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Wed, Feb 27, 2019
Wall Street Journal Wednesdays
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room B
Please join Stephanie Hockman, Loeb Center program director for careers in business and finance, for a weekly informal discussion on any of your favorite Wall Street Journal articles. This informal lunch group will meet every Wednesday from noon – 1 p.m. in Terrace Room B on the lower level of Valentine Hall. Grab some lunch and join the discussion!
#AmherstChatBack: Students, Staff & Faculty Dialogue Luncheon Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keefe Campus Center, Friedmann Room
Please join us for our inaugural students, staff and faculty #AmherstChatBack Dialogue Series, which offers an opportunity to engage in critical conversations across difference, gain dialogue skills and learn from one another as we build community among students, staff and faculty.
Dialogues will take place over 5 weeks, each session focusing on a different social and cultural topic such as race, gender, nationality, joy and traditions. Participants should come prepared to share their own personal histories, thoughts, and experiences related to each topic. This event is open to all students, staff and faculty. Lunch will be served.
Identity and Inclusion, Part 1
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ford Hall, Event Space, Room 107
Explore your own identities using a model of identity development and consider the impact of power and privilege in the ways in which we understand our own sense of self and that of others. This session offers an opportunity to reflect on the importance of our own identities as we work towards intentionally inclusive communities at Amherst College. Intended for any interested staff or faculty member, this session is part one of a two-part series.
Please click the link below to register!
Registration Required
Peer Advocates' 2nd Annual Community Promise Tabling
The Peer Advocates for Sexual Respect will be tabling in Val and and the Keefe Campus Center this week to gather community responses to the prompt "Why and how we support survivors". These responses will be organized into a community poem that will be read by community members on March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Power House. Stop by to give your response, sign up to be a reader, take some resources, or just say hello!
Loeb Center Seniors Only Series (SOS!): Job Search Support Sessions
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Science Center, Room E212
Seniors, are you feeling the pressure to nail down your post-grad plans? You’re not alone! Come join your fellow class members to work on job and/or fellowship applications and receive in-person support from Peer Career Advisors (PCAs). Each session, the PCAs will also offer brief tips and advice about specific job search topics such as networking and negotiating job offers. There will be snacks and good company! Feel free to come and go as it fits your schedule.
The series will occur Wednesdays from 8–10 p.m. Additional information is available for each event:
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