Give your input on the future of the Howard Thurman Center
Have ideas regarding what you want out of the Howard Thurman Center? What would you like out of the Center in the future?
Dean Elmore and Dean Moore (School of Theology) will be heading up listening sessions in February to hear your ideas. These sessions will be held Tuesday, February 2, 2016 from 6-7pm and Wednesday, February 17th from 5-6pm. Both will take place in the Howard Thurman Center (Garden/Basement Level, George Sherman Union.)
Can’t come to a listening session? Would you rather share your thoughts online? Feel free to give us your ideas.
Here’s the original announcement about the listening sessions and call for ideas that was sent out to the University community on January 26, 2016.
At the request of President Brown and Provost Morrison, we have the honor to lead a committee that will make recommendations to enhance diversity at BU. Our particular charge is to determine how we can build on and strengthen the capacities of the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground so that it can serve our community more broadly and visibly as we seek to promote understanding and develop leaders for a pluralistic and ever-changing world. We will propose (to President Brown and Provost Morrison) programs, staffing, sites, and strategies for an expanded and more visible Howard Thurman Center.
We are encouraged by many suggestions and offers of assistance from the Boston University community. We now offer the community a series of gatherings at which to share hopes and ideas. The committee has planned listening sessions: an invitation to reflect together on your ideas for making the Howard Thurman Center an ever more vigorous and visible leader in BU’s efforts to enhance diversity and deepen our engagement and mutual learning. We will hold sessions on:
- Tuesday, February 2, 2016, from 6-7pm, in the Howard Thurman Center
- Wednesday, February 17, 2016, from 5-6pm, in the Howard Thurman Center
Come prepared with your ideas for purposes, programs, and an ideal Howard Thurman Center location on the Charles River Campus. If you can not make a listening session, we hope you can take a moment to share your thoughts online. We need your guidance.
With best wishes,
Mary Elizabeth Moore
Dean, School of Theology
Kenneth Elmore
Associate Provost & Dean of Students