Posted on 03/12/2019 2:00:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels
San Diego State University is set to host a “Racial Healing Workshop” for minority students and faculty later this month that aims to help students and professors of color get through college and career life.
“This intimate one and a half hour Racial Healing Workshop catered to students and faculty of color will be led by well-known professional Dr. Cheryl E. Matias,” state the student organizers of the event, the Marriage and Family Therapy Association, a recognized student organization under the College of Education.
“She will provide a safe space for students and faculty of color to discuss issues that impact persons of color in higher academia,” the event’s online description states. “Dr. Matias will facilitate group healing and she will provide tools to help POC [people of color] navigate racialized spaces such as higher education and professional fields.”
Called “Taking Back Our Truths: Healing Circle,” it is scheduled for March 22 at the public university’s student union building.
The healing circle takes place after another, similar event on campus called “Taking Back our Truths: Deconstructing Whiteness in Academia and Embracing Racial Justice and Healing workshop.” This too will be hosted at San Diego State through the student therapy association.
According to the deconstructing whiteness workshop’s online description, Matias will give a one hour research-driven lecture on whiteness in higher academia and the negative impacts it has on people of color.
“This workshop will raise awareness about the challenges that universities face in attracting, supporting and retaining students and faculty of color. In addition, the research-driven lecture will also provide tools for white identified faculty who work with students of color to help raise consciousness about allyship in academia and professional fields,” the event’s website states.
Reached for comment by The College Fix, Monica Everett-Haynes, a university spokesperson for SDSU’s Office of the President, stated that the deconstructing whiteness workshop may help reduce discrimination and racism at the school.
“The event is designed to connect students and faculty of diverse backgrounds to understand the experiences of people from minoritized backgrounds. Those who attend will discuss issues of race and identify tools necessary to help students and faculty to work collaboratively and to support one another in ways that may help reduce instances of discrimination and racism,” Everett-Haynes wrote.
“[SDSU’s student] groups regularly host programs and events collectively to explore and dialogue about discipline-specific topics related to careers, community engagement and service, philanthropy, spirituality and religion, race, class, cultural traditions and numerous other topics and interests. Participation in such programs and events is optional, not mandatory,” Everett-Haynes said. “This type of interaction helps to honor SDSU’s vision and mission to support a diverse and inclusive campus climate, which benefits us all, not merely specific groups.”
Cheryl Matias and the Marriage and Family Therapy Association did not respond to an inquiry from The College Fix for comment.
Healing circles are not new to San Diego State. In 2016, it hosted a “Healing Circle” to help students process their confusion, anger and fear over Donald Trump’s election and develop ways to stand against “injustice.”
If you hate white men so much I suggest you stay away from computer science and engineering type majors. My son says his classes are almost all white male...just like they were when I got my CS degree. :)
how about creating a no-minority safe space for white students?
Maybe people of color are part of an inferior race. What a bunch of over-sensitive, weak-minded losers. Good luck in life, losers.
Translation:
We know all you minorities, brown and black people are just too damned stupid, are incapable of controlling your emotions, are lazy and shiftless, and without OUR HELP you will Never make it through your pathetic lives
It is the college administrators of colleges like this one, of every race, that are the over-sensitive, weak-minded losers.
What's worse: The students that attend, or the fact that the adults running the show actually encouraged it, organized it and implemented it?
From the statistics I’ve seem it is the Whites that need a safe place.
people who used to suffer segregation, wanting it back in style.
I don’t self-identify as white
I triple guarantee all of these students that their future employers will NOT have such ‘safe places’ for them.
It appears that competing with whites and asians in any academic endeavor is extremely stressful to blacks. I wonder why?
Anyone heard of any “No Blacks or other minorities” safe spaces?
Job fairs?
That’s funny! Wish I had quipped it....
I visited the Memphis Zoo once many years ago, and was underwhelmed. The gorilla cage was pathetic...bare cage with almost nothing in it, indoors, with one gorilla.
I believe the photo was taken in 1959.
Thanks. That was many years before my visit to the zoo.
“The soft bigotry of low expectations”
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