Events

Are you eager to explore the vibrant community and enriching opportunities offered by CGU’s School of Educational Studies (SES)? Look no further! We invite you to be a part of our upcoming Magic Monday in-person event on Monday, April 22nd.

But what exactly is a Magic Monday, you might wonder? It’s an extraordinary day each month when SES students, alumni, staff, and faculty come together on campus for community building and personal enrichment.

Here’s a glimpse of the schedule:

4:00 – 5:00 pm: On-Campus Office Hours with SES Staff and Faculty
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to connect with our esteemed faculty and staff members to learn more about our master’s and doctoral programs. If there’s a specific faculty member you’d like to meet, please reach out to your admissions representative, Carina Navarro, at carina.navarro@cgu.edu.

5:15 – 6:45 pm. Enrichment activity (speaker, panel, workshop, etc.)
Location: Albrecht Auditorium in Stauffer Hall (925 North Dartmouth Ave. Red brick building on corner of 10th and Dartmouth Ave.)

Faculty showcase & book reveal featuring Linda M. Perkins and her new publication, To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s.

From the United States’ earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins’s study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women’s post–Civil War experiences at elite white schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states. Their presence in Black institutions like Howard University marked another advancement, as did Black women becoming professors and administrators. But such progress intersected with race and education in the postwar era. As gender questions sparked conflict between educated Black women and Black men, it forced the former to contend with traditional notions of women’s roles even as the 1960s opened educational opportunities for all African Americans.

A first of its kind history, To Advance the Race is an enlightening look at African American women and their multi-generational commitment to the ideal of education as a collective achievement.

Hope to see you there!