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The Living Our Values Experience (LOVE) program brings students, faculty, and staff together to do antiracist work and study and develop practices and interconnections between structural systems of discrimination and oppression, including bias, stereotype, prejudice, microaggressions, privilege, and power. It responds directly to the Black Lives Matter movement and calls from President Nair for an “open course” to address racial justice. The LOVE program invests in our community to formulate a much-needed space for students, staff, and faculty to collaborate on strengthening the Arcadia community and examining their role within society as agents of change. As you can see below, the Spring Semester builds on the Fall, is structured somewhat differently, and includes a core focus on planning for action.
In the Fall of 2021, Working Groups Addressing racial inequities in education, art history, public health, criminal justice, sports, and the workplace will meet each week on Wednesdays from 4-5:30pm. This experience can fulfill the Global Connections Experience if students also register for GCR101. (Please email at lovepilot@arcadia.edu if you are interested in this option). The goal for the groups is to work together to plan for antiracist action to address these issues on campus and/or in the local community. If you are interested in learning more about the projects that Working Groups were thinking about in the Spring, please check out this video of The Spring 2021 Changemakers Summit.
We will also have 3 Teach-Ins this fall that will be open to the wider Arcadia community and will focus on the experiences of members of the Arcadia campus and the wider community in taking antiracist action.
Students who join this program will receive a wide array of benefits, from the immediate and timely opportunity to become better equipped to understand and address racial inequality, to the valuable preparation to enter a diverse workforce, to become an effective agent in changing the structural systems that keep racism alive and well in our nation.
Arcadia's LOVE Pilot Program offers a learning experience that addresses important skills in racial justice, including:
The structure of the LOVE Pilot Program is designed to combine large group (L) learning opportunities with a small group (S) experiential and discussion format to allow for integrating and understanding the topic on multiple levels. The culmination of the experience will include a group presentation of projects. Participants will have to fulfill minimum participation requirements, and two-term participants will be granted a certificate of completion.
It is possible to link the LOVE Pilot experience to the GCR101 requirement, to that a new University Seminar Called "Where Race Lives" that integrates the experiential elements of the LOVE Program into the course schedule. Honors students can also count the LOVE Pilot experience as a part of their Honors Program experience. Graduate internships are also available. For questions about these links between the LOVE Pilot and the AU Curriculum, please email lovepilot@arcadia.edu.
An Arcadia Call to Action: How Can We Be Better Anti-Racists? Speakers: Doreen Loury, Director of Pan-African Studies and Assistant Professor of Sociology; Jessie Guinn, Assistant Dean of STEM, College of Global Studies; Jennifer Riggan, Professor of International Studies
Bias/Microaggressions/Racial Abuse: How can we do better/heal? Speakers: Favian Guertin-Martin, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of the Criminal Justice Program; Lauren Reid, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Counseling
Working for Racial Justice at Arcadia: What are we doing; what more can we do? Speakers: Student Members, CTLM/Just Act Ensemble
Small-Group (S) Fall 2021: The small racially mixed Working Groups will focus on understanding intersectionality and generating solutions for persistent and systemic racial disparities. Each small group will create and collaborate to investigate issues and determine actions that addresses structural racism, either within Arcadia, the local community, or beyond, and prepare to present at the end of the term.
If you have further questions, please contact LOVEpilot@arcadia.edu.
If you have further questions, please contact LOVEpilot@arcadia.edu
Ellen Skilton, Ph.D. (she/her)
Faculty Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring (CTLM)
Professor of Education
Keisha Robinson, M.Ed. (she/her)
LOVE Pilot Coordinator
Fall 2021 Registration: If you are an undergraduate or graduate student and you already know this program is a fit for you, we encourage you to register. Application deadline: August 30th.
By Nomination: We are asking faculty and staff to nominate students who might benefit from or contribute to this program. If you are nominated you will receive an invitation to apply.
Note: Participation is always optional, but if you nominated, you are strongly encouraged to register. It is possible to join the program for one term only, but you are encouraged to participate for the entire year if possible. Certificates of completion are only available for full-year participants.