:46,079
don't necessarily know.

1275
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:47,549
We don't advertise
very well

1276
00:46:47,549 --> 00:46:50,069
how to do that within
the structures,

1277
00:46:50,069 --> 00:46:51,780
the curricular
structures we have.

1278
00:46:51,780 --> 00:46:53,700
But I have some ideas
about that and I'd be

1279
00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:54,780
happy to share those with

1280
00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:56,800
students in particular.

1281
00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,570
Anybody want to try
stab at this questions?

1282
00:47:06,570 --> 00:47:09,490
Practice framing
every weekend.

1283
00:47:11,780 --> 00:47:15,600
What I can say
about the school,

1284
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,769
gender, race and nations.

1285
00:47:16,769 --> 00:47:20,189
And in particular, the
higher that we're,

1286
00:47:20,189 --> 00:47:25,410
we're about to launch
asks for folks who

1287
00:47:25,410 --> 00:47:28,664
understand the history of

1288
00:47:28,664 --> 00:47:31,379
the history and the
histories of resistance,

1289
00:47:31,379 --> 00:47:33,120
of protest and activism of

1290
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,629
how things get done
in this country.

1291
00:47:36,629 --> 00:47:38,130
And in particular,

1292
00:47:38,130 --> 00:47:40,335
because Portland
is Portland,

1293
00:47:40,335 --> 00:47:43,365
and this is the way
we do things here.

1294
00:47:43,365 --> 00:47:46,680
There's really
quite a laboratory,

1295
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,789
like right down
the street from

1296
00:47:47,789 --> 00:47:49,259
where I live here, right?

1297
00:47:49,259 --> 00:47:50,880
So if you're a student

1298
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,410
and you're
interested in this,

1299
00:47:52,410 --> 00:47:55,769
I think we need to
understand that,

1300
00:47:55,769 --> 00:47:58,320
that part of our
society, right?

1301
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,064
And for me the school is,

1302
00:48:01,064 --> 00:48:03,539
is a sort of 21st
century place that is

1303
00:48:03,539 --> 00:48:06,344
looking at next
centuries issues, right?

1304
00:48:06,344 --> 00:48:09,240
Whether their gender, race,

1305
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:10,770
nationhood and
we're talking about

1306
00:48:10,770 --> 00:48:12,825
tribal nation, talking
about resources.

1307
00:48:12,825 --> 00:48:14,099
All of those
things that come

1308
00:48:14,099 --> 00:48:16,844
together are things
that we investigate

1309
00:48:16,844 --> 00:48:19,979
and analyze and engage
with at the school and

1310
00:48:19,979 --> 00:48:22,800
really deep and
intellectual waves.

1311
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,029
These are our disciplines.

1312
00:48:24,029 --> 00:48:26,220
And so the new hires
that we want to

1313
00:48:26,220 --> 00:48:28,619
bring in will have
that expertise,

1314
00:48:28,619 --> 00:48:31,440
but also will be
able to look at

1315
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,844
as at both at the past
and the future of,

1316
00:48:34,844 --> 00:48:38,550
of what resistance and
what caretaking and

1317
00:48:38,550 --> 00:48:40,619
what community
building looks

1318
00:48:40,619 --> 00:48:42,134
like in a different
and new world.

1319
00:48:42,134 --> 00:48:44,039
Because I'm hoping
that on the other side

1320
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:46,199
of what we're all
experiencing right now,

1321
00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:47,970
there is a different
way of doing things.

1322
00:48:47,970 --> 00:48:49,289
I don't think we can
go back to the way

1323
00:48:49,289 --> 00:48:50,985
we have been doing things.

1324
00:48:50,985 --> 00:48:52,950
That's not good enough
because that's gonna

1325
00:48:52,950 --> 00:48:55,124
put us right back
where we're at.

1326
00:48:55,124 --> 00:48:56,369
And that's not a place

1327
00:48:56,369 --> 00:48:57,540
that I want to return to.

1328
00:48:57,540 --> 00:48:59,250
So now's the time
they began to

1329
00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:01,650
build and re-imagine
that world.

1330
00:49:01,650 --> 00:49:02,550
And this is the place that

1331
00:49:02,550 --> 00:49:04,599
I think that we can do it.

1332
00:49:06,890 --> 00:49:08,729
Thank you for that.

1333
00:49:08,729 --> 00:49:09,959
And I'm going to
follow that up,

1334
00:49:09,959 --> 00:49:11,549
Ted and answer
the question I

1335
00:49:11,549 --> 00:49:13,740
think is mostly
directly to you.

1336
00:49:13,740 --> 00:49:15,194
The question really
says, you know,

1337
00:49:15,194 --> 00:49:17,279
I get the sense
that PSU School of

1338
00:49:17,279 --> 00:49:18,330
gender designations is

1339
00:49:18,330 --> 00:49:20,370
somehow really distinctive.

1340
00:49:20,370 --> 00:49:22,394
But I don't fully
understand it.

1341
00:49:22,394 --> 00:49:24,554
Why doesn't ethnic
studies work?

1342
00:49:24,554 --> 00:49:25,710
And the second question is,

1343
00:49:25,710 --> 00:49:26,789
why are separate and

1344
00:49:26,789 --> 00:49:28,154
autonomists departments

1345
00:49:28,154 --> 00:49:30,940
important in the work
that you all do.

1346
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:36,059
Originally when
it was brought

1347
00:49:36,059 --> 00:49:40,544
to the unit heads
to form school,

1348
00:49:40,544 --> 00:49:43,200
was came from the
Dean's Office

1349
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,149
at the time when
Marvin Kaiser

1350
00:49:45,149 --> 00:49:47,459
was the dean and grant

1351
00:49:47,459 --> 00:49:48,795
far was the lead

1352
00:49:48,795 --> 00:49:50,310
in it from the
Dean's office.

1353
00:49:50,310 --> 00:49:52,020
And he had brought it to

1354
00:49:52,020 --> 00:49:54,269
the chairs and directors
at the time and said

1355
00:49:54,269 --> 00:49:55,409
that ethnic studies and

1356
00:49:55,409 --> 00:49:56,969
everybody from

1357
00:49:56,969 --> 00:49:58,410
the unit heads and
then the faculty

1358
00:49:58,410 --> 00:49:59,490
that were in those units

1359
00:49:59,490 --> 00:50:01,079
were against that name

1360
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:03,869
because at the time

1361
00:50:03,869 --> 00:50:05,820
and still
currently probably

1362
00:50:05,820 --> 00:50:07,980
those members felt that if

1363
00:50:07,980 --> 00:50:09,900
they became an ethnic
studies school,

1364
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:13,034
that each unit would
lose its autonomy.

1365
00:50:13,034 --> 00:50:15,300
And the individuals

1366
00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:16,424
didn't want to
do that because

1367
00:50:16,424 --> 00:50:17,925
each of the disciplines

1368
00:50:17,925 --> 00:50:20,295
have their own focus areas.

1369
00:50:20,295 --> 00:50:23,054
And within those,
you could.

1370
00:50:23,054 --> 00:50:25,230
Probably branch
off of those with

1371
00:50:25,230 --> 00:50:27,045
black studies
you could habit

1372
00:50:27,045 --> 00:50:28,139
African-American Studies,

1373
00:50:28,139 --> 00:50:31,530
African, Caribbean,
African diaspora.

1374
00:50:31,530 --> 00:50:33,839
With indice nation studies,

1375
00:50:33,839 --> 00:50:35,819
there's branches off
that you can do.

1376
00:50:35,819 --> 00:50:37,320
So everybody wanted to

1377
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,885
remain in their
own units but

1378
00:50:39,885 --> 00:50:44,459
work together to make
change on campus.

1379
00:50:44,459 --> 00:50:46,950
So that was part of
the reason why they

1380
00:50:46,950 --> 00:50:49,500
didn't want to be
ethnic studies.

1381
00:50:49,500 --> 00:50:51,240
Because they felt
that if they

1382
00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:53,324
became an ethnic
studies school,

1383
00:50:53,324 --> 00:50:55,229
that the Dean's office

1384
00:50:55,229 --> 00:50:57,929
would fault everybody
into one unit and

1385
00:50:57,929 --> 00:51:01,020
budgets would be cut and
positions eliminated

1386
00:51:01,020 --> 00:51:02,999
because they were
one unit and they

1387
00:51:02,999 --> 00:51:06,040
weren't for individual
units anymore.

1388
00:51:06,710 --> 00:51:09,930
I guess I want to add
to that because I

1389
00:51:09,930 --> 00:51:11,639
think that that's a moment

1390
00:51:11,639 --> 00:51:13,020
when people are like,

1391
00:51:13,020 --> 00:51:14,669
well, there's,
there's also sing is

1392
00:51:14,669 --> 00:51:16,079
institutional
racism or what?

1393
00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:17,489
Structural racism, right?

1394
00:51:17,489 --> 00:51:19,230
When you, when you sort

1395
00:51:19,230 --> 00:51:21,915
of perform that
kind of a ratio,

1396
00:51:21,915 --> 00:51:24,030
when you take all of
these distinct and

1397
00:51:24,030 --> 00:51:26,130
vibrant and disparate
cultures and you say,

1398
00:51:26,130 --> 00:51:27,450
well, that's ethnic study.

1399
00:51:27,450 --> 00:51:31,230
That means, that means
all non-white cultures

1400
00:51:31,230 --> 00:51:34,019
and concerns or just
an ethnic study.

1401
00:51:34,019 --> 00:51:36,600
You're not doing
the same thing

1402
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,624
on the other side
of the coin, right?

1403
00:51:38,624 --> 00:51:40,199
We don't have people who

1404
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:42,014
just major in science.

1405
00:51:42,014 --> 00:51:43,170
We don't have
the department

1406
00:51:43,170 --> 00:51:44,490
of science that includes

1407
00:51:44,490 --> 00:51:45,690
biology and physics and

1408
00:51:45,690 --> 00:51:47,489
chemistry and all
those that we don't.

1409
00:51:47,489 --> 00:51:48,540
Social science,

1410
00:51:48,540 --> 00:51:50,099
that includes i,
anthropology,

1411
00:51:50,099 --> 00:51:51,750
sociology,
political science,

1412
00:51:51,750 --> 00:51:53,114
and all those
disciplines, right?

1413
00:51:53,114 --> 00:51:54,780
So the eraser that
happens when you

1414
00:51:54,780 --> 00:51:56,715
just do ethnic studies,

1415
00:51:56,715 --> 00:51:58,410
I think is really damaging

1416
00:51:58,410 --> 00:51:59,729
and really diminishing.

1417
00:51:59,729 --> 00:52:01,710
Particularly
because the, the,

1418
00:52:01,710 --> 00:52:04,020
the two things
are happening.

1419
00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:06,179
Ethnic studies is
its own discipline.

1420
00:52:06,179 --> 00:52:07,605
And then underneath that,

1421
00:52:07,605 --> 00:52:09,659
Black Studies is
its own discipline.

1422
00:52:09,659 --> 00:52:12,389
Native Studies is singular
focus discipline.

1423
00:52:12,389 --> 00:52:13,829
So that's sort of a ratio

1424
00:52:13,829 --> 00:52:15,150
that happens, that can,

1425
00:52:15,150 --> 00:52:17,069
that's that to me is
a good example of

1426
00:52:17,069 --> 00:52:18,330
how institutional or

1427
00:52:18,330 --> 00:52:20,174
casual even racism works.

1428
00:52:20,174 --> 00:52:21,689
It just eliminates and

1429
00:52:21,689 --> 00:52:24,179
erases all of these
other folks and

1430
00:52:24,179 --> 00:52:25,709
all of their
concerns and all of

1431
00:52:25,709 --> 00:52:26,909
these disciplines by just

1432
00:52:26,909 --> 00:52:28,500
lumping things together.

1433
00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:31,395
So I wanted to add to that.

1434
00:52:31,395 --> 00:52:34,770
Thank you very much for
that. Next question.

1435
00:52:34,770 --> 00:52:36,900
So this one's
a little long,

1436
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:38,549
but I'm gonna go
ahead and read it.

1437
00:52:38,549 --> 00:52:41,700
So PSU consistently
states that has

1438
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:43,829
the most diverse
student body population

1439
00:52:43,829 --> 00:52:45,299
in all of Oregon.

1440
00:52:45,299 --> 00:52:47,460
Yet the faculty in
the business MR. ED.

1441
00:52:47,460 --> 00:52:48,659
Program does not reflect

1442
00:52:48,659 --> 00:52:50,099
diversity in
color, culture,

1443
00:52:50,099 --> 00:52:52,230
or thought, nor
other mentors,

1444
00:52:52,230 --> 00:52:54,044
academic support or GPA's.

1445
00:52:54,044 --> 00:52:56,760
So how does PSU
addressed this void of

1446
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,214
representation of students

1447
00:52:58,214 --> 00:52:59,700
of color experience?

1448
00:52:59,700 --> 00:53:01,320
There seems to
be a disconnect

1449
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:02,475
about the definition of

1450
00:53:02,475 --> 00:53:04,470
equity lens applied to

1451
00:53:04,470 --> 00:53:06,284
the pedagogy
course curriculum.

1452
00:53:06,284 --> 00:53:08,774
In other words, black
Backpack students

1453
00:53:08,774 --> 00:53:10,259
seem to be an afterthought,

1454
00:53:10,259 --> 00:53:13,260
not integrated into
curriculum GPAs

1455
00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:14,159
and welcomed as

1456
00:53:14,159 --> 00:53:15,750
a pluralist
student community.

1457
00:53:15,750 --> 00:53:18,074
Have students of
color been misled?

1458
00:53:18,074 --> 00:53:21,390
Whereas the PSU
veritas truth.

1459
00:53:21,390 --> 00:53:22,769
How does PSU defined

1460
00:53:22,769 --> 00:53:25,899
equity and veritas truth?

1461
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,815
It's a big question.

1462
00:53:28,815 --> 00:53:30,490
But

1463
00:53:40,310 --> 00:53:42,974
move in.

1464
00:53:42,974 --> 00:53:46,064
Egg like that.

1465
00:53:46,064 --> 00:53:47,940
I will be I don't I
don't know what BAM,

1466
00:53:47,940 --> 00:53:51,460
RED birthday that
what is that?

1467
00:53:52,460 --> 00:53:55,289
But I'm here so I
will talk. I don't

1468
00:53:55,289 --> 00:53:57,389
actually know either, sir.

1469
00:53:57,389 --> 00:53:59,895
Alright. Okay.
So I guess we'll

1470
00:53:59,895 --> 00:54:02,459
let me just talk about
business in general.

1471
00:54:02,459 --> 00:54:09,525
I think that is one of
my favorite business.

1472
00:54:09,525 --> 00:54:11,339
Kind of save if culture

1473
00:54:11,339 --> 00:54:13,365
eats strategy
for breakfast.

1474
00:54:13,365 --> 00:54:15,435
And so at the very minimum,

1475
00:54:15,435 --> 00:54:17,640
I think for every
discipline,

1476
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,060
they then opportunity
to historicize, right?

1477
00:54:21,060 --> 00:54:22,950
Like what is the context

1478
00:54:22,950 --> 00:54:25,755
that informs current
reality, right?

1479
00:54:25,755 --> 00:54:27,899
Business schools are

1480
00:54:27,899 --> 00:54:31,000
notoriously white and male,

1481
00:54:32,300 --> 00:54:33,899
which is true for

1482
00:54:33,899 --> 00:54:35,159
every discipline,
but really, really,

1483
00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:36,480
but this particular
professions,

1484
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:37,874
engineering,
business, right?

1485
00:54:37,874 --> 00:54:41,790
And so what would it
look like to interrogate

1486
00:54:41,790 --> 00:54:44,084
that speaking
specifically about

1487
00:54:44,084 --> 00:54:45,209
business and not least

1488
00:54:45,209 --> 00:54:46,259
in the month
I've been here,

1489
00:54:46,259 --> 00:54:47,429
I know that the work

1490
00:54:47,429 --> 00:54:49,304
that cliff Allen
has been doing

1491
00:54:49,304 --> 00:54:50,969
and I've had the
opportunity to

1492
00:54:50,969 --> 00:54:52,875
talk about some of their
future initiatives.

1493
00:54:52,875 --> 00:54:54,449
I think I think they

1494
00:54:54,449 --> 00:54:56,730
are leaning

1495
00:54:56,730 --> 00:54:58,440
into putting their money
where their mouth,

1496
00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,520
or they think
they have done

1497
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,229
some really
interesting things.

1498
00:55:01,229 --> 00:55:03,194
But I have never shopped

1499
00:55:03,194 --> 00:55:05,160
by disciplines when
I put it in a,

1500
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,720
in a larger context.

1501
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:08,279
But Ted was saying
that this is

1502
00:55:08,279 --> 00:55:10,019
the momentum being in
this moment folks,

1503
00:55:10,019 --> 00:55:11,099
I mean in and
I'm seeing that

1504
00:55:11,099 --> 00:55:12,630
happening across campus.

1505
00:55:12,630 --> 00:55:15,450
And that will be the
challenge though.

1506
00:55:15,450 --> 00:55:16,919
Put all kinda divisions and

1507
00:55:16,919 --> 00:55:19,454
departments is how are
we in this moment?

1508
00:55:19,454 --> 00:55:21,479
Make sure our future
is different from

1509
00:55:21,479 --> 00:55:22,770
our president and certainly

1510
00:55:22,770 --> 00:55:24,879
different from our past.

1511
00:55:29,450 --> 00:55:30,959
Thank you for that.

1512
00:55:30,959 --> 00:55:32,114
I mean, anybody
else want to

1513
00:55:32,114 --> 00:55:35,229
chime in where we can go?

1514
00:55:36,140 --> 00:55:38,369
I would just add that I

1515
00:55:38,369 --> 00:55:40,169
think that it really
helps to keep

1516
00:55:40,169 --> 00:55:41,910
an eye on the systemic and

1517
00:55:41,910 --> 00:55:44,100
to think about how it

1518
00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:47,010
is that representation is

1519
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:48,464
sort of stays at the,

1520
00:55:48,464 --> 00:55:49,529
at the levels that it does

1521
00:55:49,529 --> 00:55:51,225
relative to BIPAP faculty.

1522
00:55:51,225 --> 00:55:52,979
If you know, it's

1523
00:55:52,979 --> 00:55:54,930
one thing to sort
of get BIPAP,

1524
00:55:54,930 --> 00:55:57,840
top faculty or students
to come to PSU,

1525
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,630
but then not be willing
to look at the way

1526
00:56:00,630 --> 00:56:01,859
the system does or doesn't

1527
00:56:01,859 --> 00:56:03,690
provide a place
for those persons.

1528
00:56:03,690 --> 00:56:06,000
Or has, for example,

1529
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,409
promotion and
tenure policies for

1530
00:56:07,409 --> 00:56:09,120
faculty that don't allow

1531
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,400
for faculty involvement

1532
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,110
in community engagement.

1533
00:56:13,110 --> 00:56:14,400
And potentate has made

1534
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:15,705
some strides in this way.

1535
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:17,310
But what I would
like to say as

1536
00:56:17,310 --> 00:56:18,960
a faculty senator and

1537
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,999
the presiding officer
elect is coming before

1538
00:56:20,999 --> 00:56:22,620
Faculty Senate this year is

1539
00:56:22,620 --> 00:56:24,270
some work we're going
to be doing to look at,

1540
00:56:24,270 --> 00:56:26,129
at this and to continue to

1541
00:56:26,129 --> 00:56:29,249
strive to initiate
processes

1542
00:56:29,249 --> 00:56:31,289
whereby different
procedures on

1543
00:56:31,289 --> 00:56:33,390
the structural
level actually

1544
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,100
help us to build towards

1545
00:56:35,100 --> 00:56:36,809
better representation so

1546
00:56:36,809 --> 00:56:38,835
that our students also

1547
00:56:38,835 --> 00:56:41,009
see themselves
in the faculty

1548
00:56:41,009 --> 00:56:43,839
and the staff who are
engaging with them.

1549
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:49,560
Bravo. Excellent
point, Vicki.

1550
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,020
So questions keep
coming in and I want

1551
00:56:52,020 --> 00:56:52,590
to be mindful of

1552
00:56:52,590 --> 00:56:53,849
time so we don't
have much left.

1553
00:56:53,849 --> 00:56:55,515
Time goes very fast

1554
00:56:55,515 --> 00:56:57,465
at this moment, we're
almost out of time.

1555
00:56:57,465 --> 00:56:58,290
But I'm going to ask

1556
00:56:58,290 --> 00:56:59,700
one final question
because this is

1557
00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:00,900
a question that AMI hinted

1558
00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:02,174
at today and it's come up,

1559
00:57:02,174 --> 00:57:04,604
I think in almost every
single conversation

1560
00:57:04,604 --> 00:57:06,809
we've had on this
topic at PSU,

1561
00:57:06,809 --> 00:57:08,955
at least in the last
couple of weeks.

1562
00:57:08,955 --> 00:57:12,569
Which is and maybe
it's it's both them.

1563
00:57:12,569 --> 00:57:14,849
Well, answer it as

1564
00:57:14,849 --> 00:57:16,170
you wish, but
the question is,

1565
00:57:16,170 --> 00:57:17,610
how do you personally

1566
00:57:17,610 --> 00:57:20,309
stay energized
for this work?

1567
00:57:20,309 --> 00:57:22,799
How do you build the
collective momentum

1568
00:57:22,799 --> 00:57:24,165
for this work on campus?

1569
00:57:24,165 --> 00:57:25,635
Knowing that in fact,

1570
00:57:25,635 --> 00:57:27,269
particularly are you as

1571
00:57:27,269 --> 00:57:29,279
faculty as well as
our BIPAP locally,

1572
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:31,380
where the bear the burden

1573
00:57:31,380 --> 00:57:33,419
of the labor to do
this work on campus.

1574
00:57:33,419 --> 00:57:34,380
So it's a question of how

1575
00:57:34,380 --> 00:57:35,355
are you seeing energized?

1576
00:57:35,355 --> 00:57:36,870
Because this is a theme.

1577
00:57:36,870 --> 00:57:38,760
Again, I was in a call
earlier today with

1578
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,589
Ahmet with this
exact thing came up.

1579
00:57:40,589 --> 00:57:42,870
So yeah, perhaps you can

1580
00:57:42,870 --> 00:57:44,139
share

1581
00:57:51,890 --> 00:57:54,329
vision pieces critical.

1582
00:57:54,329 --> 00:57:56,594
I have something
pulling me.

1583
00:57:56,594 --> 00:58:00,060
I have to have something
i'm working towards.

1584
00:58:00,060 --> 00:58:03,165
Before had a kitchen
with my students.

1585
00:58:03,165 --> 00:58:09,480
And there are few
things that they,

1586
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,070
if you think the enrage

1587
00:58:11,070 --> 00:58:12,899
me more than barriers to

1588
00:58:12,899 --> 00:58:15,480
potential becoming
reality and

1589
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,490
not in a Savior
kind of way.

1590
00:58:17,490 --> 00:58:19,050
My students,

1591
00:58:19,050 --> 00:58:20,490
I superhero though
by themselves,

1592
00:58:20,490 --> 00:58:22,994
they don't need any help,

1593
00:58:22,994 --> 00:58:25,829
I would say for the
future folks, right.

1594
00:58:25,829 --> 00:58:30,075
So snaps four. And
now with a kid,

1595
00:58:30,075 --> 00:58:34,929
when I get tired,
that's why go on.

1596
00:58:40,510 --> 00:58:46,129
Others. How do you
standardize Algol?

1597
00:58:46,129 --> 00:58:47,599
I think back to the,

1598
00:58:47,599 --> 00:58:49,970
to the last course
I taught in

1599
00:58:49,970 --> 00:58:52,579
a spring term was a
spirituality course.

1600
00:58:52,579 --> 00:58:54,874
And, and, you know,

1601
00:58:54,874 --> 00:58:58,549
I thought about the
sorted demands and what

1602
00:58:58,549 --> 00:58:59,989
students were going through

1603
00:58:59,989 --> 00:59:02,314
and I went to school late.

1604
00:59:02,314 --> 00:59:04,280
I was an adult attendee of

1605
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,169
undergrad and grad school

1606
00:59:06,169 --> 00:59:07,489
and there's a lot
happening there.

1607
00:59:07,489 --> 00:59:08,629
So thinking about that

1608
00:59:08,629 --> 00:59:10,324
compounding with
all of this and,

1609
00:59:10,324 --> 00:59:12,289
and what that,
what that's like.

1610
00:59:12,289 --> 00:59:15,919
And I know that

1611
00:59:15,919 --> 00:59:17,810
in a new then that it
could be demanding.

1612
00:59:17,810 --> 00:59:18,919
But I made as

1613
00:59:18,919 --> 00:59:21,645
sort synchronous
asynchronous class.

1614
00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:22,619
In other words,
you could get

1615
00:59:22,619 --> 00:59:23,895
a hold of me
whenever you wanted,

1616
00:59:23,895 --> 00:59:25,169
but we're going to
meet every other

1617
00:59:25,169 --> 00:59:27,029
week at a designated time.

1618
00:59:27,029 --> 00:59:29,009
And the students said that

1619
00:59:29,009 --> 00:59:30,539
that really meant a
lot that they had,

1620
00:59:30,539 --> 00:59:32,849
that they knew that
they had that moment,

1621
00:59:32,849 --> 00:59:34,139
that they they could they

1622
00:59:34,139 --> 00:59:35,669
could clear their schedule,

1623
00:59:35,669 --> 00:59:37,409
they could dedicate
their time to that.

1624
00:59:37,409 --> 00:59:38,940
But then that that became

1625
00:59:38,940 --> 00:59:40,905
the moment they looked
forward to, right.

1626
00:59:40,905 --> 00:59:43,469
That this was something
that helped them get

1627
00:59:43,469 --> 00:59:45,300
through this initial sort

1628
00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:47,190
of part of the
pandemic that we had,

1629
00:59:47,190 --> 00:59:49,140
the space that we had
these conversations,

1630
00:59:49,140 --> 00:59:51,359
that, that they were
learning and growing,

1631
00:59:51,359 --> 00:59:53,009
but they were also

1632
00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:56,010
having a space for
community, right?

1633
00:59:56,010 --> 00:59:57,719
In all of the things

1634
00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:59,264
that were happening
around us.

1635
00:59:59,264 --> 01:00:01,590
And so when I
think about them,

1636
01:00:01,590 --> 01:00:03,285
think about all the folks

1637
01:00:03,285 --> 01:00:08,609
who made space for me
in my education and

1638
01:00:08,609 --> 01:00:11,999
how important it was
for me to be where I'm

1639
01:00:11,999 --> 01:00:13,589
at right now
because of where

1640
01:00:13,589 --> 01:00:15,959
they helped me to get to.

1641
01:00:15,959 --> 01:00:19,814
I owe them and I just
that's just what we do.

1642
01:00:19,814 --> 01:00:21,750
Right. I mean, if
I wanted to go to

1643
01:00:21,750 --> 01:00:22,859
school for a really long

1644
01:00:22,859 --> 01:00:24,225
time and make a
bunch of money.

1645
01:00:24,225 --> 01:00:26,020
I'd be a lawyer or
whatever I would,

1646
01:00:26,020 --> 01:00:26,939
this is now what I would

1647
01:00:26,939 --> 01:00:28,439
do with my life, right?

1648
01:00:28,439 --> 01:00:30,585
So this is really
important moment

1649
01:00:30,585 --> 01:00:32,519
for us in the world.

1650
01:00:32,519 --> 01:00:35,504
And again, I think
if we are helping,

1651
01:00:35,504 --> 01:00:37,049
if we learn from
our students

1652
01:00:37,049 --> 01:00:38,339
and then help to model what

1653
01:00:38,339 --> 01:00:39,839
this next world can

1654
01:00:39,839 --> 01:00:41,354
look like on the
other side of this,

1655
01:00:41,354 --> 01:00:42,630
and we do it together.

1656
01:00:42,630 --> 01:00:44,384
That's a huge
win. That's just,

1657
01:00:44,384 --> 01:00:45,690
that's the that's
the biggest

1658
01:00:45,690 --> 01:00:46,769
wind that I could think of.

1659
01:00:46,769 --> 01:00:50,080
So that case we go,
that's really important.

1660
01:00:51,740 --> 01:00:54,584
Here. Here I think.

1661
01:00:54,584 --> 01:00:57,480
Students for me
and the, the,

1662
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:58,889
the possibility of being

1663
01:00:58,889 --> 01:01:01,485
in relationship where
we share power,

1664
01:01:01,485 --> 01:01:03,810
where we work on building
something together,

1665
01:01:03,810 --> 01:01:05,459
where we understand that

1666
01:01:05,459 --> 01:01:07,379
it's not enough
simply to critique,

1667
01:01:07,379 --> 01:01:10,109
we must engage in
the process of

1668
01:01:10,109 --> 01:01:11,790
co-creating a vision and

1669
01:01:11,790 --> 01:01:12,930
figuring out how we work

1670
01:01:12,930 --> 01:01:14,309
collectively towards it.

1671
01:01:14,309 --> 01:01:17,174
And when, when I can
stay in that place,

1672
01:01:17,174 --> 01:01:20,939
I keep my energy for
the work to go on.

1673
01:01:20,939 --> 01:01:23,310
So thank you
students. Thank you.

1674
01:01:23,310 --> 01:01:29,310
Eternally. When
I was a student,

1675
01:01:29,310 --> 01:01:30,690
I just had my mentors

1676
01:01:30,690 --> 01:01:32,009
tell me if I
wanted something,

1677
01:01:32,009 --> 01:01:33,360
I wanted to see
something to

1678
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:34,740
keep fighting and to

1679
01:01:34,740 --> 01:01:35,879
make people hold people

1680
01:01:35,879 --> 01:01:37,649
accountable for
what they say.

1681
01:01:37,649 --> 01:01:39,990
So Todd's probably heard

1682
01:01:39,990 --> 01:01:41,070
me say this and Ted's

1683
01:01:41,070 --> 01:01:42,089
probably heard me say this.

1684
01:01:42,089 --> 01:01:44,069
But if you're going
to talk the talk,

1685
01:01:44,069 --> 01:01:45,119
you need to walk the walk

1686
01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:48,430
to don't talk about
it. Be about it.

1687
01:01:50,390 --> 01:01:52,409
Well, thank you all. And I

1688
01:01:52,409 --> 01:01:53,759
can't think of
a better way to

1689
01:01:53,759 --> 01:01:56,790
end the first at this
moment sort of seminar.

1690
01:01:56,790 --> 01:01:58,199
So with that again,

1691
01:01:58,199 --> 01:01:59,339
thank you to AMI and to

1692
01:01:59,339 --> 01:02:01,230
Vicky and to TEDx
and to Angela.

1693
01:02:01,230 --> 01:02:02,699
And for all the amazing
work you're doing and

1694
01:02:02,699 --> 01:02:04,380
the work we're doing
pretty good at PSU,

1695
01:02:04,380 --> 01:02:05,564
our community
in the future.

1696
01:02:05,564 --> 01:02:07,515
So that's sort of our
city and our region.

1697
01:02:07,515 --> 01:02:09,300
So with that
said, the next at

1698
01:02:09,300 --> 01:02:10,755
this moment will be
on November 12th.

1699
01:02:10,755 --> 01:02:11,955
We hope you'll all join.

1700
01:02:11,955 --> 01:02:13,500
Really, the entire fall

1701
01:02:13,500 --> 01:02:14,549
is focused on issues of

1702
01:02:14,549 --> 01:02:15,674
equity and diversity
inclusion.

1703
01:02:15,674 --> 01:02:15,960
Then we have

1704
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:17,309
a great lineup of
faculty talking

1705
01:02:17,309 --> 01:02:17,669
about some of

1706
01:02:17,669 --> 01:02:18,989
their scholarship
and engagement work.

1707
01:02:18,989 --> 01:02:20,879
And I hope you'll
participate also just

1708
01:02:20,879 --> 01:02:21,735
as a shout-out and I

1709
01:02:21,735 --> 01:02:22,889
just put it in
the chat box.

1710
01:02:22,889 --> 01:02:24,120
I think just now,

1711
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:27,180
next week is our very
first Taggard series.

1712
01:02:27,180 --> 01:02:28,994
So classed as two
different events

1713
01:02:28,994 --> 01:02:31,004
are Tang RED series
is much more of a,

1714
01:02:31,004 --> 01:02:34,515
a TED talk ask style
sort of presentation.

1715
01:02:34,515 --> 01:02:35,999
And next week
is really about

1716
01:02:35,999 --> 01:02:37,860
voices on gender
and social change.

1717
01:02:37,860 --> 01:02:39,000
And we really highlighted

1718
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,109
some amazing faculty across

1719
01:02:40,109 --> 01:02:41,535
the college of
Arts and Sciences.

1720
01:02:41,535 --> 01:02:42,780
And I hope you
can participate.

1721
01:02:42,780 --> 01:02:44,220
Alright, with that, I want

1722
01:02:44,220 --> 01:02:45,840
to thank you again
for showing up.

1723
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:46,739
I can't wait to see you

1724
01:02:46,739 --> 01:02:48,135
again on November 12th.

1725
01:02:48,135 --> 01:02:52,034
Stay safe. Well, and
yeah, we'll Susan.

1726
01:02:52,034 --> 01:02:55,210
Thank you. Thanks,
everyone. Take care.