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HFA Opportunities 

Undergraduate Students Can Apply to the Christie and Chinua Achebe Scholarship Fund 

The Christie and Chinua Achebe Scholarship Fund is aimed at promoting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive scholarly environment in which outstanding undergraduate students support the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the university. Recipients should have a minimum GPA of 2.5. Preference will be given to undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Afro-American Studies or students with demonstrated interest in Native American and indigenous heritage. Learn more or apply now via AcademicWorks. 

Call for Proposals for 2024 Graduate Student Symposium on (Re)imagining Black Futures 

The graduate students of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies invite undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members, and independent scholars to submit proposals for its Spring 2024 Graduate Student Symposium on "(Re)imagining Black Futures: Intersectionality and Coalition-Building for Reshaping Black Realities," to be held Saturday, April 27, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

 

Campus Opportunities

URep UMass Overnight - Undergraduate Student Hosts Needed

April 6-7, 2024
Needed: Current students who are willing to host and share their room in a residence hall with admitted student for the annual URep UMass Overnight.  Questions? Interested? Contact urep [at] umass [dot] edu (urep[at]umass[dot]edu).

HFA Faculty Invited to Cross-Cultural Communication & Conflict Cohort: Three-Part of Workshop 

The Office of Faculty Development invites interested faculty members and librarians to register for the Cross-Cultural Communication & Conflict Cohort, a three-part workshop this semester. This group will meet on Zoom from 2-4 p.m. on Feb. 13, Feb. 27, and March 12. In order to fully engage in the work, participants are asked to commit to attend all three sessions. The deadline to register is Tuesday, Feb. 6. 

 

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Cara Takakjian

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professional Development
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
Email: ctakakjian [at] umass [dot] edu
Phone: (413) 545-6707

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