April 19, 2002
Students’ Grassroots Organizing Group meets with administrators
Leaders from the Students’ Grassroots Organizing Group met with administrators at 8 a.m. to discuss and clarify their demands and plan how the campus should move forward regarding race. The administrators present were acting President John Connolly, Provost Susan Bourque, Dean of the College Maureen Mahoney, and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen, among others. The meeting lasted two hours and both sides agreed that it was a productive discussion, although they were not yet able to arrive at a concrete solution. Similar meetings between the group and the administration took place on April 22nd and April 26th.
The full Sophian article with details on the meeting can be found here.
The Smith College timeline of these events can be found here (1, 2).
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