The Diversity & Inclusion Blog

QMass and SNMA will be hosting a Spoken Word for Inclusion Open Mic Night on Tuesday, November 29^th. The event will provide a space for healing, reflection, respectful expression of emotion, and garnering of hope for our students of color, LGBT students, and all other members of the UMass Community. 

Sukkot is primarily a Jewish tradition as a harvest festival, it commemorates a historical event and it has a spiritual or metaphysical dimension: it is a reminder to us that as human beings, we are vulnerable to God/Nature.

Our annual Campus Read Program promotes academic discourse and critical thinking on a topic that is both timely and important for our campus community and our mission areas.  Currently, opioid abuse is a serious public health issue and drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States.  As  the commonwealth’s only public medical school, stemming the drug crisis is important to our mission of service to our communities and neighbors. 

QMass, UMass' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interest Group, would like to personally invite you to a Candlelight Vigil held for the victims of Orlando on Wednesday, August 3rd, at 7 PM in front of the Medical School. 

Mindfulness practice opportunities are now available at all UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester at no cost to employees.  Mindfulness Champions are individuals trained in how to facilitate mindfulness meditation practice sessions at the nationally recognized UMass Center for Mindfulness. Attend (at no cost) the July 14 6PM Champions training, at the Center for Mindfulness in Shrewsbury, MA

Our campus conversation, Cultivating a Culture of Respect, facilitated by Candi Castleberry Singleton,  is part of our system-wide diversity competence education initiative, Bullying: Beyond Finger-Pointing to a Culture of Respect.  We are pleased to welcome Candi for this very important conversation to assist us in a campus assessment and developing diversity competencies that enhance our culture of respect.