Mansfield University Home PageFEBRUARY
Black History Month
African American Heritage Week *** February 7 – 13 (2nd Week)
History Week” February 12, 1926. He chose the second week of February because
it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and
February 20, 1895). Woodson also founded the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History, now the Association for the Study of African American Life and
History.
February 8 Poetry in Motion: Paul Laurence Dunbar &
CANCELLED Langston Hughes In song
Dr. Sebronette Barnes, soprano
7:00 pm – Steadman Theatre
Admission: Free
February 12-13 PALOMA Social Justice Retreat
Altoona, PA (Details TBA)
Chinese New Year 2010 – Year of the Tiger (February 13)
Chinese New Year (Chinese: 春節, 春节, Chūnjíe; 農曆新年, 农历新年,
Nónglì Xīnnián; or 過年, 过年, Guònián), also known as the Lunar New Year
or the Spring Festival is most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.
It consists of a period of celebTigerions, starting on New Year's Day, celebTigered
on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar. The Chinese New Year
period ends with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the month.
February TBA Diversity Jeopardy Contest
All organizations invited to forms teams to participate.
Registration Fee: TDA
February 18 Movie: Malcolm X
Political Science Club
6:00 pm – Alumni Hall 307
February 21 Open Mic: Black Poetry and Artistic Expressions
Sponsored by: Men for Progress, Black Students Union, Sisters
Supporting Sisters, and Multicultural Affairs
February TBA Diversity Forum on Prejudice
Mansfield Activities Council
TBA
February 28 Sisters Supporting Sisters
Dinner and discussion
3:00 – 6:00 pm (off campus)
MARCH
Women’s History Month
March 2 Langston Hughes Project – Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy
Jazz Montage: A Multimedia Concert Performance of
Langston Hughes’s – Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz
March TBA International Women of Color Tribute
March 5-7 Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania
Black Conference on Higher Education
Loews Hotel in Philadelphia
March 8-12 Spring Break
March 16 Tales from Ancient China
Storyteller, Linda Fang
7:00 p.m. – Alumni Hall, Room 307
Free and open to the public
Diversity Week -- March
The purpose of this week is to provide shared learning opportunities
designed to increase awareness, acquire knowledge, and develop
competencies that will strengthen our campus community. Also to
broaden our understanding of diversity, and promote multicultural
sensitivity. By diversity we mean to be inclusive of cultural, ethnic,
and racial identity; national origin; language; gender; sexual and
affectional identity; age; disability; religion; socio-economic status;
and other group distinctions. (Usually held the first week of October)