The Honors College seeks students to participate in the pilot of a new program intended to to help us cultivate an anti-racist culture.
This co-curricular program will run from September 2020 through May 2021. Students selected to participate will meet once a month with five other students and an Honors College faciliator. The groups are designed to help students establish a level of trust that allows them to ask real questions of one another and listen with the openness tha allows them to learn from those whose perspectives differ from their own.
Groups will:
- connect students representing a broad range of exxperiences, perspectives, and identities
- build new relationships
- develop communication abilities
- strengthen the Honors College and Mason communities
Participants will do brief readings, watch videos, and engage in activities outside of the monthy readings to support these goals. The time commitment for a student should be approximately 4 hours/month, combining the in-and-out-of-group work. This makes it more akin in commitment to involvement in a student organization than enrollment in a course.
Applications are due Sunday, August 30th at 11:59pm.