Diversity and inclusion

Step Up to Leadership

Curriculum for novice board members enhancing understanding of diversity and human nature.

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Introduction to Equity-Centered Community Design

Event date: May 13, 2021 - June 10, 2021

Oppressive, inequitable, and unequal systems are by design; therefore, we can redesign them. Equity-Centered Community Design (ECCD) is a creative problem-solving framework pioneered by Creative Reaction Lab that centers History & Healing and ...

Neighboring 101 Series for 2021

Event date: May 20, 2021 - Dec. 16, 2021

We live in a smile and wave culture where neighbors do not know each others names and seldom develop meaningful relationships. At the same time we have a national epidemic of loneliness, we say we feel more isolated than ever, and our communities ...

Community Organizing and Advocacy

Event date: June 14, 2021 - June 18, 2021

Monday, June 14, 2021 - Friday, June 18, 20211:00 - 2:30 p.m., each dayCommunity-based social work and public health practice seeks to support social change that overrides structural barriers and facilitates power-building for vulnerable populations. ...

Community Design Apprenticeship Program

Event date: July 4, 2021 - Nov. 14, 2021

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

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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 ...

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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