Guidelines for diversity submissions
Due December 11, 2006
Please submit a description of 600 words or less outlining your most exemplary diversity program(s). Be sure to specify of the following six categories is best fit.
1) Institutional Mission and Ethos
What institutional strategies, policies, and practices make it clear that your institution is committed to diversity as a central means of achieving its educational aims? Possible examples might include comprehensive institutional diversity initiatives, institutional strategic plans, or structures of accountability for including diversity as part of your institution’s on-going operation.
2) Access and Achievement
What institutional programs have enabled your campus to make progress with regards not only to recruitment and access but also to the academic success of underrepresented students? What evidence have you gathered that indicates whether your program is working or not? In addition to pathways to and through college for underrepresented groups, we are also seeking examples of programs that enhance recruitment, tenure, and promotion of underrepresented faculty and administrators.
3) Curricular Designs
What best represents your institution’s integrated curricular design for engaging students with U.S. and global diversity at multiple levels, in various disciplines, and over more than one year? Possible examples may include new designs for diversity requirements, innovative general education models, principles and practices that inform your curricular model, or disciplinary majors and interdisciplinary programs that systematically address diversity.
4) Alliance between Student and Academic Affairs
What are some exemplary programs on your campus that rely on partnerships between student and academic affairs to help students address issues of inclusion, belonging, and achievement? Examples may include such things as living/learning communities, projects that address inter- and intra-group relations, programs that facilitate student transitions, or student and academic affairs collaboration intentionally reinforce student learning about and engagement with global and U.S. diversity
5) Intergroup Relations and Campus Life
What programs most effectively structure experiences that engage members of your campus in sustained conversations and engagements across differences? How do such programs affect the overall campus climate? Possible examples might include campus life programs in residence halls or through student organizations, intergroup relations programs and intercultural components within courses, or more campus-wide, issue-centered programs that require deliberation, consensus, and action plans.
6) Engagement with Local and Global Communities
What programs at your institution most effectively enhance student learning through community-based opportunities and partnerships? Possible examples may include research and service programs that are an integral part of general education programs, culminating senior capstones in majors that demand students apply their disciplinary knowledge in real world situations, or intergroup dialogues over time that foster democratic art of deliberation across differences.
If your submission is not selected for publication in the new monograph, it may instead be featured in one or more of our other publications, such as DiversityWeb, Diversity Digest, or Peer Review, all of which have a national audiences. The deadline for submission is Monday, December 11, 2006.
Electronic submission is preferred. Please send your submission and contact information to: yong@aacu.org. If you have any questions, please contact Sook-Yi Yong at yong@aacu.org or 202-387-3760 extension 436.
To view a PDF copy of Reasons for Hope, please visit http://www.aacu.org/diversityweb/documents/ReasonsforHope.pdf
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