Just wanted to say hi guys! I miss you guys. Some of you guys still haven’t started blogging.. tsk tsk. NO worries. My goal by the end of the semester is not to have you guys blog because you feel “forced” to.. but have you guys blog because you want to blog. 🙂
Here are the enrichment workshops for the upcoming week. I would highly recommend you guys attend the Challenge your values-Let’s Talk Ethics workshop. Actually all of these workshops are pretty rich and informative. Don’t forget to grab a signature from the person directing the workshop and then blog about your experience at the workshop.
JUST A REMINDER that some things you should be including in your blog are the date and name of the enrichment workshop, what was done/said in the workshop and your reactions. Feel free to freewrite. Refer to the blogging guidelines for details!
ENRICHMENT WORKSHOPS FOR SEPT 20-26
Undoing Racial Disproportionality in Foster Care
When: Mon, September 21, 9am – 5pm
Where: Mason Hall, 23rd St Buildin
Description (Global / Community Awareness) National leaders will present positive results in statewide efforts to reduce racial disproportionality in foster care. Highlighted will be the importance of training staff in “undoing racism” to create a workforce committed to antiracist approaches to child protective services.
Challenge your Values-Lets talk Ethics
When: Tue, September 22, 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Where: VC 3-210
Description: Community/ Global Awareness. Learn how ethics play a role in your everyday life.
Changing America: Judge Sonia Sotomayor
When: Tue, September 22, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Where: VC 7-150
Description: Global / Community Awareness. Learn about the First Latina Supreme Court Justice and how America has taken a radical shift.
Gallery Tour: The Nature of Landscape / The Nature of Photo
When: Tue, September 22, 1pm – 2pm
Where: Sidney Mishkin, 135 East 22nd Stree
Description: Arts at Baruch. A “teaching gallery” that is regularly the site of special class sessions, the Mishkin is a linchpin in the College’s drive to encourage interdisciplinary education. Gallery talks and symposia are commonly offered to the College community as well as the public as part of exhibition schedules.
Challenge your Values-Lets talk Ethics
When: Wed, September 23, 1pm – 2pm
Where: VC 3-210
Description: Community/ Global Awareness. Leanr about how ethics plays out in everyday life.
Annual Club Fair – 170 clubs and counting
When: Thu, September 24, 12:00pm – 2:30pm
Where: ARC Main Gym
Description: (Student Life) Student Clubs and Organizations provide information for students about their organizations.
Global Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
When: Thu, September 24, 4pm – 5pm
Where: Library Building 7th Floor
Description: (Global-Community Awareness) Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, will deliver a lecture on “Global Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century,” as part of the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice in America. Foxman is internationally recognized for his expertise on issues of civil rights and anti-Semitism. The Ackerman Lecture series invites leading intellectuals and public figures to address major questions of equality and social justice in order to provoke debate and new thinking about how we might extend the promise of democracy and opportunity to all of our people. RSVP here or call 646-660-6851.
American Justice For Sale?
When: Thu, September 24, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Where: VC 14-220
Description: (Global-Community Awareness) While the electoral process allows citizens to select judges directly in 39 states, it also poses a challenge to the foundation of the American legal system: the right to equal treatment under law. “American Justice for Sale?” will focus on the threat that unlimited spending in judicial elections poses and will examine the ethical challenges American corporations face when they participate in the judicial electoral process. RSVP here.
The Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series, ft. Abraham Foxman
When: Thu, September 24, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Where: VC 14-220
Description: (Community / Global Awarenss) The Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice in America at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs is supported by a generous gift from Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman in honor of Mrs. Engelman’s parents, whose deep commitment to equal opportunity and social justice inspired this tribute. The Ackerman Lecture series invites leading intellectuals and public figures to address major questions of equality and social justice in order to provoke debate and new thinking about how we might extend the promise of democracy and opportunity to all of our people. RSVP here.
Professional Networking Workshop
When: Thu, September 24, 6pm – 8pm
Where: TBA (check Student Life’s Enrichment Workshops schedule for details)
Description: (Personal Enrichment) The object of this seminar is to increase self-esteem at social and business functions, improve networking skills, and learn how to initiate friendly and business relationships. Through coaching and interactive exercises, the workshop will offer insightful and useful tips to feel more confident, ask the right questions to promote conversation, to actively listen, and to make others feel more comfortable. Learn tricks to jumpstart a conversation that could lead to a job interview or a business relationship. This course is free for students enrolled in paid courses in the current term. Those interested may enroll online to pay or call 646-312-5000 to register for free. Free – registered CAPS students/$25 non-students
Film Series: Farenheit 451 (1966)
When: Fri, September 25, 10:00am – 11:30am
Where: VC 5-160
Description: (Arts at Brauch) Reviews for the movie can be found on IMDb.
Film Series: Intimate Stranger (1991)
When: Fri, September 25, 3:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: VC 5-150
Description: [GLOBAL-COMMUNITY AWARENESS requirement] You’ve probably never heard of Joseph Cassuto, but by the end of this film you may think that he was the most elusive, fascinating and baffling man to have ever lived. Cassuto is filmmaker Alan Berliner’s maternal grandfather, a Palestinian Jew who was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. With Hitler’s armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto’s family is split in half. They reunite in New York after the war, but Cassuto is restless there. He moves to Japan to spend eleven months of the year, virtually abandoning his wife and children in the U.S. while he pursues his business interests and a life-long love affair with Japanese culture. Seventeen years after his death, his grandson has constructed a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather’s life story. What emerges is a curious legacy — admiration and love from Cassuto’s Japanese business associates; resentment from his family. Depending on who you ask, Cassuto was either a romantic adventurer or a shirker of family responsibility; a man at the center of historic events or a nobody.