Simple Steps to Creating an Inclusive Campus Environment

The Office of Equity and Diversity invites ALL University employees to a Diversity + Inclusion = A Better U! lunch and learn professional development program featuring Melissa Anyiwo, Ph. D.. associate professor in Black Studies and History.

Join us Nov. 15 at 12 p.m., in The Kane Forum, Leahy Hall 235 for

"Simple Steps to Creating An Inclusive Campus Environment".

In this interactive workshop you will learn:

• the principals of universal design

• why creating an inclusive experience for all students enhances their chances of success

• the ability to transform the campus/class/office space, an assignment/activity, course outcome, or a lecture, as a step to creating an inclusive learning experience

D+I= A Better U! programs are professional development opportunities sponsored by the Office of Equity and Diversity. Registration is required.

Register for the Nov. 15 Lunch and Learn with Melissa Anyiwo. 

Questions or call in reservations: 570-941-6645 or diversity@scranton.edu.

Uzoamaka Melissa Anyiwo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History. She received a B.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies and Politics from University of Wales Swansea in the United Kingdom before coming to the United States. Her dissertation provided an analysis of the lifecycles of the dominant stereotypes of African American women—the Jezebel and the Mammy.  She has served as an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she also held the HH Battle Professorship in African American Studies and served as coordinator of Black studies minor. In 2007, she took a position at Curry College where she was promoted to full professor and served as coordinator of the Black studies minor. In 2020 she received an NEH: Humanities Initiatives Grant to fund an Immersive Black History Project.