{"id":438,"date":"2019-11-13T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/?p=438"},"modified":"2019-11-14T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:38:32","slug":"ruby-jones-conference-race-social-justice-and-civic-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/event-list\/ruby-jones-conference-race-social-justice-and-civic-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Jones Conference: Race, Social Justice, and Civic  Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Keynote Speaker DR. CRYSTAL FLEMING <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">The goal of this conference is to create an educational environment where students can engage in learning that will raise awareness and promote action-oriented dialogue about racial, cultural and social issues that impact how students experience life on campus, in communities and in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ruby-689x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ruby-689x1024.png 689w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ruby-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ruby-768x1141.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>RUBY JONES<\/strong> completed the Bachelor Program in teaching at West Chester State College. In 1961, she was the first Black faculty hired at West Chester State College in 1961. Professor Jones was a K-12 educator prior to becoming a professor at WCU. She was actively involved with the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People <br> (NAACP), the YWCA, the American Association of University Women and the National Association of Colored Women&#8217;s Club. She was also an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated and Phi Delta Kappa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Dowdy Multicultural Center, Sykes Student Union, Room 003, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19382 <a href=\"multiculture@wcupa.edu\">multiculture@wcupa.edu<\/a> I 810-438-3273 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote Speaker DR. CRYSTAL FLEMING The goal of this conference is to create an educational environment where students can engage in learning that will raise awareness and promote action-oriented dialogue about racial, cultural and social issues that impact how students experience life on campus, in communities and in society. RUBY JONES completed the Bachelor Program<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/event-list\/ruby-jones-conference-race-social-justice-and-civic-leadership\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-list","category-sykes-student-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/WCUStoneTablet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}