Stories

Our Black community is in danger. This isn’t breaking news, but it should be breaking hearts.

These courses provide a much needed opportunity to engage in dialogue, self-reflection and community building. Doing so replaces misinformation with empathy, compassion and belonging.

It feels amazing to see more and more students at Fitchburg State who want to get engaged. It’s so close and dear to me to see young Latinos and people of color, because I totally know what they’re going through.

What I’ve tried to do in the program is to help students self-advocate and to help them understand how academic settings work.

One of our first objectives is to have a better understanding of our own identities and our own biases.

People who aren’t like you can’t always relate to you, but they can understand you.

We want to empower students to be the authors of their own stories. It’s really about rethinking what this center can do to amplify voices that are most silenced in this society.

Addressing the systemic barriers to student success will take a campus-wide commitment.

Fighting for equality is always at my core, along with human rights. We should all be able to start with a clean slate.

While we practice using contingency tables and finding probabilities, we are looking at the issue of constitutionality and racial profiling in the practice.