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September 2014 Update

Welcome to September! We hope everyone has had a wonderful summer, and we welcome you all to the new year. There are several updates here, as it’s been a busy summer, so I’ll try to break them up into chunks for you. Things that happened with Crucial Conversations over the summer: We set a series…

Posted by on September 1, 2014 in News


Ferguson Response at Vanderbilt

On September 8th, the NAACP, BSA, and Kappas are sponsoring a forum: “Black Lives Matter.” The flyer is here. Please email Dr. Frank Dobson (frank.dobson@vanderbilt.edu) if you have any questions about these events. Also, the program in African American and Diaspora Studies will be holding a 3-part series on Activism and Social Justice in “post-racial”…

Posted by on August 26, 2014 in News


Goals for Crucial Conversations

As many of you know, these past couple of months have been about vision, reflecting on what we learned last year to move forward this next year. At our first June meeting, the team came together (students and faculty that have been involved) to discuss the broader narrative of what it would look and feel like…

Posted by on July 16, 2014 in News


End-of-year message 2014

Now that the academic year has finished, we, the Crucial Conversations team, would like to take this moment to thank everyone who has participated with our work thus far. We have made a lot of progress this year, and we’ve gotten lots of support. Click here for a brief document outlining our thanks to this community….

Posted by on June 12, 2014 in News


More updates to be coming soon!

We’re currently in the process of setting up our summer work and updating people on what has happened this year. Stay tuned!

Posted by on May 26, 2014 in News


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