The Bildner Family Foundation
NJCDI Summer Institute 2003
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Campus, June 8-10, 2003
Sponsored by the Bildner Family Foundation and organized
by AAC&U, the second annual New Jersey Campus Diversity
Summer Institute brought the Bildner Campus Diversity Initiative
leadership institutions back together to reflect on the progress
made and the challenges faced during the first year of their
Campus Diversity Initiatives and to plot strategies and discover
new innovative practices to further the campuses' projects
in the second and third years.
During this three-day residential institute, participants
had the opportunity to broaden intellectual understandings
of diversity work and to think about ideas such as identity
development, intercultural encounters, and the role of higher
education in creating inclusive, engaged communities during
two morning seminars. A series of practical workshops and
plenary sessions augmented the seminars by offering pragmatic
approaches that could enhance their diversity initiatives
and inform the larger public about the impact of campus diversity
work.
A new feature to the Institute was a series of cross-institutional
thematic clusters that explored five different areas of interest
to the Bildner participants and tapped the leadership growing
on the Bildner campuses. Each cluster examined instrumental
questions about implementation and process, offered guiding
principles to accelerate success, and suggested ways of collaborating
across institutions during the next two years. During the
final plenary, each cluster group presented their collective
outcomes, which included guiding principles and cautionary
notes.
Seminars:
Seminar One: The Boundaries
of Belonging
Seminar Two: Justice for
Everyday Collective Life
Plenary:
Honing Your Message and Communicating
Your Successes
Inter-institutional Thematic Clusters:
1. Campus/Community Partnerships
2. Intercultural
Centers and Programs (161 KB, PDF)
3. Curricular Transformation
(115 KB, PDF)
4. Faculty/Staff Development
& Leadership (86 KB, PDF)
5. Assessment
Institute Faculty:
Peter Kiang, Professor of Education and Director of the Asian
American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
L. Lee Knefelkamp, Professor of Higher & Postsecondary
Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Jack Meacham, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, University
at Buffalo—The State University of New York
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