House Hunt Lab

Come to the Off Campus Living office on March 6th at 12pm for our annual Housing Hunt Lab where you can speak to our wonderful staff about any and all l questions pertaining to living off campus.

Peace Corps Faculty/Staff Luncheon and Info Session

Peace Corps Faculty/Staff Luncheon and Info Session. Lunch will be provided and the showing of the Peace Corps Documentary "A Towering Task" will be shown.

Alassane Abdoulaye Dia

Alassane Abdoulaye Dia
“The African American Journey”
February 23, 2021 @ 3PM
Alassane Dia is the author of The Power of Peace and Love: An African Tale of Wisdom (Goldline & Jacobs, 2020) and The Voice of the Tradition in the African Novel (Goldline & Jacobs, 2015). Dia is a faculty member at Gaston Berger University in St. Louis, Senegal and is a Tukuloor Fulani from Podor, Northern Senegal. He is an multilingual expert in African and Black Diasporic Literature.

Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Black Politics

Racial threat continues to be a primary issue facing Black Americans in the United States. Specifically, the threat of police violence looms large and constant for many young Black people, especially during this COVID-19 moment. Yet, little is known about how young Black Americans' experiences with threat shape their political attitudes and responses. In this project, Jackson examines the role of racial threat in influencing young Black Americans’ political behavior via surveys, experiments, and qualitative interviews.

Choosing and Declaring a Major Drop-In Session

Do you need help choosing your major? Do you want more information on how to declare your major? Stop by one of the Choosing and Declaring a Major Drop-In Zoom Sessions to talk with an academic advisor or career counselor:
Tuesday, February 9, join anytime between 3-5pm
Wednesday, February 17, join anytime between 10am-12pm
Visit the Academic Advising Center's website at https://advising.wwu.edu for login information.

Huxley Speaker Series: Read All About It: What's the News of the Salish Sea? (Mike Sato)

The Salish Sea is one body of water demarcated by an international border where loonies and toonies and dollars and cents are the respective coins of the realm. A common language is shared across the border but news seldom is. Both sides of this border have suffered from what writer William Dietrich describes in “Erosion in local news threatens democracy” as "news deserts" and "ghost papers," a collapse of traditional news reporting resulting from the loss of local media ownership and decimation of newsrooms.

Huxley Speaker Series: Scaling Change: Imagining Future Ecologies (Adam Huggins & Mendel Skulski)

In the midst of global climate crisis, the environmental maxim - think globally, act locally - seems to ask us to live with one ear to the ground, and one earbud to the infosphere. If the answer to globalized climate chaos is localized climate justice, then how do we scale our place-tethered actions? If we are to be plant-like, rooted in place, then what will compose the mycelial networks that help us communicate and grow together? What kind of media will compose our soils? Future Ecologies is a podcast created to tell stories that might start to answer these questions.

Huxley Speaker Series: Salmon People: Tracing Indigenous resistance across the Pacific Northwest (Ruth Miller)

What is the meaning of a canoe, a fish camp, a dam? What is the significance of a salmon, to a development corporation, or to a peoples whose millennia old culture has revolved around that relative? The Natural History Museum (nonprofit) has launched a powerful visual narrative project, bringing together stories of Bristol Bay, the Salish Sea, the Klamath River and the Snake River.

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