Institute on Race and Ethnicity

Last year we cobbled together a summer reading list complete with professor recommendations.

For the 15th consecutive year, the city of Little Rock will gather for the annual Cinco de Mayo festival. The League of United Latin American Citizens Council will host the event from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Clinton Presidential Center Park.

The UALR Diversity Council will release the results of the campus diversity climate survey at the fourth and final brown bag Lunch and Learn event of the spring semester from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in room C of the Donaghey Student Center.

Ten years ago, UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson issued a challenge at the inaugural Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County conference: “You have to face it to fix it.”

The 10th annual Racial Attitudes Conference will be held March 28 where the findings of the crime and punishment survey will be discussed.

The UALR Diversity Council will hold the first in a series of luncheon forums aimed at engaging the campus community in discussions about diversity from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Donaghey Student Center Room G.  

Dr. John Kirk, Donaghey Professor and chair of the History Department, spoke to a group of students from Indiana University Bloomington Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Arkansas Studies Institute about the Civil Rights movement in Arkansas.

Arkansas ranked fourth in the nation in immigrant population growth from 2000 to 2010, according to a three-volume report released Tuesday, Jan. 8, by the  Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

Priscilla McChristian, chief of staff in the Chancellor’s Office, will serve as interim director of the UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity, Chancellor Joel E. Anderson announced Thursday.

Grassroots activist Gertrude Jackson, who for 60 years worked for civil rights, social change, and racial justice in the Arkansas Delta, will receive an honorary degree at UALR’s fall commencement ceremonies Thursday, Dec. 20, in the Jack Stephens Center.