On January 18, we had the privilege of hosting Lou Radja as Excelsior University’s, the Center for Social Justice’s and the Race & Ethnicity Rope Team’s MLK Day celebration keynote speaker. Lou powerfully focused on Dr. King’s call for our participation and leadership of our “beloved community”, where we see each other’s humanity, where we mutually assume complexity in each other’s journey, where we invest selflessly in supporting each other, meeting each other where each of us is, where we co-experience “ubuntu: I am because we are.”
At Excelsior, an exciting way in which we are attempting to respond to Dr. King’s call is through our facilitation of identity/allyship and career communities or “rope teams”, where we are involving all members of our internal and external community in “ubuntu,” creating a village around our students and alums, based on who they are and what matters to them, to scaffold their development and success as members of our next generation of leaders. Check out our identity/allyship and career communities at https://communities.excelsior.edu and participate in the rope team(s) that matter(s) to you, in the way that excites and is sustainable to you. Let’s join efforts to experience and facilitate “ubuntu” together.
We are looking forward to collaborating with you!
