Location: DH-122 Qside Lounge in the Dining Hall
Time: 1:00-2:15 PM

Show your QC pride! Celebrate Q-UNITY Day by wearing your favorite Queens College apparel. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to participate.

Location: QSide – Dinning Hall 122
Time: 12:15 – 1:30PM

Speakers: MJAC New York Co-Chairs Bahman Farahdel and Yawar Shah; Dr. Ari Gordon, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations; Natalia Mahmud, Program Director, Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council

The dialogue will answer the following questions:

(1) What are the principles of interfaith dialogue?
(2) What are ways different faith groups can come together?
(3) Why is interfaith dialogue important today?

Location: QSide – Dinning Hall 122
Time: 2:00 – 3:30PM

We are pleased to announce the launch of CUNY’s 2025–2026 Mandatory Understanding Title VI In-Person Training, presented by Kareem J. Peat, Executive Director of the Center for Inclusivity & Equal Opportunity at The City University of New York, and Lisa Khandhar, Esq., Deputy Director of Compliance and Policy. All full-time employees and full-time faculty are required to complete this training annually.

Location: LeFrak Concert Hall and the Music Building Atrium
Time: 9:00 – 3:00PM

This year’s Diversity Conference, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, guides the program and its objectives. Diversity Week at Queens College provides an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to reflect on our shared humanity, engage in community-building conversations and activities, and celebrate both our differences and similarities. The culminating event will be a daylong conference bringing together DEI practitioners, leaders, and stakeholders from Queens College, neighboring higher education institutions across the borough of Queens, as well as community and industry partners. The conference

will offer an in-depth exploration of the legal landscape surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education, highlight its significant achievements, and examine future directions for DEI initiatives on college campuses. Attendees will also participate in discussions on advancing DEI leadership as a research-driven community of practice, fostering collaboration, support, and sustained progress in this critical area.

Location: Lefrak Concert Hall
Time: 12:00 – 1:30PM (During Conference Lunch)

Presented by Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU) and the Office of Compliance & Diversity, the Social Identity Fashion Show will showcase the ways students powerfully rewrite narratives and creatively present social identities, culture, and heritage (i.e., race, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, etc.) through fashion, combating perceived/stereotyped social identities

Location: LeFrak Concert Hall and the Music Building Atrium
Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM

Implicit bias does not announce itself. It lives in how we define merit, whose labor we decide to count and recognize, who receives the sponsorship that turns potential into opportunity, and who is handed the work of making institutions feel legitimate; without ever being invited to shape them. What if the very people doing the most essential, life-changing work in our communities are also the ones most likely to be overlooked, overloaded, and invisibilized by the very systems designed to measure their excellence and progress?

This fireside chat goes there, boldly and without apology. We are talking about the hidden architecture of labor that sustains our society: the mentoring and sponsorship relationships that open doors for some while remaining out of reach for others. We examine and discuss the emotional and intellectual weight carried by racialized and marginalized people across every sector who show up every single day navigating institutions, structures and systems that were not originally built with them in mind.

Access without belonging is a more sophisticated form of exclusion. It closes off the pathways to advancement and social mobility that our schools, workplaces, and civic life promise everyone but do not deliver equitably.

This interactive and engaging session moves from naming the burden to the action of intentionally redesigning oppressive structures, because the future of our communities depends on whether the people who conceptualized them and are holding them together can actually thrive within them.

Location: The Summit – James Muyskens Conference Center
Time: 2:00 – 3:00PM

This year SEEK celebrates 60 years. Queens College is home to one of three oldest opportunity programs in the nation. This milestone signifies sixty years of real, lasting, transformative educational change. Come celebrate SEEK’s 60th anniversary with cake, community, and a whole lot of SEEK pride. From its very beginning, SEEK did more than support a population of students. SEEK challenged CUNY as an institution to listen, adapt, and evolve. Through the push for innovative curricular changes, inclusivity that reflected New York’s diverse population, SEEK reshaped how the university understood and responded to student needs. SEEK proved that when institutions embrace the full humanity of their students, education becomes even more powerful. SEEK’s influence helped move CUNY from a one-size-fits-all model toward a more the creation of similar models that modeled SEEK’s responsive, student-centered approach.

Whether you’re a current student, an alum, faculty, or a friend of the program, you are welcome to come raise a fork and toast to 60 incredible years of opportunity, access, and change.

Location: Online  
Time: 12:00 – 1:30PM

What is disability justice? Why is it important? What does bodily autonomy have to do with it? Join us for a discussion on disability, bodily autonomy, and consent. We’ll talk about disability models, care networks, and more. Presented by SAVI.

Location:

• Event can be attended in-person or online
• Register here: In-Person:RSVP | Online: Zoom
• In-Person Location: CUNY Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, Suite 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
• For more information: https://aaari.info/26-05-01le-nguyen/

Time: 6:00 – 7:30PM

Prof. Khánh Lê (Queens College) and Prof. Alisha Nguyen (Lesley University) will present on their research exploring the history, development, and impact of Vietnamese dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs in five U.S. states with significant Vietnamese populations. Using a multiple-case study approach, this project examined how these programs support heritage language preservation and the raciolinguistic identity development of Vietnamese students, particularly in the context of refugee resettlement after the Vietnam War. The study also addresses the gap in scholarship on Vietnamese American education, language, and cultural integration in the U.S. education system. This project was funded by the 2025 AAARI CUNY Faculty Research Support Program.