{"id":2131,"date":"1990-12-21T05:06:10","date_gmt":"1990-12-21T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:41:24","slug":"professor-dunn-offers-to-form-task-force-with-black-students-alliance-bsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1990\/12\/21\/professor-dunn-offers-to-form-task-force-with-black-students-alliance-bsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Dunn offers to form task force with Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December 21, 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Dunn offers to form task force with Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a memo directly to the members of the Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA), President Dunn said she would ask Assistant Dean of Minority Affairs Marjorie Richardson and Dean of the College Ann Burger to form a task force in January to recommend policy changes. This was to address the concerns the BSA had expressed about racial harassment at Smith. The task force would be comprised of members of the BSA and Smith faculty and would seek to determine what policies Smith students wanted to implement.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Union-News (Springfield) article on the proposed task force can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1990.12.22.-Smith-seeks-blacks-aid-to-fight-bias.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 21, 1990 Professor Dunn offers to form task force with Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,54,84,58],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-102","tag-black-students-alliance","tag-institutional-action","tag-student-demands","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}