A Day of Unity

By CLAIRE WINTER

This past Friday, Beloit College celebrated its Day of Unity and hosted Dr. David Anderson Hooker for a facilitated workshop aimed at creating a narrative and shared future. This is the second Day of Unity that the college has hosted so far. 

The three-hour event included both breakout sessions with students and faculty, as well as group discussions and feedback about Beloit College as a whole. Students were invited to give their perspectives on what they feel the college is lacking in areas such as residential life and class curriculum. These issues were then deconstructed into wider issues that might impact the college’s ability to address them. Afterwards, students were asked to submit notes about what they feel the college is doing well with and what they enjoy about what the campus is currently supporting. 

Dr. Hooker also emphasized the importance of the work still to be done through these discussions about Beloit’s narratives and its future and framed it as an ongoing process. “The staff, the committees, will take all this information and figure out how to continue processing it so that by the fall we can have another convening…where we begin to talk about the ways in which you can think about adjusting relationships and resources and structures…so that you’re moving towards the preferred narrative that you’re looking for for Beloit.” 

While the concept of a “Day of Unity” is still reasonably new to Beloit, attendance was reportedly much higher than last year, with over a hundred students attending this year’s event. The anticipated date for next year’s day has yet to be announced. 

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