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114: Conversations on the Book "So You Want to Talk about Race" Pt 6 Oct 01, 2020

Show notes

This episode is part of a series of conversations with colleagues from around the state on the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. We'll be bringing you the conversations mostly in their entirety - editing only for flow.

I want to thank everyone who participated in these conversations. These conversations are hard, but we must have them if we're going to dismantle systemic racism in our country and in our college.

Thanks again to every member of our conversation. It takes a great deal of courage to have these conversations.

As the Call to Action, I remind you that if something made you feel uncomfortable or even angry, please sit with that for a little while. Ask yourself why. Have a conversation with a colleague you trust to talk with you honestly about the issues of race and racism.
If you'd like to listen to the book So You Want to Talk About Race and you are a member of the Ivy Tech community, you can download the book from our Ivy Tech library to listen to. Please talk with your local librarian about how to do so.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

113: Plan Ahead Get Ahead Sep 24, 2020

Show notes

For the Fall 2020 registration period, Ivy Tech is offering continuing students an incentive opportunity to earn one free class or free tuition for a year if they register for spring classes by October 9, 2020.

Thanks again to my guest Cory Clasemann-Ryan.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

112: Meeting of the Minds Sep 17, 2020

Show notes

Kokomo and Indy campus Libraries were awarded an Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grant from the Indiana Humanities Council with funding made possible by the Lilly Endowment.

With this grant, the libraries purchased books and DVDs that promote a greater understanding of social and racial injustices and help promote a greater understanding of cultural diversity and racial equity.

These resources are available to the whole Ivy Tech community through Interlibrary Loan (just check with your local librarian). If you'd like to learn more about the books & resources that libraries could choose from, visit https://indianahumanities.org/racialequity and find the Racial Equity Materials/Book List link on the right-hand side of the screen.

In addition, the Ivy Tech Library Directors, which is a statewide committee of library directors, have met in a "Meeting of the Minds" with campus Diversity Leads to collaborate on ideas of how to team up and support each other with Strategic Goal #8: To establish a sustainable culture of diversity, equity, and belonging.

One specific action that has already grown out of this collaboration is a meeting in July with author Marwin Strong, an Ivy Tech alum, who shared his experiences growing up in Muncie. Marwin's life experiences led to his first book, Back From the Shadow of Death.

Katrina Hudson, ASAP Director and Diversity Lead for Lake County campus, will be hosting a book club using Marwin Strong's book. Katrina was not able to join us today but we recognize and appreciate her work and want you to have that context as we will likely discuss Marwin's book today. If you'd like to know more about Marwin, you can reach him at:

https://www.marwinstrong.com/

His email is: authormarwinstrong@gmail.com

Phone number: (765) 760-8060

You can find the Virtual Bulletin Boards that Liv mentioned at @ivytechindy on Instagram or by following the hashtag #ivytechindy.

Thanks again to all of our guests today:

Darlene Vasquez, Regional Library Director/Testing Services/LRC for Kokomo, Logansport, Peru
Jan Woodall, Library Director, Indianapolis
Liv Graham, Librarian, Indianapolis
Samantha Rappuhn, Grants & Academic Projects Coordinator, Kokomo
Doranna Byrd, Director of Diversity, Equity and Belonging, South Bend-Elkhart
Amber Williams, Diversity Lead/Program Chair Social & Behavioral Sciences, Kokomo

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

111: Conversations on the book "So You Want to Talk about Race" Pt 5 Sep 10, 2020

Show notes

I want to thank everyone who participated in these conversations. These conversations are hard, but we must have them if we're going to dismantle systemic racism in our country and in our college.

Thanks again to every member of our conversation. It takes a great deal of courage to have these conversations.

On this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

The Coddling of the American Mind
Jane Elliott video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPoSMULI5U (Note - this is one of many videos about Jane Elliott. A google search for Jane Elliott video will bring up many more)
The Coffee Break [Language] Podcasts - https://radiolingua.com/category/podcast/
- You can also subscribe to Coffee Break in your favorite podcast player.
As the Call to Action, I remind you that if something made you feel uncomfortable or even angry, please sit with that for a little while. Ask yourself why. Have a conversation with a colleague you trust to talk with you honestly about the issues of race and racism.
If you'd like to listen to the book So You Want to Talk About Race and you are a member of the Ivy Tech community, you can download the book from our Ivy Tech library to listen to. Please talk with your local librarian about how to do so.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

110: Conversations on the book "So You Want to Talk about Race" Pt 4 Sep 03, 2020

Show notes

These episodes are part of a series of conversations with colleagues from around the state on the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. We'll be bringing you the conversations mostly in their entirety - editing only for flow.

I want to thank everyone who participated in these conversations. These conversations are hard, but we must have them if we're going to dismantle systemic racism in our country and in our college.

Thanks again to every member of our conversation. It takes a great deal of courage to have these conversations.

As the Call to Action, I remind you that if something made you feel uncomfortable or even angry, please sit with that for a little while. Ask yourself why. Have a conversation with a colleague you trust to talk with you honestly about the issues of race and racism.

If you'd like to listen to the book So You Want to Talk About Race and you are a member of the Ivy Tech community, you can download the book from our Ivy Tech library to listen to. Please talk with your local librarian about how to do so.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

109: Iterating on 4DX Aug 27, 2020

Show notes

Iterating on 4DX

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

108: Conversations on the Book "So You Want to Talk about Race" Pt 3 Aug 20, 2020

Show notes

This week we have two episodes for you. These episodes are part of a series of conversations with colleagues from around the state on the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. We'll be bringing you the conversations mostly in their entirety - editing only for flow.

I want to thank everyone who participated in these conversations. These conversations are hard, but we must have them if we're going to dismantle systemic racism in our country and in our college.

Thanks again to every member of our conversation. It takes a great deal of courage to have these conversations.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

107: Creativity and Innovation in Action Aug 13, 2020

Show notes

In today's episode, we're going to meet several folks who responded to a request from the Strategy 5.2 team to share innovative and creative ideas they were using to respond to COVID 19.

Thanks to Marta, Amy, Becky, and Leighann for chatting with me today about this exciting initiative and what they learned from it.

Here are the links we discussed in today's show:

Ivy Tech Evansville Wellness and Fitness Center on Instagram: @ivytechwellandfit;
Facebook page: Ivy Tech Wellness and Fitness Center
Evansville Wellness Center YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl4W7ikOCPC9034iAxGJ5HA?view_as=subscriber
Whitepages - whitepages.ivytech.edu

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

106: IvyConnect Release 1 Update Aug 06, 2020

Show notes

On this week's show, we're talking about the release of IvyConnect - the College's new CRM platform.

Our guests for this week's episode are:

Sarah Cleveland
Matt Etchison
Kristen Moreland

Call to Action

Training opportunities and updates about Release 1 of IvyConnect will be coming out in email over the new few weeks. Keep an eye out for these important updates.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.

105: Conversations on the Book "So You Want to Talk about Race" Pt 2 Jul 31, 2020

Show notes

I want to thank everyone who participated in these conversations. These conversations are hard, but we must have them if we're going to dismantle systemic racism in our country and in our college.

In the two episodes, we discuss a number of different resources you may find useful. I apologize that these may not be in the order in which we discussed them:

Article - The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Caught Podcast - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/caught
We also discussed the work our partners at Ball State University are doing in their English department. You can learn more about BSU's English department here: https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/english. Their specific recent blog post about decolonizing curriculum is available at https://blogs.bsu.edu/english/blog/2020/06/05/english-department-commits-to-anti-racist-action/
In the second episode we also discussed the activity from Unpack Your Knapsack which you can find at https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf.
We also heard about The Root which you can visit at https://www.theroot.com/.

Thanks again to every member of our conversation. It takes a great deal of courage to have these conversations. As the Call to Action I remind you that if something made you feel uncomfortable or even angry, please sit with that for a little while. Ask yourself why. Have a conversation with a colleague you trust to talk with you honestly about the issues of race and racism.

Get In Touch!

You can connect with Kara Monroe on twitter @KNMTweets

Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu.

Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion.

Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.