A gay man active in the Human Rights Campaign and a woman lawyer from the Ohio Attorney General's Office discussed discrimination and implicit bias during a forum at the law college on Tuesday.
Susan Sharkey, senior assistant attorney general of the civil rights section of the Ohio AG Office, told of cases involving discrimination, how the cases were resolved, and what the results of the ceases mean for other disputes going forward. As a side note, her boss, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, received his law degree from ONU.
Ada area taxpayers can receive free income tax assistance from ONU business students through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), if your income is below $54,000.
The service is available from 5-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at the business college.
The public relations program at Ohio Northern won an honorable mention and $500 in the global Peer to Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism campaign during the 2016-17 academic year. Hosted by EdVenture Partners, Facebook and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, participants of the P2P program were asked to develop a campaign challenging Islamophobia.
Daniel Walker (left), president of Kokosing Industrial in Westerville, and Charles Leader, founder of Leader Fabricating in Napoleon, are this year's recipients of distinguished alumni awards from the engineering college. Kokosing is one of the largest contractors in the Midwest with annual sales of $1 billion. Walker is vice chair of the ONU board of trustees. Leader, who grew up on a farm in McComb, holds several patents. His company designs solutions and machines for companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia
FROM ONU WEBSITE - It’s repeating the answer to an elderly patient’s question one more time. It’s reassuring a nervous child before giving a flu shot. It’s teaching a patient how to use his epi-pen to possibly save his life one day. Pharmacy is all of these things, but most of all, it’s personal.
To many, interactions such as these may seem perfectly ordinary, but for fifth-year ONU pharmacy student Heather Shaffer, they are the reasons she wants to be a pharmacist.
"Discrimination and implicit bias: An exploration of unconscious bias and remedies provided by the law” will be the topic of a forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the law college. The program is free and open to the public.
This presentation will detail the current body of law in the state of Ohio regarding sexual harassment, gender stereotyping, gender identity and retaliation. It will cover legal remedies and tools that are available for groups and individuals who are and have been systematically subjected to discrimination. The program will feature two speakers.
