University of Maryland Resources

• University of Maryland Libraries: Adaptive Technology Room
  
  
• Provost's Conversations on Diversity, Democracy, and Higher Education
  
  
• Diversity: Selected Print Materials Available Through the University of Maryland 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.

• Diversity: Selected Videos

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.

• Diversity Timeline
• Diversity Web

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.

• Campus Disability Reports, Recommendations and Resources
1. Disability Support Services

2. President's Commission on Disability Issues

3. Reasonable Accommodations: A Campus Guide to Accessibility

4. Reasonable Accommodations: Important Phone Numbers

5. Report and Recommendations of the President's Diversity Panel
   (August 15, 2000)

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.
6. Response to Diversity Panel Recommendations

(October 31, 2000) President C.D. Mote, Jr.
• Equity Council

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.

• 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.
  

• The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education
• The Office of Human Relations
• Diversity and Affirmative Action Initiatives

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.




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