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The Arts & Ideas Series continues this spring with an exciting lineup of events in the Courage & Resilience Series. Mark your calendars accordingly!

Full descriptions of every event can be found here

Solidarity Keeps Us Alive: Collective Struggles and Incarcerated Women in Turkey and the US
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at 4:30 PM in Ecumenical Center

The Arthur Nolletti, Jr. Film Series: Till
Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 4:30 PM, at DPAC

Lisa Iglesias: Chivalry Timbers
Reception in the Mazmanian Gallery Tuesday, February 27 at 2:30 PM
Lecture in the Forum, McCarthy Center, Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Zoom Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvf-GpqD8uHtcJ4Utn_6mr7WAySIsBzCgC

Big Ink for Big Hearts
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6, 2024
The Forum for the two days of workshop

The Linda Vaden-Goad Authors and Artists Series: Katherine Scheidler & Marcus Greene
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 4:30 PM in Heineman Ecumenical Center
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdeCpqDIrHtIOiszZO0VKD7NSFNqWa8he

Creating Between Two Worlds: Contemporary Artistic Diasporas
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 4:30 PM in Alumni Room
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkduuprToqHNQMw2j16RkuHx48M_0P084c

Challenges Overcome Campaign, in Fall and Spring semester, 2023-2024
Ending Ceremony on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 4:30 PM in Alumni Room (Hybrid)
Campaign Leader: Sabrina Grammatic
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApc-2rrDkiHtAljHCEKKWfQiexH1-HSl6s

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
4:30PM | DWIGHT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (DPAC)
Film Screening, Chinonye Chukwu’s ‘Till’
Mamie Till-Bradley’s fight for justice after her son Emmitt’s heinous murder sparks a movement.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
10:45AM | BOSTON, MA
Black History Month Freedom Trail Tour
Learn about African Americans who played vital roles in the American Revolution.
Register Here

JANUARY 2 — FEBRUARY 29, 2024
HENRY WHITTEMORE LIBRARY, FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY
Exhibits highlighting Civil Rights accomplishments and events in Massachusetts and beyond, spearheaded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Dr. Betty Shabazz, and others.

Spring 2024 Campus Sustainability Events & Activities:

• Join the Green Initiative (or encourage your students to do so)! Students interested in sustainability, climate justice issues, and/or community gardening are invited to join the Green Initiative Club on Ramlink
  
  
• Monthly Campus Sustainability Meetings on Zoom:
  • Monday Feb 12th at 1:30pm
  • Monday March 11th at 1:30pm
  • Friday April 19th at 2:30pm
    
    
• Diversify Your Relationship with Fashion - Campus Sustainability is teaming up with the Fashion Department to offer an exciting series of events that will help us re-think our relationship to fashion.
  • Design Competition – Designers are challenged to create new original garments, sculptures, paintings, or art-pieces from damaged luxury goods. Winners of the competition will receive prizes as well as have their work displayed at the annual FSU student fashion show. Check out the dates below and attached flyers to learn more.
    • Thursday, February 1st from 12:30-1:30pm in Hemenway Hall 218– Info Session for students to learn more about the design competition
    • Wednesday, February 21st – Round 1 Deadline to Submit Design Concepts via Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HhWM-9lrQacriR5Inn4-Jbx0X9Xtz8CeW6ecvZXHGwk/viewform?ts=65a934a0&edit_requested=true
    • March 4th – 8th, Finalists Create their Upcycled Designs, Hemenway Hall sewing labs (HH202, HH206).
  • Lunch and Panel Discussion – join us to hear from three professionals each involved in a different area of sustainable fashion – upcycling, recycling, and resale.
    • • Thursday, March 7th at 12pm in the McCarthy Center Forum
        
        
• Climate Justice Teach-in - “Turning from Climate Despair to Climate Repair”
  • April 1 – 8, in classrooms throughout FSU
  • Faculty and staff – please sign up here if you’re interested in participating: https://framingham.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLJya769pO9bDcq
    
    
• Climate Hope Concert, hosted by Christa McAuliffe Center
  • Saturday, April 20th, time and location TBD
    
    
• Earth Week Celebration
  • April 22-26, 2024
  • Event dates and times TBD but will include a campus and community garden clean-up, tabling and plant-based food in the Dining Commons, and the Framingham Earth Day Festival
    
    
• Science on State Street at Framingham State University
  • Saturday, April 27th, time TBD

The 2024-2025 FAFSA is now available. Because of the changes to the new form, the FAFSA was launched at the end of December (3 months later than the normal October 1 release date). The Financial Aid Staff are offering FAFSA Days to assist students with FAFSA completion so they can meet our priority deadline of March 1:

February 1, 2024
10:00am-Noon in the Commuter Lounge, McCarthy Student Center

February 8, 2024
2-4pm in CASA

February 15, 2024
10am-Noon in the Hemenway Computer Lab, Room 122

February 22, 2024
4-6pm in the Commuter Lounge, McCarthy Student Center

February 29, 2024
2-4pm in CASA

No appointment is necessary. Students should bring their StudentAid.gov log in information. If they are a dependent student they will also need the following information for their parent in order to invite them to be a contributor on the FASFA:

• Legal name (from their Social Security Card)
• Date of birth
• Social Security Number if they have one or mailing address if they don't have an SSN
• Email address

Contact the Financial Aid Office at 508-626-4534 or financialaid@framingham.edu with questions.

February 14, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.
Forum, McCarthy Center

Sarah Levecque is a songwriter, guitarist who moves easily between the sturdy roots of American music. Influenced in equal parts by early blues, country, folk, and rock music.

Below are important dates this Spring as FSU enrolls its incoming class for Fall 2024!

March 9th, 2024 from 9am-2pm – Spring Open House
April 6th, 2024 from 10am-2pm – Rams Rising: An Accepted Student Event
April 13th, 2024 from 10am-2pm – Rams Rising: An Accepted Student Event