Join us for our fifth Book Tasting event on Thursday, February 15th from 4-5pm! These are a time for us to come together as a community as a different person each month reads an excerpt from a different book and facilitates discussions around it. This month Lindsay Smart, Associate Vice Chancellor for Leadership and Faculty Equity & Inclusion, will be reading from Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James. As the University celebrates Black History Month discussions around stories like this are extremely important in order to better connect with the reality that history is living.
In this event we will be engaging with selections from Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School while also considering the psychological costs to diverse students who enter environments in which they are perhaps “the only one”, constantly confronting their “innate otherness” in higher education spaces.
As an institution that is involved in the regular process of admitting health professions students, this book will lead us to considering the difference between being admitted vs being accepted and whether it is enough to be admitted into a higher education space if acceptance doesn’t follow. More information on this and past Book Tastings can be found on your Research Guide.
This is an online event and registration is required. If you have any questions please reach out to Kelleen Maluski. You can also find more Black History Month events and information on the UNM HSC Black History Month page.