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Creating A Diversity Movement In The University, Rupert W. Nacoste Ph.D.
Creating A Diversity Movement In The University, Rupert W. Nacoste Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
What kind of actions can a university take to create a diversity movement within its confines? Taking recent work at North Carolina State University as the prototype, this session will be used to outline and discuss the characteristics of administrative action that can lead to a comprehensive and programmatic diversity movement within any college or university.
A Student, An Athlete And A Person Of Color: The Challenge Of Thriving In Predominantly White Institutions - With Two Strikes Against You, Renita Tyrance
A Student, An Athlete And A Person Of Color: The Challenge Of Thriving In Predominantly White Institutions - With Two Strikes Against You, Renita Tyrance
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This guided panel will include discussions of approximately eight celebrated current and former UNL athletes of color from five sports over a period of twenty-five years. Panelists will be asked questions about their social and cultural experiences prior to, during and after their tenure of athletic participation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Winning On For The Gipper: Diversity Strategies And Initiative At Notre Dame, Hugh R. Page Jr., Ph. D., Richard Pierce Ph. D., Gina Shropshire Ph. D., Lynn Todman Ph. D.
Winning On For The Gipper: Diversity Strategies And Initiative At Notre Dame, Hugh R. Page Jr., Ph. D., Richard Pierce Ph. D., Gina Shropshire Ph. D., Lynn Todman Ph. D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
One of the enduring images linked to the University of Notre Dame is that of injured football player George Gipp imploring Coach Knute Rockne to "Win One for the Gipper. " Similarly, people of color and conscience at Notre Dame struggle with formidable challenges in implementing diversity into areas of faculty retention, university initiatives and community outreach, all while remaining sane. The panelists will discuss innovative successes and continuing efforts that can be adapted by others seeking a game plan for diversity.
Workplace Mediation For Diversity Conflicts, Maxine Ballard
Workplace Mediation For Diversity Conflicts, Maxine Ballard
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Diversity conflicts usually occur in organizations where communication is inadequate and generally require a third party to facilitate resolution. Developing and preserving healthy workplace relationships must be a top priority for all employees. Using mediation to resolve diversity conflicts in the workplace allow preservation of jobs and full and equal participation and contributions by all employees (including minority employee groups). This workshop is designed to provide people of color in predominantly white institutions an alternate dispute resolution method to resolve relational conflicts such as race, gender, age and culture differences.
Mussab: An Indispensable Link Between Faculty And Multicultural Students' Academic Success, Nilda Aragones, Kathy Carroll, Liya Li Ph.D.
Mussab: An Indispensable Link Between Faculty And Multicultural Students' Academic Success, Nilda Aragones, Kathy Carroll, Liya Li Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
The panel will discuss how the faculty and SUNY Rockland Community College identifies difficulties faced by multicultural underrepresented students through a faculty advisory board and pragmatic activities. Serving as a bridge that connects faculty from various disciplines, the Multicultural Underrepresented Student Success Advisory Board was able to institute a campus-wide climate survey to assess the needs of multicultural students and to help them find ways to effectively deal with the challenges.
Dispelling The Mascot Myth: The Misuse Of Indigenous Peoples As Mascots In American Schools, Cornel Pewewardy Ph.D.
Dispelling The Mascot Myth: The Misuse Of Indigenous Peoples As Mascots In American Schools, Cornel Pewewardy Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This workshop details the deculturalization process that takes place when Indigenous Peoples are used as mascots in school-related activities; examines the arguments(s) and defensive tactics used by sports fans and school officials to maintain these hegemonic images; and offers successful strategies for developing policy toward the elimination of Indigenous Peoples as mascots.
The Unique Challenges And Experiences Of African¬-American Women Academicians At Predominantly White Institutions, Gary K. Perry
The Unique Challenges And Experiences Of African¬-American Women Academicians At Predominantly White Institutions, Gary K. Perry
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session addresses the unique challenges of African-American women academicians at predominantly white institutions. After assessing scholarly literature in this area, most research has and continues, to ignore the interrelationship between race, class and gender. This paper builds on existing literature by offering a discourse that addresses various challenges facing these women.
Check All That Apply: The Census And The Multiracial Population, Nina Grant, Cecilia Olivares
Check All That Apply: The Census And The Multiracial Population, Nina Grant, Cecilia Olivares
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
In this presentation, we introduce the idea that different definitions of being multiracial and attitudes toward acknowledging mixed-raced origins might have affected the 2000 census enumeration of the multiracial population. How multiracial people self-identify and how society identifies multiracial people has become an escalating debate among many people. Because more Americans than ever are claiming their multiracial heritages, how they deal with the "other" category, or other restrictions to answering race and ethnicity questions ("Please check only one") is one of the most compelling issues in society today.
Comprehending Cultural Factors That Impact Success: Emerging Views Of The Latina/O Experience At Predominantly White Institutions, Ricardo Montelongo, David A. Ortiz
Comprehending Cultural Factors That Impact Success: Emerging Views Of The Latina/O Experience At Predominantly White Institutions, Ricardo Montelongo, David A. Ortiz
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session is organized into three sections: an overview of the Latina/o condition in higher education that directly affect recruitment and retention; a synopsis of emergent and cutting¬-edge research aimed at facilitating success for Latina/o students, staff and faculty at predominantly white institutions; and participant-centered discussion of concepts, issues and practical problems. Personal experiences will be used for illustration purposes and will serve as a catalyst for discussion. The goal of this session is to enhance program participants' understanding of and ability to promote Latina/o socialization, leadership development and educational advancement at predominantly white institutions at all levels.
The Role Of A Multicultural Facility In Enhancing Community Among Diverse Cultures, Melissa Abele, Chandra Claassen, Kara Helgeson, Becki Majors, Rachelle Winkle
The Role Of A Multicultural Facility In Enhancing Community Among Diverse Cultures, Melissa Abele, Chandra Claassen, Kara Helgeson, Becki Majors, Rachelle Winkle
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
The results of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study imply that education, representation and support are key to creating community among students of color. Through the exploration of students' responses, the presenters will identify what services, programming and space should be offered in a multicultural facility.
Creating Campus Community: Forming Institutional Responses To Students' Lack Of Cultural Competencies, Sherwood Smith Ph.D., Sarah Conant Martin, Jacob Diaz, Wilfrido Cruz
Creating Campus Community: Forming Institutional Responses To Students' Lack Of Cultural Competencies, Sherwood Smith Ph.D., Sarah Conant Martin, Jacob Diaz, Wilfrido Cruz
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session explores how predominantly white institutions address students' lack of cross cultural awareness and racial stereotyping. A team of administrators, faculty and students share and critique real life situations for analysis. The goal is to use a case study approach to discuss six issues critical in creating effective responses to incidents.
Turning Tables: Recovering The African American Resistance Tradition At Predominantly White Institutions Of Learning, Jean Daniels Ph.D.
Turning Tables: Recovering The African American Resistance Tradition At Predominantly White Institutions Of Learning, Jean Daniels Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
How does race and gender connect to the issue of "authority" in the university classroom? In this session, there will be an exploration of how the subject" authority" in the classroom is linked to white students and their knowledge history. For most white students, the sight of an African American female at the head of a university classroom is an unfamiliar sight. Yet, for the black female professor, the classroom is becoming the "home" of African American resistance to oppression and injustice.
Learning Across Cultures: How Minority Students Construct Identities That Foster Academic Success, Maryjo Benton Lee
Learning Across Cultures: How Minority Students Construct Identities That Foster Academic Success, Maryjo Benton Lee
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
In China, successful minority students are those who construct “achievement-oriented selves." Through interaction with significant others, these students develop perspectives of themselves as "successes." This, in turn, makes academic achievement possible. The "identity work" of Chinese ethnic students can serve as a model for those involved with minority education in the U.S.
Konbit: A Model For Bringing Campus And Community Together To Serve An Immigrant Population, Walter J. Pierce, Sharon Singleton-Bowie, B.J. Bryson
Konbit: A Model For Bringing Campus And Community Together To Serve An Immigrant Population, Walter J. Pierce, Sharon Singleton-Bowie, B.J. Bryson
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Immigrant social work students and alumni bring a special interest in sensitizing the university community to the problems and needs of their group. KONBIT (gathering) is the Haitian way of calling people together to discuss an issue. This presentation describes the process and outcome of such a gathering.
Beyond Comfort Zones Of Whiteness: Strategies For Inclusion Of People Of Color In The Social Milieu Of Predominantly White Institutions, C. S'Thembile West Ph.D.
Beyond Comfort Zones Of Whiteness: Strategies For Inclusion Of People Of Color In The Social Milieu Of Predominantly White Institutions, C. S'Thembile West Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session seeks to promote the recognition and acknowledgement of the humanity of people of color and discusses the development of faculty initiatives to enhance the retention of people of color in predominantly white institutions as it highlights the challenges of white skin privilege.
Why Can't We Wait (To Spend) And The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Potential Negative Impact On Minority Employees From Well-Intentioned Organizational Compensation Practices, James R. Jones
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
The presenter outlines a theoretical argument suggesting that organizational attempts to increase short- and long-term motivation and loyalty may unwittingly exacerbate career and financial growth problems for some "minority" workers. Research on ethnic cultural tendencies and individual differences in spending propensities is used to support the notion that the use of incentive-based compensation systems and retirement programs could lead to employees being both undermined in terms of financial health and "slotted" into divergent career paths.
Academentia: Physiological Stress, Toxic Work Sites And The Neutralization Of Blackness By The Whiteness Standards Of Professionalization, Enoch H. Page Ph.D.
Academentia: Physiological Stress, Toxic Work Sites And The Neutralization Of Blackness By The Whiteness Standards Of Professionalization, Enoch H. Page Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Using auto-ethnographic methods, supplementing by current race theories, along with interviews from other scholars, I regard academentia as a form of professionalism most readily communicable to academics of color seeking advance. It can also infect those whose embrace of blackness (widely defined across cultures) is the least tolerant of the racial designs of white cultural practices. Where in the interest of students and colleagues, such academics challenge the whiteness criteria defining academic success, most of their peers adhere to the racial standards of professionalism.
Crossing Boundaries To Engage In Difficult Dialogues, Gertrude Edem, Joseph L. Mbele
Crossing Boundaries To Engage In Difficult Dialogues, Gertrude Edem, Joseph L. Mbele
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
We are two African scholars, from Nigeria and Tanzania, who have extensive experience in Canada and the United States. Issues such as race and color, which are so central to the lives of people in North America do not seem to matter to us as much. This often creates misunderstandings between us as Africans and the people of North America. In the United States, for example, we Africans find ourselves in a situation where there are categories ready made, such as "people of color" and we wonder whether those categories are supposed to apply to us. We wonder whether the …
Gator Launch: Developing A Minority Career-Mentoring Program, Shanaz Ali Sawyer M.S., Lisa Severy Ed.S.
Gator Launch: Developing A Minority Career-Mentoring Program, Shanaz Ali Sawyer M.S., Lisa Severy Ed.S.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Retaining minority students on college campuses is an important factor for maintaining the rich diversity of a university student body. This session will provide a look at the development of a career-mentoring program for minority college students to enhance retention and career success beyond graduation.
Addressing Recruitment And Retention Through Building Anti-Racist, Multicultural Campuses, Phyllis May-Machunda, Amy Phillips
Addressing Recruitment And Retention Through Building Anti-Racist, Multicultural Campuses, Phyllis May-Machunda, Amy Phillips
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Conventional and creative strategies for recruitment and retention of people of color in predominantly white institutions have not worked. Long-term success in recruitment and retention requires institutional acknowledgement of systemic racism and development of an anti-racist institutional identity. This presentation will examine one Midwestern campus' effort to achieve this goal.
Parent Involvement In The College Search Process, Nicole Jackson
Parent Involvement In The College Search Process, Nicole Jackson
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session is designed to stress the importance of parent involvement in the college search process for students of color. Attention will be given to programming ideas that challenge cultural, income, value, language and social barriers that have traditionally prevented parents of color from encouraging their students to pursue higher education.
Multiple Perspectives On A Failed Attempt At Diversity, Fay Akindes, Michele Gee Ph.D., Farida Khan, Mary Kay Schleiter Ph.D.
Multiple Perspectives On A Failed Attempt At Diversity, Fay Akindes, Michele Gee Ph.D., Farida Khan, Mary Kay Schleiter Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Four faculty members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds use a polyvocal method of analysis to discuss a set of patterns which insure the failure of a campus to retain most faculty and teaching academic staff of color for more than a few years.
The "Foreigner": Pedagogical Practices On Teaching Cultural Studies Courses, Gwendolyn Guy, Gaetane Jean-Marie
The "Foreigner": Pedagogical Practices On Teaching Cultural Studies Courses, Gwendolyn Guy, Gaetane Jean-Marie
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Black women scholars rarely get the opportunity to chronicle and critique their experiences as instructors in predominantly white institutions. When the black professor endeavors to teach cultural studies, there are immediate challenges that must be overcome for the engagement of critical discourse. This discussion will include ideas and recommendations concerning the issues explored by the presenters.
Multiculturalism Vs. Multiethnicity: Strategies Toward Creating A Truly Positive Campus Environment-Csu Long Beach, A Case Study, Bede Ssenid-Ssensalo Ph.D.
Multiculturalism Vs. Multiethnicity: Strategies Toward Creating A Truly Positive Campus Environment-Csu Long Beach, A Case Study, Bede Ssenid-Ssensalo Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
In this session, the presenter proposes that there is a difference between mutliethnicity and multiculturalism. He urges those in higher education at predominantly white institutions to move from one to the other citing CSU Long Beach as a model.
Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences And The Construction Of Identity: How Curriculum Impacts Educational Outcomes For Foreign Students, Yuri Wellington
Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences And The Construction Of Identity: How Curriculum Impacts Educational Outcomes For Foreign Students, Yuri Wellington
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
Using both qualitative and quantitative measures, this session will examine the case of one department within one academic institution of higher learning. Using data from a ten-year follow-up study of a federally funded Title VII Training, Development and Improvement Program Grant, this presentation considers whether the increase in use of multicultural materials reflects an increase in the integration of multicultural and second language acquisition knowledge and methodology into the curricula; and how such a quantitative increase in the integration of multicultural and second language acquisition knowledge and methodology into the curricula is qualitatively perceived by students. Through data collected from …
The Recruitment And Retention Of Students Of Color At Private Institutions, Anthony Cortese
The Recruitment And Retention Of Students Of Color At Private Institutions, Anthony Cortese
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session presents a longitudinal study of recruitment and retention of students of color at a predominantly white university in the American Southwest. The institution was able to increase minority student enrollment 14 percent in fewer than ten years. This was accomplished through the careful development, implementation and evaluation of a policy designed to recruit and retain minority students. The specifics of this policy and how it may be used as a model for other predominantly white institutions are discussed.
Making The Canon: Whose Postcolonial Literature Is It?, Sonia Delgado-Tall Ph.D.
Making The Canon: Whose Postcolonial Literature Is It?, Sonia Delgado-Tall Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
The presenter argues that post-colonial literatures are increasingly "culturally" appropriated by Western literacy critics and institutions. Their so-called incorporation into the category of World literatures has had little impact on North/South political and economic relations and Western representations of non-western cultures in popular culture. Moreover, the process of decolonization needs to be re-activated by African scholars from the South living in the North as well as within African universities.
Plantation Mythology: Black Women In Academia, S. Malone-Hawkins Ph.D., Erma J. Lawson Ph.D.
Plantation Mythology: Black Women In Academia, S. Malone-Hawkins Ph.D., Erma J. Lawson Ph.D.
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This article presents the process and findings of a study to establish the relativity of plantation mythology to the institution of higher learning. The method employed is a comparative personal history of a twenty-year period using an expert panel approach. A ten person expert panel of women of color was identified to generate a depiction of the conterminous experiences on the plantation. While we will not use a specific time frame, we will, however, analyze time and place similarities.
From Plantation To Partnership Politics: Being Black In The Academy, Valarie Greene King Ph.D., Rebekah Mccloud Ed.D., Diana Mitchell
From Plantation To Partnership Politics: Being Black In The Academy, Valarie Greene King Ph.D., Rebekah Mccloud Ed.D., Diana Mitchell
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This session examines the lingering impact of systems of domination and oppression on black faculty and staff on predominantly white campuses. It highlights ways these forces continue to stifle and impede the efforts by blacks to build meaningful and supportive alliances. Interactive and multi-media approaches are used to underscore practices for critical affirmation, self-recovery, intra-group partnerships and multi-cultural community building.
Recruitment And Retention Of Culturally Diverse Faculty/Staff: Our Process For Success, Sharon Ulmar, Sherri Rogers
Recruitment And Retention Of Culturally Diverse Faculty/Staff: Our Process For Success, Sharon Ulmar, Sherri Rogers
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
This presentation will highlight the very successful process followed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for recruiting culturally diverse faculty and staff and further illustrates the joint ownership of this process by the Chancellor's Office as well as by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs office. The individual unit retention and assessment strategies will be shared with participants.