May 20, 2025 - 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET
We invite you to become a Community Conversations facilitator! We extend this opportunity to all SSW staff, students, and faculty.
There will be a two-session Community Conversations facilitator training, held on Zoom on May 20th and May 27th from 5-7 pm EST. Both Press enter to read full text...
April 18, 2025 - 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation around the ethics of AI on April 18th from 11am-12pm EST.
As generated by ChatGPT: "AI is rapidly transforming academia, offering tools like predictive analytics and virtual support to enhance services and decision-making. Press enter to read full text...
April 11, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
We invite you to a community conversation around Grief and Pet Loss.
For the lives that are carving rooms in our hearts, we will explore what human-animal relationships each person holds towards species outside of their own, the significance of this form of love, and Press enter to read full text...
April 7, 2025 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation around Hopes, Dreams, and the Future.
Now feels like the perfect time to imagine the future we want to create. Let’s come together in community to share our hopes, explore our dreams, and brainstorm ways we can shape a vigorous tomorrow. This conversation is meant to be uplifting, healing, and a place where we can draw strength from each other as we move forward in unity.
April 2, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation around International Student Experience.
Join us for a community conversation to discuss the international student experience and explore some of the challenges and realities of adjusting to life in a new cultural context. Press enter to read full text...
March 31, 2025 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation around Beauty Standards via Zoom.
Beauty standards are woven into our existence whether we conform to them, challenge them, or feel caught somewhere in between. These standards shape our self-perception, influence how we move Press enter to read full text...
February 28, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation about Misinformation and Disinformation on Friday, February 28th at 12:00 pm EST.
During our conversation, we will discuss the issues of misinformation and disinformation. According to Debunk.org, misinformation refers to the Press enter to read full text...
February 24, 2025 - 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM ET
We invite you to a community conversation around domestic violence in the court system with special guest Dr. Daniel G. Saunders on February 24, 2025 at 6:30 pm.
We are trying out a unique format in which a guest speaker will present a 10 minute mini-lecture on the Press enter to read full text...
February 11, 2025 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation about Aging within our Current Society.
At our conversation, we'll consider questions like what is expected of us as we age? How are we perceived by others, and does it change as we age? Is it impacted by our status? Our Press enter to read full text...
January 15, 2025 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Did you know that New Year’s resolutions have been in practice for 4000 years? As many as 48% of the global population currently make them, and nowadays they are often centered around self-improvement. This conversation will focus on how we decide on resolutions, and how this process intersects (or doesn’t) with self-care. You don’t need a resolution (or to share yours) to join!
November 20, 2024 - 6:30 PM ET
We know advocacy is critical to effecting change around issues like racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and intimate partner violence. But sometimes we don't know how to even get started. Let's come together to share ideas about how we have (or could) engage in advocacy work.
This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community.
November 6, 2024 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
The election is just around the corner! We may or may not know the outcome by the day after the election, but no matter where things stand, we anticipate that people may want to come together to talk.
Election results can bring out a full range of emotions. We invite Press enter to read full text...
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