Diversity Committee Notes – January 15, 2008
We
definitely decided our theme for the conference is ‘Breaking Out of the
Box’. We are encouraging people to think and ‘operate’ outside of their
normal comfort zone.
Activity – Human Scavenger Hunt
Shaun is taking the lead on this. The scavenger hunt asks
the ‘hunter’ to locate people with certain experiences and characteristics. The
‘hunter keeps track of his/her finds, allowing people to strike up
conversations with other conference participants. Shaun and Delores will decide
the details of the game - such as dividing the group by color or
university, etc. and will let us know if they need additional help.
Symposium
Since we are Breaking Outside of the Box, we’ve decided to do away with the
Symposium’s normal format but instead view and discuss a movie that has
significance for today’s college campuses. The movie may be somewhat
controversial, may highlight multicultural interactions, discussing
differences, frictions, commonalities. Amy Sikes will then facilitate the following
discussions since she has great teaching experience, has dealt with
multicultural interactions and has already facilitated discussions
of movies. Hope will research movies. Some suggestions: The Great Debate,
The American Gangster, Higher Learning. As more movies are suggested, we’ll pass along to the Committee. The
concept needs refining but we’ll do so as we discuss further.
March 29 –
Tim is
working on sponsoring a College Day at
HBCU Sector Meeting
We had
talked briefly about possibly hosting a session for HBCU’s that are already in
place for public, private, prop etc. schools. Patrice Johnson had agreed to
work on this in an earlier conversation and Amy will help. They will decide on
logistics, etc. and let us know their findings.
General Session Speaker
Having
difficulty securing someone suitable. Hope is working on Tony Brown, Dean of
the
Since
everybody is very busy right now, we did not schedule the next meeting. Will do
that in early February.