{"id":136792,"date":"2022-03-18T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=136792"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:42:53","slug":"uccs-community-invited-to-martin-luther-king-jr-day-of-service-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=136792","title":{"rendered":"UCCS community invited to 2022 Days of Service and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action-741x417.jpg 741w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Digital-Poster-UCCS-Service-and-Action.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone can be great because everybody can serve,\u201d spoke Martin Luther King, Jr. in a call to service. The UCCS community can answer that call during the UCCS Days of Service and Action, a week-long series of events to be held from Apr. 23\u201329, 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UCCS Days of Service and Action are inspired by the federal holiday in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and are a way for UCCS to invest in the health and harmony of its community. Participants can volunteer for&nbsp;service&nbsp;projects that connect to the broader Colorado Springs community&nbsp;and participate in educational&nbsp;workshops focused on activism, advocacy and King&#8217;s teachings. The Days of Service and Action have been rescheduled from January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Events throughout the week are free and open to all UCCS students, staff, faculty, alumni, and affiliated friends and family. To receive reminders for upcoming events and workshops, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlc.uccs.edu\/event\/7916756\">RSVP for the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Event Schedule (subject to change)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Saturday, April 23: <\/strong>Day of Service with UCCS<em>lead<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Monday, April 25:<\/strong> Day of Action with a community dialogue hosted by the UCCS Student Government Association and a story time from Lil Miss Story Hour (for the Family Development Center)<\/li><li><strong>Tuesday, April 26: <\/strong>Day of Action with a lunch workshop hosted by the Matrix Center<\/li><li><strong>Wednesday, April 27:<\/strong> Day of Action with a workshop hosted by the MOSAIC and LGBTQ+ Resource Center<\/li><li><strong>Thursday, April 28: <\/strong>Day of Action with an open mic event from Poetry 719 and a workshop hosted by the MOSAIC and LGBTQ+ Resource Center<\/li><li><strong>Friday, April 29:<\/strong> Keynote Breakfast, service projects with the Office of Sustainability, and a film discussion with the Women in Cybersecurity UCCS Student Chapter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kraemer Family Library will also be hosting a book display of texts relevant to to King&#8217;s work and themes of social and environmental justice at the Circulation Desk on the third floor throughout the week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sponsors and event partners include the <meta charset=\"utf-8\">Multicultural Office for Student Access, Inclusiveness, and Community (MOSAIC), the Faculty Minority Affairs Committee, the Department of Student Life, LIVE Leadership, UCCSlead, the Chancellor&#8217;s Leadership Class, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Office of Sustainability, University Advancement and the Office of Alumni Relations and the Annual Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:mosaic@uccs.edu\">Questions can be sent to MOSAIC<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cEveryone can be great because everybody can serve,\u201d spoke Martin Luther King, Jr. in a call to service. During the week-long UCCS Days of Service and Action, all are invited to invest in the health and harmony of the university and surrounding communities. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=136792\" title=\"UCCS community invited to 2022 Days of Service and Action\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":138255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49,12,14],"tags":[331,379,332],"class_list":["post-136792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","category-events","category-upcoming-events","tag-campus-announcements","tag-dei","tag-more-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Communique-Featured-Image-1400-x-1052-px-double-size-34.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-zAk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136792"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138257,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792\/revisions\/138257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}