Center for Educational Pluralism
Newsletters
Spring 1997
VOICES panel
Winter quarter the CEP sponsored a Voices Panel presentation on the
5th of March called "Diversity Training: From the Classroom to
the Boardroom." There were speakers from WesternÕs campus and
from around the city discussing certain issues and methods surrounding
diversity in the workplace and elsewhere. The panelists were Dr. Kunle
Ojikutu, Assistant Vice-president of Student Affairs; Renee Collins,
member of the Whatcom County chapter of the NAACP, representative of
the Minority Community Advisory Committee and diversity training
specialist; Dr. Walt Lonner, Psychology Professor and Director of the
Center for Cross-Cultural Research in the Psychology Department;
Barbara Storms, a teacher in the Bellingham School District; and Joan
Ullin, Co-Chair for the Whatcom County Human Rights Task Force.
Discussion ranged from how students are presented with diversity
issues in the classroom--how faculty equip their students with an
understanding of diversity--to how diversity affects the job place and
interactions at work. There was also discussion on the need for
students to take more of an active role to understand, gain
familiarity with and promote diversity for their own personal
enrichment, rather than wait for a school or a department to mandate
diversity action.
Coming up this quarter is a Voices Panel presentation concerning
Migrant Farm Workers which is a follow-up to the panel on Migrant Farm
Workers in Spring 1995. It will be held on May 22, from 6-8pm in the
Library Presentation Room. The panelists for this quarter will be
interviewed also for a CD-Rom project being developed by Dr. Frank
Roberts on cultures of Washington State.
Coming next year
Because of the difficulties of having materials returned after
being checked out from our resource selections, the CEP is considering
instituting fines for books not returned at the scheduled time.
Remaining consistent with the library, we would charge $.30 for every
day overdue. We feel that our resources are equally as important as
those of Wilson library and desire to keep them available for student
use for many years to come.
Calendar of Upcoming Events...
Discussion Sessions (Held in Miller Hall 250)
- Monday, April 21 - 4:00pm
- Tuesday, April 22 - 1:00pm
- Thursday, April 24 - 12:00pm
- Monday, April 28 - 2:00pm
- Wednesday, April 30 - 10:00am
- Thursday, May 1 - 2:00pm
- Tuesday, May 6 - 10:00am
- Thursday, May 8 - 11:00am
Voices Panel
- Topic: Education and Migrant Farm Workers
- May 22nd
- 6-8:00 p.m.
- Wilson Library Presentation Room
What Else is New?
Dr. Frank Roberts-a faculty member in the Instructional Technology
Program Area- has been working on a CD-Rom addressing the cultures of
Washington State. It will be available in the CEP when it is finished,
but it is projected as a two-year project. Students using the CD will
be able to view information, video clips and recorded interviews,
panel presentations, graphics and many other interesting things on the
program.
NEW BOOKS this quarter!
- A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry
- Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol
- Battling Bias: The struggle for Identity and Community on
College Campuses Ruth Sidel
- Just Like Martin Ossie Davis
- love flute Paul Goble
- The State of America's Children Yearbook 1996 The Children's
Defense Fund
- The Year They Walked Beatrice Siegel
Through the Mail...
Soon to be available in the CEP is a compilation, put together by one
of our staff members, of various free and inexpensive resources that
are available through the mail. Many of the resources were located
through teaching magazines and other information that is sent to us,
so we are making it available to you the teacher. This informational
packet concerns multi-cultural resources that are meant for use in the
classroom. Feel free to come in and pick up your own personal copy of
this in our office as soon as it has been completed.
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