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UNL Diversity Enhancement Projects
1998-1999
In 1999, UNL reallocated funds to support UNL's diversity initiatives. A portion of the reallocated funds was earmarked for pilot projects and activities on campus aimed at enhancing diversity. The following projects were selected by a subcommittee of the Faculty Liaison Task Force on Diversity to be supported by Diversity Enhancement Funds in the spring semester of 1999. The following has a brief description of each project and a contact person if you would like additional information. Although only one person is listed as the contact, many people were involved in most of these projects.
The Artist Diversity Residency Program, now in its fifth year, brings to Nebraska artists representing diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds to share their cultural insights with the UNL community. To make the program more widely available, the following enhancements are being funded:
• web site development, making two artists (Flo Oy Wong and Louise Robinson) accessible to students, faculty and staff and providing a forum for interaction with the artists
• video production to prepare groups for the two artists' visits;
• collaboration with Pathways to Harmony program for managerial, professional, and staff development, providing workshops and presentations;
• collaboration with residential learning communities to extend the program into non-classroom settings for students, providing presentations;
• collaboration with Multi-cultural affairs and the Summer Institute for Promising Scholars, bringing an artist in for one week of interaction in June 1999;
• collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Center, providing a series of four presentations for faculty on diversity in the classroom.
Contact: Ron Bowlin
The Voices of the People Dialogue Series, a series of monthly dialogues open to the UNL community on diversity and ethnic relations with invited speakers and panels organized by the Office of Student Involvement, will focus on the following topics:
January 27 - Martin Luther King and his legacy
February 8 - Media images of people of color
February 18 - Film "Skin Deep," discussion organized by the Athletic Department
March 3 - Institutional racism
March 30 - Crossing cultural boundaries
April 13 - Diversity day - a celebration
Contact: William Olubodun
The No Limits Conference: Feminism Speaks, a regional Women's Studies conference sponsored by the UNL Women's Studies Program and the Women's Studies Association, to be held on March 5-6. The keynote speaker will be poet and author Judith Ortiz Cover, the author of several books, including The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry and Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood.
Contact: Barbara diBernard
The Lied Center is presenting Junebug/Jack in two public performances and a week of outreach activities. Diversity enhancement funds will help to extend the residency to include a free mini-performance on June 19 for students, faculty and staff as part of UNL's celebration of Martin Luther King Day. The play, developed collaboratively to explore rural southern African-American and Appalachian experiences, blends stories and songs from these two cultures to look at their struggles and celebrate their survival.
Contact: Charles Bethea
A symposium series sponsored by the Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic Studies and three student organizations, will include nationally prominent speakers and actively involve faculty and students as presenters, panelists, and participants. Four sessions will include: on January 21, a presentation of research exploring the intersection between competing personal identities and societal labels; on February 25, a forum, co-sponsored by the Teachers College and the Teaching and Learning Center, on integrating sexual orientation issues into curricula and dealing with homophobia in the classroom; on March 24, Suzanne Pharr, author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, co-sponsored by the Human Rights/Human Diversity Area of Strength, will speak on the origins of racism, sexism and homophobia and the ways communities can respond to discrimination; in April, a lecture by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser, author of Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Committee.
Contact: George Wolf
Becoming an Ally to Students of Color without being a Person of Color, a collaborative effort among academic and student affairs units, will entail a two day workshop with small group sessions to be held on both UNL campuses, designed to address issues related to the campus climate for students of color.
Contact: Benita Douglas
Enhancement of Native American Cultural Awareness, Recruitment, and Retention, sponsored by Native American Studies proposes a network of activities that will provide a structure to the University's efforts to recruit and retain Native American students and to allow both Native American and non-Native American students to acknowledge and appreciate Nebraska's indigenous cultures.
Contact: Cynthia Willis Esqueda
A research project, What do we Know? Examining Ethnic and Gender Biases of University Faculty and Students, will be conducted by faculty in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and will reach faculty and students from a minimum of five departments from several colleges across campus, and students from introductory and senior level courses. Information will be analyzed and used to address climate issues at UNL.
Contact: Julia Torquati
Teaching for Inclusion and Diversity is a manual being produced by the Teaching and Learning Center, in collaboration with faculty and students, to address issues of classroom and campus climate. The first section will provide a rationale for teaching for inclusion and diversity, thoughts on academic culture and diversity issues for instructors, and strategies for inclusive teaching. The second part provides group profiles of students at UNL. The appendix will include demographic information about UNL, a listing of campus resources, Lincoln community resources, and pertinent UNL policies and procedures. The manual will be distributed in conjunction with a series of faculty workshops/book discussions to be held in 1999-2000.
Contact: Delivee Wright
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