President Bergman recently announced a new action plan created by The Presidents Council for Diversity Equity and Inclusion entitled the Blueprint for Progress. Aiming to better the college’s policies and practices to further fair access to resources. On April 12 President Bergman hosted an open campus discussion to hear feed back from students on the proposed actions and expectations for the plan. The goal is … Continue reading Bergman kicks off ‘Blueprint for Progress’: The President’s Council for Diversity Equity and Inclusion annouces three year plan to improve college policy

The Diversity Center at Gustavus Adolphus College hosted its first Women of Color Summit to support and empower young Women of Color who attend post-secondary education institutions within Minnesota. The summit hosted keynote speaker Minnesota State Representative Susan Allen, the first Native American woman to serve in the Minnesota Legislature and the first openly lesbian Native American to win election to a state legislature. In … Continue reading Women of Color Summit to be held on campus : First annual conference aims to inpsire and provide networking opportunities

The Diversity Center invites the Gustavus community to join them for the Multicultural Faculty Panel. This event is sponsored by the Diversity Center and includes a panel discussion from a diverse group of Gustavus faculty. “Panelists will talk about how they use their identities to navigate through society, experiences they have encountered, and how their intersecting identities affect their work or experience here [at] Gustavus. … Continue reading Diversity Center looks to find pathway to success: A Multicultural Faculty Panel will shed light on the experience of minority groups on campus

On Thursday, Feb. 28, Gustavus Adolphus College students gathered in Wallenberg Auditorium to hear the lecture, Climate Refugees: An Unrecognized Challenge At Home and Abroad by Cornell University Professor Dr. María Cristina García. This event is part of a series of Wallenberg lectures established in honor of Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who organized and rescued many Hungarian-Jews from Nazi-Germany. In Budapest, Wallenberg … Continue reading Climate lecture draw massive crowd

The third annual Latino Film Festival will open at 7:00 p.m. on Feb. 27 in the Wallenberg Theater in Nobel Hall with the movie Guarani directed by Luis Zorraquin. This festival took place in 2013 and 2015, and was brought back through the efforts of Spanish professor Dario Sanchez Gonzalez. There will be 5 movies shown over the course of five weeks–one each week. Admission … Continue reading Gustavus Professor brings back Latino Festival: Dario Sanchez Gonzalez works to screen films that struggle to obtain mainstream exposure