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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

10:00-11:30 a.m.

A site visit to increase our understanding of Islam and the local Muslim-American experiences. The visit included an "Introduction to Islam" presentation followed by a tour of the mosque and a debrief session.

Monday, May 6, 2024

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

As part of our Genocide and Holocaust Education Programming, we will be gathering to read the names and honor the memories of victims of atrocities, read by students, faculty, staff and community members.

This event is co-sponsored by: Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, Genocide and Holocaust Education Council, Chabad on Campus, Diversity Affairs Council, African Students’ Union, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Sikh Student Association, and the Center for American and World Cultures (Global Initiatives).

Monday, April 15, 2024

A site visit to increase our understanding of the Holocaust and local Jewish-American experiences. The visit included a debrief after the tour to reflect on what it means to be an upstander.

This event is co-sponsored by Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú.

April 2024

Our office provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Jewish American History Month.

April 2024

Our office provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Arab American Heritage Month.

Friday, April 9, 2024

The Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence in partnership with Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú hosted "Memories in the Living Room," a Shabbat dinner featuring the story of a Holocaust survivor. This event will feature a Shabbat service, followed by a conversation with the Holocaust survivor.

This event is co-sponsored by Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú.

We invite faculty, students, and staff to participate in Inclusive Community Days, a quiet space-time to decompress and participate in self-care. Participate in small, individual, and group activities for reflection and wellness. Light refreshments are available.

Tuesday, April 2┃10:30 A.M. to 12 p.m.

Samina Sohail, MD, vice chair at the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati (ICGC), educates the campus community about the Muslim-American experience, examines common misconceptions and stereotypes, and shares about the Islamic faith from the perspective of a local Muslim-American.

Join a dialogue about the diversity of faith traditions within the Black faith traditions. Join Faith leaders to discuss how they make the invisible visible through remembering and acknowledging historical and cultural traditions, spiritual diversity, empowerment and resilience.

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

Presentation facilitated for the State of Ohio Higher Education institutions

Thursday, February 1

Noon to 2 p.m.| ASC Atrium

Join the Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence to learn about the spring semester Heritage and History months and campus resources. The Cultural Celebration Series is an event series designed to celebrate the cultural heritage months for the spring semester.

A comprehensive training facilitated by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) aims to equip participants with essential knowledge and strategies to combat the growing issue of antisemitism on college campuses through the particular lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The training addressed the roots and manifestations of antisemitism, drawing upon data from AJC's recent State of Antisemitism Report, and highlighting real-world examples through honest dialogue. Additionally, participants gained valuable tools to identify, respond to, and prevent antisemitism within the higher education setting and learn more about AJC’s work with higher education institutions, both private and public. Armed with knowledge, data, and practical strategies, participants will play a crucial role in fostering inclusive and welcoming academic environments for all students, faculty, and staff. AJC was joined by Whitney Fisch, Executive Director of Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, who provided an on-the-ground, student-facing perspective.

Join us in an engaging conversation about faith, sexual orientation, and gender identity within faith communities. Panelists will reflect on and discuss how these identities overlap and how faith communities can build spaces of belonging.

Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Jewish American History Month.

Wednesday, April 17, 2023

A workshop for students and faculty on intercultural leadership and inclusive pedagogy. These skills tend to be applied in Global Education work without an equity lens and are often framed as at odds with U.S. DEI work. Dr. Ahmed will offer a way to synergize these approaches and consider the role and implications of colonialism, Christian hegemony, and indigenous ways of being to interrupt those realities that are embedded into our existing educational systems, including higher education.

This workshop was a part of this year's Better Together programming. This event was co-sponsored by Global Initiatives, Multifaith Engagement for Transformative Action Collective (META), and the Oxford Interfaith Center.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Join us for an evening with Dr. Amer F. Ahmed, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Vermont, who will share about Islam and Islamophobia, providing needed context for us to help bridge divides exposed by the post-9/11 era.

This workshop was a part of this year's Better Together programming. This event was co-sponsored by Global Initiatives, Multifaith Engagement for Transformative Action Collective (META), and the Oxford Interfaith Center.

Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Arab American Heritage Month.

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Noon - 2:00 pm | Campus Seal

Please join us to learn more about Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month, Arab American Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, and connect on-campus resources. The Cultural Celebration Series is an event series designed to celebrate cultural heritage months.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

As part of our Genocide and Holocaust Education Programming, we gathered to read the names and honor the memories of victims of atrocities, read by students, faculty, staff and community members.

This event is co-sponsored by Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, Genocide and Holocaust Education Council, Chabad on Campus, Diversity Affairs Council, African Students’ Union, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Sikh Student Association, and the Center for American and World Cultures (Global Initiatives).

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A presentation about the life of Henry Fenichel. Henry Fenichel was born in The Netherlands in 1938. Shortly after the Nazi rise to power, sensing the danger, Henry's parents sent a request for their relocation to Palestine where his father’s family resided. After Henry's father was deported and murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, Henry and his mother still had no response to their request to immigrate. They then went into hiding. When Henry was four years old, he and his mother’s hiding place was discovered and they were transported to the Westerbork transit camp. Shortly after arriving, they learned of a prisoner exchange that would allow a select number of Jews to escape to Palestine. Through a miraculous series of events, Henry's mother was able to get them on the list for “transport 222”. In June 1944, Henry, his mother and 220 other Dutch individuals left Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, eventually arriving to freedom in British Mandate Palestine.

This event is co-sponsored by Genocide and Holocaust Education Council, Chabad on Campus, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Libraries, and the Center for American and World Cultures (Global Initiatives).

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

A story of a family's survival of the Armenian genocide. Patricia Makaroff is a second-generation Armenian American who was born in Detroit, Michigan. Both her maternal and paternal grandparents were survivors of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated against Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915. Her grandparents settled in the Detroit area, where there remains a large Armenian community. She was married in St. John Armenian Church in Southfield, Michigan. She has lived in Oxford, Ohio with her husband Chris since 1989. Her 2 children, Erik and Katherine, are both ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University alumni.

Sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation.

This event is co-sponsored by Hillel at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, Genocide and Holocaust Education Council, Chabad on Campus, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Libraries, and the Center for American and World Cultures (Global Initiatives).

The Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Jewish American History Month.

The Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence office provides passive social media programming to inform our audience about historical figures, books, and media, along with campus resources annually for Arab American Heritage Month.

Tuesday, April 5

Join the Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence to learn about the spring semester Heritage and History months and campus resources. This social highlighted APIDA Heritage Month, Arab American Heritage Month, and Jewish American History Month.