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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
Educational Leadership Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
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.
Can Diversity Programs Help Change Behaviors In The Campus Environment, Sharon Ulmar
Can Diversity Programs Help Change Behaviors In The Campus Environment, Sharon Ulmar
Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
“Once diversity programs have been conducted, the participants must move forward. It is clear from the action plans that more attention must be paid to ensure that more participants take action.”
Attempting Preventing Reinventing The Wheel: Establishing Chicano/A-Latino/A Studies At A Midwest Urban University, Joseph A. Valades, Theresa Barron-Mckeagney, Michael Carroll, Lourdes Gouveia, Lucy Garza
Attempting Preventing Reinventing The Wheel: Establishing Chicano/A-Latino/A Studies At A Midwest Urban University, Joseph A. Valades, Theresa Barron-Mckeagney, Michael Carroll, Lourdes Gouveia, Lucy Garza
Social Work Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
“This session will focus on the personal observations of three faculty who sought to establish a minor in Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies . . . Follow our graphic accounts as we wrestle with the decision of actually embarking on such a quest amidst our thencurrent demands of doctoral coursework, research, teaching and tenure.” In the fall semester of 1995, Chicano/a Studies was formally recognized as a "minor" at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Two years previously, three faculty members from the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at UNO diligently worked to gather student and faculty support and put the …
Critical Moments: A Case Study Approach For Easing The Cultural Isolation Of Underrepresented College Students, Reshell Ray, Diane Gillespie
Critical Moments: A Case Study Approach For Easing The Cultural Isolation Of Underrepresented College Students, Reshell Ray, Diane Gillespie
Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
This workshop will familiarize participants with a cultural diversity case study approach for curriculum reform called “Critical Moments.” The program has a culturally diverse student body and a multicultural curriculum in the social sciences and . . . has won national and local awards for its retention and teaching of underrepresented students.