{"id":3227,"date":"2021-05-06T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:06:52","slug":"recast-faculty-graduation-speaker-vote-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2021\/05\/recast-faculty-graduation-speaker-vote-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Recast | Faculty graduation speaker vote results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From: <\/strong><\/a>“Williamson, Elizabeth” <williame@evergreen.edu>
Date: <\/strong>Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 9:57 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m happy to announce the\nresults of the vote for faculty graduation speaker. The majority of the votes\nwere cast for Laurie and Ruth\u2019s proposal (see below) and they have graciously\nagreed to honor students in a creative, innovative way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join me in thanking\nRuth, Laurie, and all the faculty members who were willing to take on this\ndifficult task (Dawn, Zolt\u00e1n, Eirik). I look forward to celebrating our\ngraduates with all of you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respectfully, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Elizabeth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I<\/em>n the spirit of team teaching, Ruth Hayes and Laurie Meeker\npropose to collaborate on a joint faculty graduation speech, addressing the\ncritical importance of representation in creating a more just and equitable\nsociety. As 20th century painter Paul Klee suggested, the arts, and artists, teach\nus how to see. They can represent for us what\u2019s outside of our own bubbles, and\nwhere to look for alternative ways forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remote zoom environment gives us the chance to pre-record\nour commentary and, as media faculty, we feel compelled to include images.\nWhile our talking heads will appear at times, we will also incorporate a\ncollage of quickly changing images showing themes explored through\nteam-teaching Mediaworks this year and expanded to include interdisciplinary\napproaches to problem solving. Students in our program learned that a lack of\nrepresentation is annihilation. They read and viewed works about the racist\ntreatment of Black people and Asian and Pacific Islanders, the objectification\nof women in mainstream media, discrimination against LGTBQ+ members of our\ncommunities, environmental injustices against communities of color, the massive\naccumulation of e-waste from all our digital devices, and the overall\ndegradation of our environment, including catastrophes resulting from climate\nchange. With our students permission, we will include short clips from the\nexperimental, animated, documentary, and essayistic works they\u2019ve created in\nresponse to these themes as we address them in our commentary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

—
\nElizabeth Williamson, Ph.D.
\n(pronouns: she\/her)
\nCurriculum and Faculty Hiring Dean
\nLibrary 2003
\nThe Evergreen State College  |  Olympia, WA  98505
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