The Bildner Family Foundation
NJCDI Summer Institute 2002

Princeton, New Jersey, June 21-24, 2002

Sponsored by the Bildner Family Foundation and organized by AAC&U, this four-day residential institute brought together New Jersey leadership institutions selected statewide to participate in a three-year project to promote intergroup understanding and reduce prejudice. The Institute provided each of the six-member teams with opportunities to broaden their conceptual frameworks, gather practical ideas for implementation, improve their original institutional plan, and coalesce into a statewide initiative.

The challenge of intercultural dialogue in a diverse democracy was woven through four morning academic seminars and a series of three Study Circle action groups. Afternoon workshops and roundtables were also offered on assessing campus diversity initiatives, bridging campus-community divides, human rights and global diversity issues, intergroup dialogue, and institutional transformation.

Time was allocated for teams to refine their institutional diversity plans and also to have individualized consultations. The final plenary harvested the collective ideas for concrete actions that could enhance campus diversity initiatives and strengthen statewide momentum for transformational change in a diverse democracy.

Seminars:
Seminar One: Higher Education in a Diverse Democracy
Seminar Two: Intersections of Identities
Seminar Three: Immigration, Migration and Citizenship
Seminar Four: Engaging Communities Locally, Nationally, and Globally

Institute Faculty:
Caryn McTighe Musil
Vice President
Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives
AAC&U

Corann Okorodudu
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Psychology
Rowan University

David Schoem
Faculty Director, Michigan Community Scholars Program
Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan