Academic freedom, Chicana feminism and aviation policy are three topics that the Metro community can learn more about this week.

Academic Freedom
The Office of Student Life presents a panel discussion today, March 16, on academic freedom and what the term really means. The moderator is Metro political science Professor Norman Provizer and the panelists include:

• Amy Eckert, visiting instructor in Metro's Political Science Department
• Dolph Grundman, professor of history and director of Metro's Honors Program
• Marc Rabinoff, chair of Metro's Human Performance, Sport and Leisure Studies Department
• Gabriel Kaplan, assistant professor in UCDHSC's Graduate School of Public Affairs
• Candice Shelby, associate professor in UCDHSC's Department of Philosophy

The panel discussion will be held at 1 p.m. in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

For additional information about academic freedom go to http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/1940stat.htm

Blackwell to speak on Chicana feminism
The campus community is invited to hear activist scholar Maylei Blackwell speak on
"Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Oral History, and Chicana Feminist Praxis" at 10 a.m. on March 17 in TIV 320A.

Blackwell is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research and teaching examines how racial and sexual differences shape the challenges and possibilities of transnational organizing in the Americas by focusing on how women of color in the U.S. and indigenous women in Mexico organize to resist the conditions created by globalization.

Blackwell's lecture is sponsored by Metro's Department of Chicano/a Studies and two student groups: Conscious Journey and Los Herederos of Change and Esperanza.

For more information call 303-556-3147.

Student Travel Program presents discussion on aviation policy
A student delegation attended the National Formulation of Aviation Policy conference in Washington, D.C. in January and will report about the conference to the campus community on Wednesday, March 16, noon-1 p.m. in TIV 320A. The discussion will focus on the latest developments in aviation policy at the national level, including: flight training restrictions for non-U.S. citizens, air traffic controller staffing needs, cargo security and air carrier taxes.

Refreshments will be provided by the Student Travel Program, which sponsored the students' attendance at the conference.