Bildner Campus Diversity Initiative Progress Report

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Bildner Campus Diversity InitiativeProgress
Report
Summer Institute 2003
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Goals

• Make real our mission to prepare studentsfor
  a multicultural and global community
• Broaden and deepen the diversity knowledge and
  skills of faculty, staff, students
• Become a resource to the larger community

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Structure/Strategy

• Seminars for Professional and Program Development
• Five seminar groups of faculty and staff over
  five semesters (Spring 03 Spring 05)
• Individual/small group projects for
  transformation
• Connections of seminar groups over time and to
  normal governance of College
• Center for Cultures and Communication
• Academic Programming
• Trainings/ Applied Programming
• Facilitation of intercultural communication and
  dialogue

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• Goals
• To sponsor academic and applied programs in
  diversity for the campus and community
• To research cross-cultural communication and to
  facilitate cross-cultural dialogue on the campus
  and in the community
• Establishing the Center
• Re-conceptualizing and re-naming the institute
  for intercultural communication, broadening scope
• Office space and tech support
• Setting up flow between for-credit Diversity
  Training Certificate interns and graduates and
  CCCs on- and off-campus work

Center for Cultures and Communication
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• 2002-2003 Achievements
• Academic Programming
• Trainings/Applied Programming -- On-campus
• Trainings Off-campus
• Facilitation of intercultural communication and
  dialogue

Center for Cultures and Communication
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• 2002-2003 Achievements
• Academic Programming
• Research Diversity Training Certificate
  students data collection for research on
  ayurvedic (traditional Indian) medicine and
  Western medicine
• Colloquia Persian film maker on war Fulbright
  scholar on cross-cultural psychology
• Professional development/conference Certificate
  students attendance at Teachers College,
  Columbia University, Annual Winter Roundtable on
  Cross Cultural Psychology

Center for Cultures and Communication
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• 2002-2003 Achievements
• Trainings/Applied Programming -- On-campus
• Interns workshops for EOF programs students,
  Freshman Seminar, Hospitality Committee (for
  Korean students in Advanced Technology Institute)
  and Sisters In Support
• Formation of acculturation stress group
• Trainings Off-campus
• New Jersey Performing Arts Center (two workshops,
  plans for continuing)
• Designing trainings for Mayor of Bloomfields
  administrators and staff

Center for Cultures and Communication
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• 2002-2003 Achievements
• Facilitation of intercultural communication and
  dialogue
• Hospitality Committees welcome dinners each
  semester for new Korean students and Bloomfield
  students, social events and field trips to learn
  about Korean and American cultures
• Campus-wide memos on cultural norms for Korean
  students and multicultural sensitivity
• Beginning of Model UN program

Center for Cultures and Communication
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• Goals
• To develop faculty and staff expertise in
  multicultural and global content and
  perspectives, cross-cultural communication, and
  student-centered pedagogies
• To strengthen curricula, co-curricula, and
  services for a diverse student body

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Fall 2002 -- Teachers Talking to Teachers
  Workshops
• Transition Series
• Co-sponsored by Faculty Development Committee and
  Bildner Campus Diversity Initiative

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Fall 2002 -- Teachers Talking to Teachers
  Workshops
• Transition Series
• Faculty Energy and Synergy--Collaboration on
  Interdisciplinary Curricula in a Community-Based
  Project -- by faculty for the Kellman Course in
  the Humanities, a FIPSE-funded course offered at
  Bethany Baptist Church in Newark for adults who
  otherwise would not attempt college-level work
• Bloomfield Students Lives as Texts Migration
  and Immigration by English and history faculty
  members who team-taught the course
• International Exchange Programs for Students and
  Faculty by the coordinator of Study Abroad
• Critical Teaching, Dialogue, and
  Problem-Solving -- by Ira Shor, author of
  Empowering Education Critical Teaching for
  Social Change and other books on student-centered
  pedagogies

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Spring 2003 Seminar
• Methods
• Coordinated by administrator, with chair rotated
  among consultants/facilitators and seminar
  members
• readings and discussions workshops
• personal artifacts presentations by seminar
  members
• interviews of students, insights reported
• individual and small-group projects.

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Spring 2003 Seminar
• Readings/Topics
• Takakis A Different Mirror (with additional
  material on encounters with indigenous peoples of
  North, Central and South America)
• Barbers Jihad vs. McWorld
• Cornwell and Stoddards Globalizing Knowledge
• Omi and Winants Racial Formation chapter
• Berlins Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing
  Class
• Marshall and Rydens Interrogating the
  Monologue Making Whiteness Visible
• Schillings Principles Underlying Effective
  Assessment from AACU Gen Ed conference

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Spring 2003 Seminar
• Other short readings and presentations /workshops
  (by seminar members and consultants)
• Positionality
• Implicit culture and cross-cultural communication
• Intersections of identities
• Racial identity development
• White identity and white privilege (pursued
  beyond seminar in additional sub-group meetings)
• Multiple intelligences
• Diverse learning styles
• Joseph Katzs Master Faculty model for
  interviewing students
• Student engagement/activism
• Survey of institutional statistics and existing
  resources of oral histories and ethnographic
  research
• Use of Blackboard for seminar resources
• Library and on-line resources

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Seminar Projects
• Quilt-making and the Quilting Bee
• Cultural Encounters in Early America
• Concentration in International Business
  Management
• Impact of Personal Development on Student Success
  
• Model UN Program
• Academic Foundations Reading and Writing
• Writing and Analysis I
• Sophomore Core Social Responsibility
• Student Profiles/Assessment for General Education
• Integration of Curricular and Co-curricular
  Learning
• Student Engagement in Co-curriculum
• White Identity and Privilege

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Insights about Comprehensive Institutional Change
  and Diversity
• Comes from all directions
• Acknowledges and uses the on-campus expertise
• Is directed at fulfilling a focused mission
• Has support of the Board, senior administration,
  faculty, staff
• Requires planning, regular reformulation of
  strategies
• Requires resources
• Requires time for professional development, new
  learning and reflection
• Gives flexibility to go where new learning
  re-directs
• Needs personal commitment and openness of faculty
  and staff
• Asks faculty/staff to reflect on positionality
  and identity, as well as theory/application of
  scholarship in their field
• Needs and creates a community of
  teachers-as-learners
• Employs knowledge of students backgrounds and
  values
• Recognizes connections of local and global
  identities and issues

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Overcoming Barriers
• (Expected and Unexpected)
• Increase accessibility of seminar to faculty
  teaching labs and clinicals
• Keep all voices audible Use reaction papers,
  frequently
• Overly ambitious plan for ethnographic research
  Conversion to model for student interviews
• Maximize impact of student interviews Begin in
  first few weeks of seminar
• Accommodate more volunteers than planned Revise
  budget

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Overcoming Barriers
• (Expected and Unexpected)
• Give more attention to assessment Engage
  project historian in fall
• Give more attention to the arts as catalysts for
  bridging cultural barriers
• Create a 48-hour day
• Remain flexible and reallocate budget to
  accommodate new activities of the Center for
  Cultures and Communication

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Bildner Seminar Participants
• Spring 2003
• Nancy Bacci - Asst Prof. of Creative Arts
  Technology
• Julie Chambers - Asst. Prof. of Business
• Maryann DiLiberto Assoc. Prof. of Economics
• Steve Golin Prof. of History Coordinator of
  Teaching Learning Center
• Rashmi Jaipal - Asst. Prof. of Psychology
  Director of Center for Cultures Communcation
• Barbara Machtinger Assoc. Prof. of History
• Ian Marshall Communication Skills Specialist,
  Center for Academic Development
• Itzi Meztli - Asst. Prof. of English Writing
  Analysis Program Coordinator
• Terri Slaughter - Director of Co-Curricular
  Programs
• Sandy Van Dyk Assoc. Prof. of History and
  Africana Studies Chairperson of the Humanities
  Division Coordinator of General Education Program

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Bildner Seminar Participants
• Fall 2003
• Bob Burnett - Adjunct Faculty Member in History
  Specialist in New Jersey History
• Teri Corso - Director, Office of Student
  Development and Career Services
• Anna Cortese Mathematics Specialist, Center for
  Academic Development
• Paul Genega - Assoc. Prof. of English
  Chairperson of Faculty
• Luis Gonzalez Prof. of Economics
• Elissa Koplik Assoc. Prof. of Psychology
• Claudia Kowalchyk Assoc. Prof. of Sociology
  President of the A.A.U.P.
• Erica Polakoff Asst. Prof. Div. of Sociology
  Coordinator of Study Abroad
• Stanley Porteur Acquisitions, Library
• Lisa Rabinowitz, Prof. of Creative Arts and
  Technology(C.A.T.) Chairperson of C.A.T.
• David Rosenak Director, Arts Education

Professional and Program Development Seminar
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• Bildner Seminar Participants
• Spring and Fall 2003
• Martha LaBare -- Project Director Dean of
  Academic Affairs 02-03 Interim Vice President
  for Academic Affairs 03-04
• Mark Jackson Project Librarian and Archivist
  Reference Librarian

Professional and Program Development Seminar