From November 16 through 30, the Alumni Association will host Lagniappe Days: Loyola’s Community Impact Campaign. During Lagniappe Days, you can support vital student and faculty causes that have a direct impact on our community. Loyola has provided quality Jesuit education for over a century, but its impact goes far beyond the classroom. Our faculty and students provide and participate in a range of programs and causes that improve the quality of life in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region.

Please join us for a presentation given by Dr. Rebeca de Jesus Crespo, College of Coast and the Environment, Louisiana State University.  

This talk turns to Edmund Spenser’s epic-romance, The Faerie Queene, to inquire how literary forms transform the concept of nature into an engine of race-making. Dr. Debapriya Sarkar attends to the poetic apparatus that dehumanizes marginalized figures, turning them into symbol and allegory by linking them to wasted and unsalvageable environments.

Loyola University and Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Presents: A Film Screening: The Skin You're In. It will be followed by an open discussion with Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D., Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School 9of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. 

The documentary explores African-American health disparities through the eyes of those affected, along with expert commentary. The film addresses why the problem exists and what can be done to achieve health equity.