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The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Strategic plan enhances resources for students

Alexia Kim, Staff Reporter April 13, 2018

Last fall, the Division of Student Affairs proposed a new, three-year strategic plan to identify the University’s priorities and to define their main goals and values for the next three years. Through...

Bennett: Rethinking the term “diversity”

Edward Bennett, Columnist December 2, 2016

Diversity and the lack thereof have been hotly debated topics on college campuses. It is hard not to hear this buzz word when entering a college campus and seeing the centers and programs dedicated to...

Diversity 360 training now required for faculty and staff members

Sruthi Meka, Staff Reporter October 14, 2016

This past March, in an effort to re-center focus on diversity at Case Western Reserve University, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed legislation that serves to make diversity training mandatory...

UDC sparks student engagement

Anastazia Vanisko, Director of Print September 23, 2016

With early voting beginning in less than three weeks, the University Diversity Collaborative (UDC) will hold CWRU Votes Crawl on Sept. 27 from 1-4 p.m. as a way to provide an opportunity for students to...

Talk on microaggression echoes the spirit of Diversity 360

Shivalika Keni, Contributing Reporter September 16, 2016

In an effort to make Case Western Reserve University a more inclusive and diverse campus, the Division of Student Affairs, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, and...

Stroud: Future CWRU diversity lies in numbers of past

Austin Stroud January 29, 2016

Anyone who missed the MLK Convocation on Jan. 22 was absent for something truly inspirational. From the opening musical presentation by Case Western Reserve University’s gospel choir, Voices of Glory,...

Journalist Maria Hinojosa speaks at Power of Diversity lecture series

Anne Nickoloff, Director of Print October 8, 2015

Maria Hinojosa sat down on a table in the front of the room. “I’m sorry if I’m a little casual,” she said. “I like a smaller audience.” At the Oct. 6 Power of Diversity lecture series...

CWRU receives award for diversity

Kalli Schumacher, Contributing Reporter October 1, 2015

For the fourth consecutive year, Case Western Reserve University has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. Insight into Diversity, a national magazine dedicated to inclusion...

Letter to the Editor: Vice President Mobley and Vice President Stark in response to “Austin Stroud: CWRU fails to structurally understand diversity”

September 17, 2015

To the editor, A collaboration between the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity (OIDEO) and the Division of Student Affairs, Diversity 360 is a new campus-wide initiative designed to...

Claude Steele is an author, social psychologist and executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about combatting stereotypes is the common reading book for the fall of 2015.

“Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us” chosen as the 2015 common reading book

Julia Bianco, Director of Web and Multimedia April 20, 2015

Brent Staples whistled Vivaldi and other classical music as he walked down the streets of Chicago as a young African-American graduate student, hoping to combat the negative stereotypes that he saw on...

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