Diversity and inclusion

Neighboring 101

Monthly zoom classes that look at the issue of neighboring by highlighting examples across the nation where it is being done well.

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Introduction to Neighboring 101 (2022)

Event date: Jan. 20, 2022 - Dec. 15, 2022

Numerous research studies show less than three percent of Americans say they know the names of their neighbors, know a fact about them, and have spoken to their neighbors in the last month. This lack of relationships among neighbors has a negative ...

Community Design Apprenticeship Program

Event date: March 18, 2022 - Nov. 20, 2022

Start redesigning racial and health inequities in St. Louis through our Community Design Apprenticeship Program!Through the Community Design Apprenticeship Program (CDAP), Creative Reaction Lab is educating and training formerly incarcerated and ...

Systems Change Primer

Event date: June 17, 2022 - Oct. 21, 2022

The Systems Change Primer is a workshop (presented virtually in 2022) designed to refresh and reiterate the key tenets of Systems Change methodology as explicitly tied to achieving Racial Equity. Facilitators will offer a shared learning and guide ...

FOCUS Women In Leadership

Event date: Sept. 17, 2022 - Dec. 10, 2022

St. Louis, MO

Offered each spring and fall, the FOCUS Women In Leadership (WIL) program offers the opportunity to refine your personal, professional and civic leadership competencies, learn about the St. Louis community, and connect with other women from diverse ...

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MU receives USDA grant to help veterans, Latinos, women and others to farm

Published: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $179,614 grant to the University of Missouri to support efforts to help veterans, Latinos, women and socially disadvantaged persons to farm or go into agribusiness.The grant will fund ...

Boots on the Green

Published: Friday, May 23, 2014

GRANITE CITY, Ill.– After Bobby Hutchinson lost his left leg in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, he thought he’d never play golf again.“I just kind of had it in my head that that chapter in my life was over,” says Hutchinson, who was a ...

New documentary on Eliot Battle previews Feb. 25 on MU campus

Published: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Local civil rights pioneer Eliot Battle is the subject of a new documentary that chronicles his pivotal role in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community.On Feb. 25 at 7 p.m., University of Missouri Extension will ...

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Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: Growing Together in New Destination Areas

Publication date: June 1, 2015

Cambio de Colores as a yearly event aims to strengthen the networks of community organizers, extension professionals, academics, and public and private-sector institutions focused on communities that are changing as a result of newcomer settlements, ...

Battle: Cambio Desde Adentro — Currículum de la Guía de Observación

Publication date: July 22, 2014

Este documental es sobre el educador Eliot Battle y el papel fundamental que jugó en la desegregación de las escuelas, barrios residenciales y en la comunidad en general de Columbia, Missouri. Battle promovió estos cambios a través de la vía ...

Battle: Change From Within, Curriculum Viewing Guide — Schools, Community and 4-H

Publication date: June 1, 2014

This documentary is about educator Eliot Battle and the pivotal role he played in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community. As Battle facilitated changes with quiet resolve, he faced resistance from both the black and white ...

Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: Positive Steps Toward a Pluralist Society

Publication date: June 1, 2014

Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: At the Crossroads, ¿Incorporation or Marginalization?

Publication date: June 1, 2013

Battle: Change From Within, Curriculum Viewing Guide — 4-H

Publication date: Dec. 1, 2012

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