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Alabama Civil Rights Trip Was Living History for Students
In March 2012, during Ursinus College's spring break, eight students of Chaplain, Reverend Charles Rice's African American Religious Experience class, traveled to Alabama for a civil rights trip. The elective class's small size allowed for deep…
Ursinus Board Meets on Diversity
The newspaper article details an Ursinus College board meeting in 2012 regarding diversity on campus. A report given to the board by the FDC expresses dissatisfaction with the current handling of diversity affairs on campus. It is stated in the…
SOC-258 African American Experiences
The text focuses on a reworked course offered during the 2017-2018 course catalog. The course was formerly titled African American Experience. The course focuses on the multitude of intersecting experiences and identities of African Americas. course…
SOC-258 African American Experience
The text focuses on a course offered in the 2016-2017 course catalog. The course focuses on the historical and contextual context of the experience of African Americans in the United States. The course is taught by unnamed Sociology faculty. The…
SOC-255 Race and Ethnic Relations
The text focuses on a reworked course offered during the 2017-2018 course catalog. The course was formerly titled American Ethnic Groups. Race and Ethnic Relation focuses on and cognizes the complexity of the interaction between ethnicity and race.…
SOC-255 American Ethnic Groups
The text focuses on a course offered in the 2016-2017 course catalog. The course focuses on the political, social, and economic context of ethnic groups in the United States. This course description forges the relation between race and ethnicity. The…
Values Next Forum Topic
Dr. Reuben A. Sheares was invited to speak at Ursinus College on Values and the Ultimate Concern. Dr. Sheares was the executive director for the Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ and was most well known for his book Next…
African Politics Subject of Oct. 15 Forum
In October of 1980, political scientist Kenneth W. Grundy was invited to speak at Ursinus College about the Great Powers of Africa. At the time of the event, Grundy had visited Africa for his research six times and spent his time traveling and…
Ursinus Joins the National Minority Faculty Identification Program
This is a series of primary sources documenting the college's joining of The Chronicle of Higher Education's Minority Faculty Vita Bank, and related documents explaining and describing exactly what that means. The first document is a one-page letter…
Ursinus College Minority Student Union Constitution
These two typed pages are the constitution drawn up for the Minority Students Union. Although it is undated it was pulled from the Ursinusiana archives from a folder labeled 1987/1988 so can be tentatively dated to that general timeline. The…