<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><div>In the CaMP virtual reading group, w<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">e will be chatting with Bonnie Uricuoli tomorrow, engaging with her new book,  Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life. She has asked us to read chapter 1.  Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything. </span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reading can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/goog_1132504611"><br></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2kdv8k3o96otvg/Urciuoli%20Neoliberalizing%20Diversity%20%282022%29%20front%20matter%20and%20introduction.pdf?dl=0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2kdv8k3o96otvg/Urciuoli%20Neoliberalizing%20Diversity%20%282022%29%20front%20matter%20and%20introduction.pdf?dl=0</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, February 25th, and can be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(14,113,235);box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing many of you virtually,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ilana</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Press blurb: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Trebuchet MS",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">As neoliberalism has expanded from corporations to higher education, the notion of “diversity” is increasingly seen as the contribution of individuals to an organization. By focusing on one liberal arts college, author Bonnie Urciuoli shows how schools market themselves as “diverse” communities to which all members contribute. She explores how students of color are recruited, how their lives are institutionally organized, and how they provide the faces, numbers, and stories that represent schools as diverse. In doing so, she finds that unlike students’ routine experiences of racism or other social differences, neoliberal diversity is mainly about improving schools’ images.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div>