Friday, November 6, 1-5pm, Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, 154 W. 12th Ave.

This forum is inspired by the Elementary and Secondary Education and the Higher Education Acts of 1965 and their part in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Keynote speaker: Courtney Johnson, a teacher in the Columbus City Schools. The forum will focus on public education in our local community and in the state of Ohio. There will be breakout sessions on the classroom and points of resistance, the capital and courthouse (legal challenges and opportunities), community engagement, and the campus and student debt.

Students, faculty, staff, and community members are welcome to join in this discussion about educational equity and quality in Ohio; a reception will follow the forum.

Sponsored by the OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the OSU College of Social Work, the OSU Casto Professorship on Interprofessional Education, the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology’s Department of Teaching and Learning, and the Ohio Student Association.

Contact: Keith Kilty, kilty.1@osu.edu