Fisk University

Registration for Spring 2023 Semester
2022-10-07 08:00 - 2022-11-05 17:00 UTC | TN

Fall Break
2022-10-10 08:00 - 2022-10-11 17:00 | TN
No classes. university closed.

Senior Exit/Major Field Examination Period
2022-10-17 08:00 - 2022-11-04 17:00 | TN
Students should check with their Department Chairs for information on exact dates.

Last day to Drop course with a grade of WP/WF
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 | TN
The last day to drop a course with a grade of WP (Withdrawn Passing) or WF (Withdrawn Failing)

Last day for student to file for degree for May 2023 Commencement and December 2022 completion date
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 | TN

Homecoming Week
2022-11-06 08:00 - 2022-11-12 17:00 | TN

Last day to submit work for completion of "I" grade from the Previous Semester
2022-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 | TN
Last day to submit work for completion of “I”(Incomplete) grade from the previous semester.

Click here to read the full Incomplete Grade Policy

Decembermester Registration Dates (Online Classes Only)
2022-11-07 08:00 - 2022-11-19 17:00 | TN

Thanksgiving Recess
2022-11-23 08:00 - 2022-11-25 17:00 | TN
University closed for students, faculty, staff, and administrators.

Last day of Instruction
2022-11-29 08:00 - 17:00 | TN

Final Examination Period
2022-11-30 08:00 - 2022-12-06 17:00 | TN
Final Examination Period for all Registered students.

Living-Learning Centers Close
2022-12-07 08:00 - 17:00 | TN
Living-Learning Centers Closed at 5:00; Cafeteria after lunch.

Decembermester Begins (Online Courses Only)
2022-12-12 08:00 - 2022-12-29 17:00 | TN

Winter Holiday Break
2022-12-12 08:00 - 2023-01-02 17:00 | TN
University Closed for faculty, staff, and administration

Last day to add/drop Courses for Decembermester
2022-12-15 08:00 - 17:00 | TN

Decembermester Final Examinations
2022-12-29 08:00 - 17:00 | TN

MLK Joint Day of Service
2023-01-14 10:00 - 16:30 | TN
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Volunteers from American Baptist College, Belmont, Fisk, Lipscomb, Meharry, Nashville State, Tennessee State University, Trevecca, and Vanderbilt, as well as other area colleges and universities, will join in honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by volunteering together for the 12th Annual MLK Joint Day of service!
Register NOW!
Schedule

10:00 – 11:15 AM:
Event Sign-In/Registration and Lunch

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM:
General Program with Video

12:30 PM:
Depart for Service Sites

1:00 – 3:30 PM:
Service at Community Partner Sites

4:00 – 4:30 PM:
Closing Reflection and Prize Drawings

For more information, contact Lakiesha Hunt(servicelearning@fisk.edu), 615-329-8894.

Phi Beta Kappa and the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program present Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman visiting scholar
2023-01-30 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-31 15:00 - 17:00 | TN
More About Our Visiting Scholar:
Gabrielle Foreman holds the Paterno Chair of Liberal Arts and is a Professor of English, African American Studios and History at Penn State University.
Professor Foreman is a poet’s daughter and interdisciplinary scholar raised between the South Side of Chicago and Venice Beach, California. She is the founding faculty director of the award-winning Colored Conventions Project housed in Penn State’s Center for Digital Black Research/#DigBik, which she launched and co-directs with Shirley Moody-Turner. #DiaBlk is made up of undergraduate researchers, graduate student leaders, librarians, satellite faculty, and arts and community partners who bring the buried history of early Black organizing to digital life.
Professor Foreman is known for her long-standing commitment to working in collectives and to institution and community building. For more than a decade, she’s partnered with renowned dance educator Lynnette Overby and poet Glenis Remond on performances that bring Black history alive on the stage; Foreman is the author of five books and editions. Most recently, The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake.
In 2022, she served as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society, working on a new book on the founding families of early Black activism. Professor Foreman is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

Office of Career Planning and Development Fashion Show
2023-02-06 15:00 - 16:00 | TN

OCPD: Know Your Strengths Key Skills Employers are Seeking in the Workplace
2023-02-07 11:30 - 13:00 | TN

OCPD:Key Skills Employers are Seeking in the Workplace (Core Competencies)
2023-02-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Spence Hall Multipurpose Room

Professionalism in the Workplace with Sharon Gentry, HCA
2023-02-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Jubilee Hall, Appleton Room, 1000 17th ave north, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States

Understanding Team Dynamics/The Role You Play in TEAMS with Kosher Briley, Asurion
2023-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Spence Hall Multipurpose Room

Navigating Difficult Conversations/Situations-with Patrick Philips, Ryan Specialty Group
2023-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 | TN
This will be a virtual event. The link will be provided via e-mail.

Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Second Annual Birthday Celebration
2023-02-23 10:00 - 11:30 | Fisk Memorial Chapel, 1000 17th ave north, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States
Honoring Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois at Fisk University

Fisk University, its faculty, staff, students, and alumni each year on February 23rd, celebrate and commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois with an Annual Convocation. As one of Fisk University’s most esteemed graduates and distinguished scholars of the 20th century, Du Bois’s social thought and activism transformed generations, instilling in others citizenship and activism. Du Bois’s legacy as a poet, sociologist, pan-Africanist, novelist, essayist, and lecturer remains a valuable part of the campus culture and academic curriculum at his Alma Mater. We take up the mantle as a university to continue to invoke Dr. William Edward Burghardt. Du Bois’s name keeps the spirit of his life’s work alive for every new generation of Fiskites. Our son ever on the Altar!
This year’s commemoration of Dr. Du Bois will take place on Thursday, February 23rd at 10: 00 am in the Fisk Memorial Chapel and live streamed on the Fisk University Youtube Channel sharing this illustrious occasion with Fisk Alumni and Friends across the world.
Our keynote speaker is CRYSTAL A. deGREGORY, Ph.D. ’03, a Bahamian-diasporan, historian, storyteller, and author of Magic and Mortal (JuJu Collective, 2022), an introduction to her poetic voice, celebrating the nuanced facets of her Black girlhood, womanhood, and Caribbeanness.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the historic Fisk University and former W.E.B. Du Bois Honors student and Currier Scholar, deGregory earned her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in history from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Education from Tennessee State University. Among her myriad of professional and civic affiliations, The Tennessee Historical Society’s trusteeship and membership with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
Known for her collaborative advocacy and entrepreneurial leadership, she serves as the founder and editor of two digital storytelling projects: HBCUstory and Dorian and Beyond—the story of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas.
to watch the live-streamed event click the website link below:

23rd annual Fisk research symposium
2023-04-05 09:00 - 17:30 | TN
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Morning Poster/Oral Presentations (Library)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Afternoon Poster/Oral Presentations (Library)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Plenary Panel – AI & Ethics (Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall) – details are given below

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Session title: Addressing Health Equity Through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): Real or Hype?
Session format: A roundtable discussion
Session Time/Day: April 5, 2023, 4:00 pm -5:30 pm CST
Session Place: Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall
Session Speakers/Panelists:

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA; National Alliance Against Disparities in Patient Health, Chief Data Governance Officer; AIM-AHEAD Co-Investigator; AIM-AHEAD Ethics and Equity Workgroup Co-Chair (moderator)
Benjamin Collins, MD, MA; Vanderbilt University Medical Center Physician and Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; AIM-AHEAD Co-Investigator; AIM-AHEAD Ethics and Equity Workgroup member (panelist)
Ellen Clayton, MD, JD; Vanderbuilt University Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Law; Professor of Health Policy; AIM-AHEAD Co-Investigator; AIM-AHEAD Ethics and Equity Workgroup member (panelist)
Lauren Edgar, DNP, RN, MSN-Ed.,FNP; AIM-AHEAD Leadership Fellow (panelist)
Monique McCallister, PhD, MS; Tennessee State University Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences; AIM-AHEAD Leadership Fellow (panelist)

Session description:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) involves the use of computer systems to model human cognitive functions like supervised and unsupervised learning and problem-solving. Today, AI/ML tools and devices are deeply embedded within our day-to-day health infrastructure, such as electronic medical records, diagnostic devices, and other tools used across health care and research settings. Also, technological advancements across a multitude of data sources have enabled the capture and continuous and precise analysis of sociodemographic factors, health behavior, disease, biomarkers, and other critical variables of health-relevance. Yet, there are many challenges and opportunities accompanying AI/ML implementation in health research and practice, which has driven a great deal of hype around the actual potential of AI/ML. In fact, the current lack of diversity of both data and researchers in the AI/ML field creates or poses risks to perpetuating harmful biases that may perpetuate health disparities and inequities across a growing range of health-relevant settings.
Join us for a roundtable discussion with faculty, practitioners, and leaders to discuss both the reality and hype surrounding AI/ML use in health-relevant settings, including environmental and social determinants of health. This roundtable discussion is hosted in partnership by Fisk University and the National Alliance Against Disparities in Patient Health (NADPH) and is part of a national conversation within the National Institutes of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD).
Session Moderator
Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup is the Chief Data Governance Officer at the National Alliance Against Disparities in Patient Health (NADPH) and Research Director of Real-World Evidence at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. As a researcher, bioethicist, and policy practitioner, her work centers on addressing implementation and ethical, legal, and social implications issues at the intersection of health policy and innovation. She presently serves as Co-Chair of the AIM-AHEAD Ethics and Equity Workgroup, leading the group in private and public discussions about implementation strategies, barriers, and facilitators to ethics and equity practice implementation in health settings that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) tools. To date, she has engaged over 200 community leaders in areas relevant to the AI/ML learning data lifecycle; presented in several public and private forums hosted by governmental, industry, and academic stakeholders; been cited in highly circulated new articles such as Consumer Reports and STAT, and published work in high-impact and high-quality peer-reviewed journals and outlets, including but not limited the New York Times, JAMA, and Health Affairs Forefront.

Honors Convocation
2023-04-06 13:00 - 14:30 | Fisk Memorial Chapel, 1000 17th ave north, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States

Student Support Services Presents: Meet the staff
2023-04-10 12:00 - 14:00 | DuBois Hall

Student Support Services Presents: The Women's Retreat
2023-04-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Jubilee Hall, Appleton Room, 1000 17th ave north, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States
