Showing events on October 17, 2019
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Public Comments Event: HUD Changes to Civil Rights' Fair Housing Protections
October 17, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
In August 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a new rule with the potential to dismantle important civil rights protections against discrimination in housing.
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of housing and in other housing-related activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. However, HUD's new rule proposes to replace the use of "disparate impact" in determining housing discrimination and to raise the burden of proof required to prove discrimination. Moreover, the new rule proposes to release lenders and landlords from responsibility for computer-based algorithms that discriminate while automating decisions about credit scoring, home insurance, and mortgage interest rates.
Come learn about submitting public comments and make your voice heard on this critical issue! No prior experience submitting public comments is necessary.
Please visit B780 in the School of Social Work on Thursday, October 17, 2019 any time between 12:00pm to 1:30pm to submit a public comment regarding this rule.
Public comments on this rule will only be accepted until October 18, 2019.
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Field Placement Application Due for 16-month Students
October 17, 2019 (all day)
Field Placement Application due for 16-month students starting field in January 2020
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Idealist.org Seattle Graduate School Fair
October 17, 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Stop by the Idealist.org Graduate School Fair to speak with an admissions representative about U-M's MSW and PhD programs. The fair is free and open to anyone considering graduate school.
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Revolution and Evolution: Lessons From James and Grace Lee Boggs
October 17, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
The Semester in Detroit program, Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor (SSW) and the Bogg Center invite your participation in a discussion about James and Grace Lee Boggs vision, framework, and application of transformational social change grassroots leadership. Hosted by Boggs Center board members Stephen Ward and Tawana Petty, the session will explorelessons learned from James and Grace Lee Boggs’ lifelong legacy of community organizing in the cityof Detroit. Through structured facilitation and reflection, participants will engage in discussion that examines the following questions:
What is (r)evolutionary social change?
What is the difference between a “riot” and a “rebellion”?
How do we move from a moment to a movement?
What is the role of dialectical thinking in deep divides?
What are transformative aims toward social justice?
Participants are highly encouraged to watch the American Revolutionary film, and read the publishedwork of James and Grace Lee Boggs prior attending this session for a historical overview.
Light dinner served
SpeakersTawana Petty (Honeycomb): is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She is the Director ofPetty Propolis, where she gets to grow through organizing transformative art and education initiatives. Honeycomb is afour-time author and founding member and editor of Riverwise Magazine, a Data Justice Coordinator for the DetroitCommunity Technology Project, a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, a Detroit Equity Action Lab fellow anda board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. To learn more aboutTawana "Honeycomb" Petty visit her website at honeycombthepoet.org.
Stephen Ward, PhD: is a lead faculty member with the Semester in Detroit program, historian who teaches inthe RC Social Theory and Practice program (STP) as well as the Department of Afroamerican and AfricanStudies (DAAS).