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WIU College Student Personnel to Host Lecture Series

February 5, 2021

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MACOMB, IL - - As part of the Western Illinois University College Student Personnel Lecture Series, Vanessa Sansone will present "Geography Need Not Be Destiny" at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb.16.

Sansone, of the University of Texas-San Antonio, will present her lecture, "Geography need not be destiny: What we can learn about race, place, and college opportunity from rural Latinxs in Texas," which is co-sponsored by the WIU Multicultural Center, virtually (https://wiu.zoom.us/j/5227760369).

Sansone will discuss her empirical research on rural Latinxs and college access, highlighting how mechanisms such as proximity and racialized history influence rural students' (in)equity of college opportunity.

A second lecture, "Viewing student success through a datafied lens: How data are shaping postsecondary possibilities, assumptions, and (in)equities," given by Carrie Klein (senior fellow, Future of Privacy Forum & Affiliate Faculty, George Mason University), will be held at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 23 via Zoom (https://wiu.zoom.us/j/5227760369).

Klein will talk about how data are increasingly being used in higher education to inform student success outcomes. In this lecture, she will discuss how assumptions about data are shaping university priorities and the ways in which data can be both a lever and roadblock toward improving equity. Klein will also talk about the importance of data justice as a cornerstone to fostering appropriate university use of data and student agency over their information.

For more information on WIU's CSP program, visit wiu.edu/csp.

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