Pomona BSU is hosting a student faculty get together! This is an opportunity for Black students across the 5C's to meet and build relationships with Black professionals as well as be connected to a wider community here on campus. This event will be held on February 19th in the Hart Room 201 from 11am- 1pm. There will be games, pizza, and refreshments provided. If you are interested, please RSVP with this link so that we have a headcount of those able to attend. If you would like future events such as this one or are willing to have students reach out [...]

The Pitzer course Organizational Studies 180 will have a guest speaker - Scott Markley, PhD, Research Director at National Zoning Atlas - on the HOLC "redlining" maps of the 1930s. This guest lecture is open to the consortial community and will be held at the Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College. Talk Description: An expanding body of research has sought to connect the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's (HOLC) "redlining" maps from the 1930s to a wide array of present-day social injustices in the United States. The assertion has been that these federally produced maps helped entrench emerging co-geographies of racial segregation and [...]