


These workshops are engaging Northwest Arkansas leaders in dialog about integrity and race. As part of that effort, Walton College and the council are sponsoring eight workshops for 120 community leaders. The presentations during the semester-long program have been extended beyond the campus into the larger community in partnership with the Northwest Arkansas Council. Having the opportunity to be part of a larger discussion with Ijeoma Oluo about her book will be an exciting way to end our semester project on race.” “The persons in the discussions shared their honest experiences with other members of their cohort of faculty, staff, students and the community. “During the past five weeks, Ijeoma Oluo’s book has guided our discussions about race among faculty, staff, students and the community,” Lofton said. “Let’s Talk About Integrity and Race” has been organized and led by the Walton College’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and its director, Barbara Lofton, and the Business Integrity and Leadership Initiative, headed by Cindy Moehring, the initiative’s founder and executive director. To bring even more people in the state into the discussion about integrity and race, registration for Oluo’s talk is also being offered to anyone from four-year or two-year colleges and universities in the University of Arkansas System.

Attendance is limited and registration will be handled on a first-come basis.

The talk is being offered by the U of A and Northwest Arkansas Council to the larger community at no cost, but attendees must register by Friday, Oct. and will feature a live question-and-answer period. 10 via Zoom to an audience of University of Arkansas faculty, staff and students and community members from Northwest Arkansas as part of the semester-long Let’s Talk About Integrity and Race program by the Sam M. – Ijeoma Oluo, the New York Times bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race, will speak Nov.
