Briefs for January 20, 2003

Blackboard informational presentations scheduled
Continuing Education and ITS have organized a free presentation designed for BGSU faculty and staff to learn about Blackboard. The focus will be on demonstrating how students and other members of the community are now using Blackboard.
For answers to your questions, visit http://ctc.bgsu.edu/bb.htm or call Continuing Education at 2-8181.

Panel to look at immigrants’ civil rights
The University Libraries’ Multicultural Affairs Committee will hold a panel discussion titled “Do Immigrants Have Civil Rights?” in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event is part of the
Issues in Cultural Diversity Series.
The program will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday (Jan. 22) in the Pallister Conference Room in Jerome Library.
Five panelists will take part in the discussion. They include: Susan Goldstein of University Libraries, Mark B. Hansen of the Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Cleveland, Carol Jenifer of the INS Detroit office, Loretta Lopez-Mossman of the Detroit Border Patrol Sector and John Shousher of the International Institute of Toledo.
Diane Regan, Equity, Diversity and Immigration Services, will moderate the discussion.
Among the issues to be discussed are: what civil rights immigrants have, myths surrounding those rights, whether these civil rights are different from those of native or naturalized citizens, what rights are specific to racial profiling and detention, and what civil rights are specific to amnesty and labor issues.