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Mission Statement
The Libraries' Diversity Team exists to implement the campus' Diversity Initiative in the libraries and on campus. It is essential to recognize, respect, and promote each individual's uniqueness within the larger and more important context of our shared experience as human beings. The Team is dedicated to staff and patron education to increase diversity awareness and positive change in the library environment.
Vision Statement
The Diversity Team leads the UM Libraries' faculty, staff and students in fostering a positive and collaborative environment that promotes excellence in quality of service to the University Community. This will be accomplished by:
- Promoting diversity issues;
- Embracing change in the Libraries and in the broader community;
- Providing diversity information resources;
- Creating a climate where all are valued, respected and encouraged to reach their full potential through mentoring and showing the way.
Diversity Initiative
The Diversity Initiative serves as the core element that:
- Improves, creates, builds and advances the diverse atmosphere, environment, or climate of the organization
- Promotes awareness and tolerance by keeping people informed
- Monitors change
- Provides outreach and education
- Creates an awareness that diversity has the power to transform the individual, the group or team, and the organization
- Communicates the importance of valuing human life and the contributions that indivduals make to the organization and to society
ALA statement and policy on Inclusiveness and Mutual Respect adopted by ALA Council on Tuesday, June 28, 2005.
Presentation: “Stopping Genocide in Darfur: What You Can Do": An Informative Briefing by John Prendergast, Author and Human Rights Activist Mr. Prendergast is the co-chair of the Enough Project , founded in 2006 to promote peace and help end genocide and crimes against humanity. He has worked on crises in Africa for over twenty years, especially as the Director of African Affairs for the National Security Council (1996-1999), and as a Special Advisor to the Department of State (1999-2001). Mr. Prendergast co-authored his most recent book with actor Don Cheadle, Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond (2007). When: All are welcome at 7 PM, Wednesday, April 23.
Annotated Reading List prepared by Otis and Marie Chadley, UM Libraries
Roya Hakakian, Yale University Fellow
Acclaimed writer, poet, and activist, Ms. Hakakian is the author of “Journey from the Land of No” (2004), the memoir of her life growing up Jewish in post-revolutionary Iran.
Join us at 12 noon, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. The event will be in the Multipurpose Room of the Nyumburu Cultural Center.
Lunch will be served.
Annotated Reading List prepared by Otis and Marie Chadley, UM Libraries
"Dispatch From The Front Lines of The Affirmative Action War" Annotated Reading List prepared by Otis and Marie Chadley, UM Libraries
Jeffrey McCune, Jr., University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and American Studies
With interests in critical race/gender/sexuality theory, masculinities, whiteness studies, and 20th-century African American literature and culture, Professor McCune’s latest work examines the intersection of race and sexuality.
Join us at 12 noon, Thursday, March 6, 2008.
The event will be in the Multipurpose Room of the Nyumburu Cultural Center.
Annotated Reading List prepared by Otis and Marie Chadley, UM LibrariesMinutes
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University Resources
Where: The event will be in the Hoff Theater, located in the Stamp Student Union.
A Conversation with Roya Hakakian
PETER SCHMIDT
Senior Writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Nyumburu Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room
12:00 PM (Noon)
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A Conversation with Jeffrey McCune, Jr.
A Conversation with George Chauncey
*This event is Co-Sponsored with the Office of LGBT Equity and the Program in LGBT Studies
George Chauncey, Yale University - Professor of History
Scholar of 20th century U.S. history and lesbian and gay history, Professor Chauncey is the award winning author of “Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940” (1994) and “Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality” (2004).
Join us at 4:00 pm, Thursday, February 21, 2008. The event will be in the Multipurpose Room of the Nyumburu Cultural Center. Refreshments will be served.
Presentation: "From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: A History of Sexual Identity/Politics"
Annotated Reading List prepared by Otis and Marie Chadley, UM Libraries
- A brief list on various diversity issues which includes multiculturalism, race/racism, diversity in the workplace, diversity (general), religion, age issues, gay/bisexual/lesbian issues, gender issues, and disability.
- A listing of selected diversity-related videos, organized by subject category, that may be obtained and viewed at Nonprint Media Services on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
- An interactive resource hub for diversity matters in higher education organized around seven Campus Diversity Priorities: institutional vision, leadership and systemic change; student involvement and development; campus and community connections; research evaluation and impact; curriculum transformation; faculty and staff involvement; policy and legal issues.
- Disability Support Services
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President's Commission on Disability Issues
- Reasonable Accommodations: A Campus Guide to Accessibility
- Reasonable Accommodations: Important Phone Numbers
- Report and Recommendations of the President's Diversity Panel
(August 15, 2000) - Response to Diversity Panel Recommendations
This report includes recommendations which are grouped into the categories of Physical Safety; Recruitment/Retention of Staff, Faculty, and Students of Underrepresented Groups; Making the University of Maryland a Center of Excellence for Scholarship on Diversity; Enhancing the Curriculum for Diversity; Restructuring the Equity System; and From Diversity to Community; Leadership.
(October 31, 2000) President C.D. Mote, Jr.
- The Equity Council serves as an advisory group to the President and leads in the development and articulation of affirmative action, desegregation, and grievance resolution policies and procedures for the UM campus.
Diversity Events / Libraries' Video Brown Bag Sessions
2008
LINKS
International & Multicultural Perspectives in Education
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Holocaust Remembrance 2007 and Genocides in our Times across the World: Displays at Shady Grove Library April 15 to May 15, 2007
By Katalin Fay Mouyal, Shady Grove Library
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Internet Resources: Diversity Web sources in higher education: Looking at our rich heritage. This article identifies Web sources with emphasis on sites that include institutional vision on diversity issues, recruitment of minority faculty, library organizations working to achieve diversity, and related issues. Courtsey of C&RL News, September 2000, Vol 61 No.8
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Thirty Years of Sisterhood.
On the US tour of a Japanese documentary film by Yamagami Chieko and Seyama Noriko, "Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women of the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan", Feb. 2006.
[PDF]THE EDUCATIONAL MISSION OF A PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
Enhance power of equity officers Establish a Multicultural Center for
Asian, Hispanic & Native American faculty, students and staff. ...
http:www.provost.umd.edu/MS_SelfStudy97/FormattedDocuments/AppendixH.pdf
Speech by James A. Banks (A Must Read) He is one of the founders of the National Association for Multicultural Education (Seattle, Washington) http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/SCPA/fowlercolloq2003bankspaper.html
Charles Fowler Colloquium: James A. Banks, presentation Dr. James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/SCPA/fowlercolloq2003bankspaper.html
The Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity
Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
The Consortium is an association of academic units and individual faculty on the University of Maryland campus whose mission is to promote, advance, and conduct research, scholarship, and faculty development that examines the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity with other dimensions of difference.
http://www.crge.umd.edu/
The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education
Director: Dr. Mary E. Cothran
http://www.omse.umd.edu/
The Office of Human Relations
Executive Director: Dr. Christine Clark
http://www.ohrp.umd.edu/
University System of Maryland Diversity Network
The 13-institution University System of Maryland Diversity Network was established in 1995 to serve as a catalyst to promote a greater awareness of and appreciation for diversity. Today, the Diversity Network works collaboratively with the administration of the USM institutions to meet the increasingly difficult challenges of a diverse world.
Diversity and Affirmative Action Initiatives
