Kegley Institute of Ethics

Congratulations to Wendy Wayne Ethics Awardee Nikolas Lopez. Nikolas Lopez is a studeny at Bakersfield College. Nikolas has been a Boy Scout since the age of 6 and, in this role, has organized Bakersfield park improvement projects and serves as an astronomy guide and teacher at the Boy Scout summer camp. Nikolas is kind hearted and a strong leader who is not afraid to step forward to make a positive impact in the lives of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eE8z7fsrZ8

Join KIE in partnership with the CSUB Center for Career Education and Community Engagement for: "NextTech: From the Central Valley to Silicon Valley. TONIGHT at 5:00 p.m. PST and will feature a panel discussion with four young professionals of color (from and/or educated in the Central Valley) who now work at major tech companies, including Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Crave It. This event is free and open to the public https://csub.zoom.us/j/88253655957

Join the Kegley Institute of Ethics and CSUB Campus Programming on April 14th at 6:00 P.M. PST via Zoom for the 34th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture, featuring Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Dr. Kendi's lecture is titled "How To Be an Antiracist." Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. https://csub.zoom.us/j/82440309975

Congratulations to Wendy Wayne Ethics Awardee Samantha De LaCruz. As a CSUB student and President of CSUB’s Club GEN (Gender Equality Now!), her primary areas of activism, organizing, and research involve advocating for the needs of women and girls living in poverty and trans-identified youth. Samantha has led efforts to establish a Trans Awareness Week, opened Jai’s Library (a resource for gender non-conforming students named in honor of Jai Bornstein, a former Club GEN member who took her own life), and formed a campus-wide committee focused on creating institutional policies and practices that support gender non-conforming students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dB-Tn8C20

Congratulations to Wendy Wayne Ethics Awardee L. Dee Slade. L. Dee Slade is an inspiring leader and a continuing advocate for positive change in Kern County. She is Director for the African-American Network of Kern County (AANKC), a Business and Professional organization which promotes higher learning by creating educational programs designed to empower the next generations to be strong leaders in business and community development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIujlhWxA2E

Great promise but potential for peril. Christina Pazzanese writes for The Harvard Gazette on Artifical Intelligence, "With virtually no U.S. government oversight, private companies use AI software to make determinations about health and medicine, employment, creditworthiness, and even criminal justice without having to answer for how they’re ensuring that programs aren’t encoded, consciously or unconsciously, with structural biases." https://news.harvard.edu//ethical-concerns-mount-as-ai-ta/

KIE 2020-2021 Faculty Fellow and CSUB Professor of Theatre, Mandy Rees, writes on the Theatre of the Oppressed and the groundbreaking work of Augusto Boal to use theatre to engage audiences in imagining and practicing actions to overcome oppression. Professor Rees will introduce some of these techniques in her classes at CSUB. https://www.cs.csubak.edu//on-the-theatre-of-the-oppressed/

Join Dr. Kallee Mccullough, assistant director of KIE and assistant professor of Criminal Justice TONIGHT at 6:00PM PST for "Life and Death in Prison." The focus of this talk for the CSUB Quality of Life Center is on the state's ultimate sanctions: life Imprisonment and the death penalty. Prison conditions and current controversies will be explored. This event is free and open to the public. https://csub.zoom.us/j/85640398127

Join Dr. Kallee McCullough, assistant director of KIE and assistant professor of Criminal Justice on Monday, April 12th at 6:00PM PST for "Life and Death in Prison." The focus of this talk for the CSUB Quality of Life Center is on the state's ultimate sanctions: life Imprisonment and the death penalty. Prison conditions and current controversies will be explored. This event is free and open to the public! https://csub.zoom.us/j/85640398127

Everyone 16 years and older including CSUB students are now eligible to get vaccinated at #CSUB. Make an appointment at myturn.ca.gov/ or walk in without one. We are open 7 days a week 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the @CSUB Student Recreation Center. We encourage everyone who meets current criteria to get vaccinated. Don’t wait, vaccinate. Enter campus from Don Hart Drive East. Bring a photo ID. If you’re under 18, bring a guardian. Free, fast, easy, safe. ... @Kaiser Permanente Kern County @AHBakersfield @MemorialHospitalBakersfield @MercyHospitalSouthwestBakersfield @MercyHospitalDowntownBakersfield

A quote from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Antiracist. In his book, Dr. Kendi discusses concepts of racism and his proposals for anti-racist individual actions and systemic changes. Don’t forget to join us and Dr. Kendi April 14th at 6:00 P.M. via zoom for the 34th Annual Charles W. Kegley Memorial Lecture.