Lynn K' Rhodes, Dean

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Creating a Climate for Diversityfor All

• Lynn K. Rhodes, Dean
• Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity
• March 4, 2006

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Defining Climate

• Mission
• Faculty recruitment support
• Student recruitment support
• Curriculum, including internships
• Research
• Dialogue

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The Schools Mission

• Through its research, education and outreach
  programs, the School of Education and Human
  Development provides leadership for learning and
  professional practice in diverse, urban
  communities.

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Faculty/Researchers

• Recruitment
• Well-crafted position descriptions, open rank
• Active recruitment supported with training
• Expedited search process
• Support (for all)
• Mentoring program
• Infrastructure for research grant writing

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Student Recruitment Support

• Undergraduate Education Scholars for Urban Youth
  
• Masters specialist levels
• Planning
• Diversity retreat for incoming Counseling
  students
• Doctoral level Doctoral Students of Color
• Mentoring Institute for Latino Leaders

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Curricular Infusion of Diversity

• Supported by a series of grants from CUs Office
  of Diversity
• Built on expertise developed in some programs
• Structured, facilitated discussions in all
  programs
• Audit to identify gaps in issues, topics, voices
• Curricular revision
• Internships in partner schools organizations
  serving diverse clientele

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Research

• Foundation Faculty whose research is focused on
  a variety of diversity issues in education and
  mental health
• Examples of Centers and Institutes
• National Institute for Urban School Improvement
• Paraprofessional Resource and Research Center
• National Center for Culturally Responsive
  Educational Systems

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Dialogue Searching for Understanding
Confronting Discomfort

• Current institutionally-supported dialogues
• Surrounding faculty searches
• Surrounding the curricular infusion of diversity
• Doctoral faculty and student retreat, Opening
  Doors Third Space for Participation
• Power, Privilege and Difference book study
• Each individual is a mirror of the whole, but
  simultaneously each individual can only account
  for a portion of what is happening. We need
  dialogue with each other that evokes a greater
  whole.
• Alan Briskin