Motlow State Community College will welcome Dr. Fredrick Douglass Dixon on Feb. 23 when he presents “The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom at mscc.zoom.us/j/93950141333.
The presentation is part of Motlowâs celebration of African American History Month, embracing and modeling diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Motlowâs Access and Diversity Committee, Community Relations Office, NIXLA Fellows, and the Dean of Students office are cohosting the event.
About Dr. Dixon
Dr. Dixon is an educator and community advocate.
He is the director of the University of Wyomingâs Black Studies Center and an assistant professor in the African American and Diaspora Studies Department.
February 11, 2021
More than 100 members of the University of Wyoming community have agreed to serve on groups charged with developing a university strategic plan to recommend to President Ed Seidel and the UW Board of Trustees later this spring.
In addition to a 13-member Strategic Scenario Planning Team, five groups have been assembled to address specific pieces in the planning process. Their work, including solicitation of input from across the university and around the state, will help the administration chart the university’s course for the future.
Strategic scenario planning is taking place concurrently with reviews of academic and other programs of the university in response to significant budget reductions driven by losses of state funding.
February 1, 2021
Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration.
“The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public.
“This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice. “Each event examines the layered nuances of the economic, political and social impacts of Black Wall Street’s death.”