COMMUNITY & DIVERSITY COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT-

2014

G. Rumay Alexander EdD, RN, FAANChairperson

Elephant Hugging

Who deserves a chance in your program? What must they do to earn that chance? Where are the biases in our system

(tradition)? Do we believe that treating everyone the

same is treating everyone fairly? Are we concerned with those whom we

have minoritized?

MinoritizedSignifies the social construction of underrepresentation and subordination. Persons are not born into minority status nor are they minoritized in every social milieu(e.g., in their families and places of religious worship). Instead, they are rendered minorities in particular situations and institutional environments that maintain an overrepresentation of one racial group and its dominant cultural norms. Dr. Shaun Harper

Quantum Theory…WOO!

Fitting In Vs. BelongingSocial Identity…ISMS

Cultural Due Diligence

Hmmm…Do you get me?

Cues that signal threatening contingencies foster vigilance and hamper a sense of belonging in the setting. This, in turn, impairs learning and performance.

Stereotypes Assumptions Rules Labels

Consider this….

You cannot talk your way out of what you behaved

your way into!

Flourishing Environments

Manage perception

Respect

Legitimacy

Self Esteem

Light is a great disinfectant! Louis Pasteur

Curriculum Pedagogy Admissions Faculty/Staff Searches Appointments, Promotions, Tenure Syllabi Web Page Fear Reduction

Making Pies What gets mandated gets

Perpetuated Initiated Educated Situated

“If you touch a spider’s web anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling. As we move

through and around this world, and as we act with kindness, or indifference, or even hostility

toward the people we meet, we too, are setting the great spider web a-tremble. The

life I touch will touch another life, and that, in turn another, until who knows where the

trembling stops or in what far place and time my touch will be felt. You can’t find a better way to quantify or qualify someone’s legacy. Just think of the web you have set a-tremble”.

Frederick Buechner

QUESTIONS?????