Today the President of the United States joined San Francisco, the state of California and a bunch more towns and states around the country in naming Monday, October 11 as Indigenous People’s Day. It’s a small way to recognize the enormous and essential contributions made by indigenous people to this country, as well as to … Continue reading Native American names and sports teams: more than just words
The 2021 Annual Critical Diversities Studies Forum took place this past Thursday with the theme being centered on the examination of the role of radical imagination. The special guest and keynote speaker this year was the writer and activist, adrienne maree brown. 700 people were registered to attend the event which included a wide variety … Continue reading Critical Diversity 2021 Annual Forum : adrienne maree brown
Recent LGBTQIA+ resources at Gleeson Library:
Continue reading “Pride every day”From the Vault is a series highlighting recent projects, research, and interesting finds from the Special Collections & University Archives department at the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. This post features KUSF Wave Sector, the newspaper publication of the beloved KUSF radio station. Inspired by a recent research inquiry on local concert advertisements from the … Continue reading From the Vault 3(01)
Since its founding in 1968, the USF Black Student Union (BSU) has had an undeniably profound and lasting impact on the University of San Francisco, from building a Black Studies Program from the ground up, pushing for an increase in Black faculty, and recruiting Black students from local high schools to the university, to creating … Continue reading USF Black Student Union Digital Collection to Debut
Titles purchased through Gleeson’s Diversity Award program continue to arrive.
Continue reading “New Diversity Award title, July 1, 2021”Summer is almost here. To help you decide on an interesting read, we’ve compiled a gallery of books that have been made into movies. Continue reading Books to Movies
Titles purchased through Gleeson’s Diversity Award program continue to arrive.
Continue reading “New Diversity Award titles, May 11, 2021”Gleeson Library has purchased 24 books so far through the Gleeson Diversity Award program. Sherise Kimura, Electronic Resources Librarian, described the program and the first five titles in a previous blog post.
Continue reading “Find all the Diversity Award titles in one place”On Thursday, March 25, 2021 Gleeson Library | Geschke Center hosted a wide-ranging conversation between two of San Francisco’s most impactful poets: San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and University of San Francisco Professor of English and Poet Dean Rader. Shabnam Koirala-Azad, Professor and Dean, School of Education moderated this event. During the hour-long dialogue, … Continue reading Gleeson Hosts Poets Tongo Eisen-Martin and Dean Rader in Conversation, Moderated by Shabnam Koirala-Azad
