{"id":32228,"date":"2021-05-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=32228"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:51:38","slug":"being-here-to-making-here-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/being-here-to-making-here-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arc From \u201cBeing Here\u201d to \u201cMaking \u2018Here\u2019 Home\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More black people, indigenous people, and people of color are choosing to attend K as students and work at K as faculty and staff. That\u2019s progress in diversity, or \u201cbeing here.\u201d More progress is required in equity and inclusion, or \u201cmaking \u2018here\u2019 home\u201d for all. Home is deep and complicated. K is shaping itself into a space conducive to in-and-out-of-the-box ideas and actions that extend the arc from \u201cbeing here\u201d to \u201cmaking \u2018here\u2019 home,\u201d a place that every member of the K community considers to be their own. In this K-Talk, four members of the community describe the multitude of projects\u2014a hard work as urgent as it is painstaking\u2014that constitutes the march to extend the arc. These four educator-activists are D\u2019Angelo Bailey \u201905, Karen Isble (Advancement), Regina Stevens-Truss (Chemistry), and Rhiki Swinton (Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership). What they describe is eye-opening (in terms of need and effect) and inspiring. And a good start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title='video' class='embed-responsive-item' title=\"KTalks: Diversity Equity and Inclusion\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/589910766?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" \"640\" \"360\" \"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More black people, indigenous people, and people of color are choosing to attend K as students and work at K as faculty and staff. That\u2019s progress in diversity, or \u201cbeing here.\u201d More progress is required in equity and inclusion, or \u201cmaking \u2018here\u2019 home\u201d for all. Home is deep and complicated. 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