Diversity Committee Minutes
April 28, 2014
Agenda
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What do we know about diversity on campus?
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What would we like to do?
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Innovation Grant Proposal
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Other Ideas
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Future Items
Previous Diversity Committees
Used
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Oregon Diversity Institute and Oregon Students
of Color Coalition.
The Innovation Grant
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Proposal sent to UCC Foundation - “Courageous Conversations Summit”
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UCC can use this program as a framework for
training to become more racially competent and conscious.
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60 copies of the book to discuss between departments.
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Could use different sessions, reflections, or
even load a MOOC over the summer.
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Could be a starting place to frame the
committee’s first work.
Collecting Diversity Info
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Survey: Notice to the students to self-collect.
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Marjan - Videos from OSU of how institutions
can interview their students
In-service
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Archie Bunker’s Neighborhood is a role-play exercise
to examine stereotypes and surface how it feels to be oppressed.
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Possibly have a student panel, Q & A.
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Possibly have a student-presented poetry contest
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Slam Poetry
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Katy has done a poetry event
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Arts show based on diversity. Have it be one of
the sections of the presentations.
UCC Hiring
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Why does UCC only post within Oregon and
internally on the website?
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Post jobs to HigherEdJobs, The Chronicle, other
states.
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The departments have unique
list serves.
Process for
Race/Culture Issues
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Online form for students to send incident
reports
Other Ideas
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Students take well to instructors who share
their passion/personality
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Some ask, “Why don’t we celebrate white history
month?” This could be an important conversation.
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Robert Johnson - recent graduate from UCC
studying law wants to be involved.
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Have a month for different brigades e.g. Women’s
Month, Color Month,
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Splitting the responsibility between the
departments.
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Have students and teachers tell stories
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Make a publication w/ everyone’s stories
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Create “Last Lecture” diversity lecture about people’s
culture/ experience; like a TED talk
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Paula Ursey and Susan Rochester want to do
something about women’s representation and misrepresentation in media
Action Items:
None Presented
