Ithaca College

The educational workshops that will be a highlight of the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr Week are now available on the MLK Celebration website.

Workshops are available to all members of the campus community.  No reservations are necessary, but please plan to arrive early as space is limited.

Highlights include:

Tuesday, January 26 from 12:15 to 1:00 pm

Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, Associate Professor and Chair of Physics, presenting on The Ithaca College Climate Action Plan in Clark Lounge.  This brief presentation of the IC Climate Action Plan will be followed by a workshop that will identify at least 3 near-term actions that participants can take to help implement the plan or to get more involved in implementation.

Laura Murphy, Assistant Professor of English, on Modern Day Abolitionism in Klingenstein Lounge.  This session will introduce participants to the issue of modern day slavery and the work we can do to eradicate it.

Thursday, January 28 from 12:15 to 1:00 pm

Thomas Rochon, Ithaca College President, leading a discussion on Comfort and Challenge in 2010 in Clark Lounge.  This workshop will ask participants to identify issues of challenge in 2010 and discuss who has been taking a stand on those issues and the ways in which they have done so.  The goal is to understand that social change/struggle for social justice is a constant process.

Carla Stetson, Assistant Professor of Art, presenting Difficult to Speak and Impossible to Remain Silent in Klingenstein Lounge. This session gives the history, political and creative process of making a community memorial 83 years later as a remembrance of the victims of a lynching in Duluth, Minnesota in 1920.  Professor Stetson is the designer of this memorial.

Please visit the MLK website for more complete workshop descriptions.