DIVERSITY: A STATE OF EMERGENCY
Date: Friday, March 11, 2005
Time: 11:30 - 6pm
Location: Lang Cafeteria
Schedule
11:30-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:45 Introduction to “Diversity: State of Emergency” and Presentation by Dr. Barbara Emerson, Former Assistant Provost for Diversity at NSU
12:45- 2:30 Panel: “Diversity and Its Contexts: What is At Stake?”
Amit Rai, Florida State University, (formerly of Lang College)
“The Corporate University and the Discourse of Diversity”
Sam Anderson, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College, CUNY.
“The Politics of Access to Higher Education for Students of Color”
Jocelyn Liu, Lang College, Journalism and Writing
“The Challenge and Vision of Diversity”
Questions, Comments and Dialogue
Intermission 2:30- 2:40pm
First Session: 2:45-3:30pm
Two Workshops In Each Time Slot
Second Session: 3:30- 4:15pm
Two Workshops In Each Time Slot
Final Session: Student Solidarity Workshop 4:15- 5:00pm
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Action Workshops
Session One: 2:45-3:30pm
Workshop A:
Rethinking Bureaucracy: Maximizing Student Development and Achievement with Jim Fischer and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
This workshop will present a critical analysis of how the New School University Administration can work more collaboratively with New School students on student-sponsored events. We will answer the question: What is necessary to bring about the success and empowerment of students? What forms of bureaucracy are necessary and why is the process of securing space for student events so monitored and difficult? Where specifically do bureaucratic problems lie and how can they be addressed? In this workshop we will develop an action plan to be implemented within different areas of student services throughout the New School.
Workshop B:
Concentration Development: Creation of an Africana, Latino/a, Asian American and Queer Studies Program with
Gregory Tewksbury and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Currently, New School University does not offer a concentration in Africana, Latino/a, Asian American studies or Queer Studies. This workshop will brainstorm and create a strategy for bringing about the implementation of these programs at Eugene Lang College. We will take a critical and constructive look at what courses have been taught before in these areas and develop a plan of action to implement these programs within the university.
Session Two: 3:35- 4:15pm
Workshop A:
Race and Reality: Recruitment and Retention of Faculty Color with Jan Clausen and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Within the last two years Eugene Lang College has lost many full and part time faculty of color. Here we will discuss the role of support, tenure and faculty scholarship. We will create a plan of action different ways to recruit and retain faculty of color. For this workshop we will speak with students that are currently here. We will talk with faculty that have been recently recruited as well as faculty that have left the institution.
Session Two: 3:35- 4:15pm
Workshop B:
Increasing Multiracial Student Representation with Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Eugene Lang is located in one of the most diverse cities in the country yet, less then twenty percent of the Lang student body is made up of these different ethnicities. In this workshop we will pose the questions: What draws or repels inner city youth to Eugene Lang College? What social/economic/political factors compel or allow them to stay? What compels or necessitates their decisions to transfer or leave? What schools in New York are students of color being recruited from? We will strategize around different ways to increase the representation of Minority groups such as Black, Latino and Asian Americans within the college.
Closing Session
Student Solidarity: Building Community across Lines of Difference with Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Students need decision making power at Eugene Lang College and New School University. In this workshop, we will seek to empower ourselves as students and take decision making power into our own hands. We will collaborate with student groups already working in New School and Eugene Lang, including Moxie, Tikkun and Soul to create inter organization community projects that help strengthen our solidarity as students. These projects will help us to develop commonality across student and organizational lines.
Time: 11:30 - 6pm
Location: Lang Cafeteria
Schedule
11:30-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:45 Introduction to “Diversity: State of Emergency” and Presentation by Dr. Barbara Emerson, Former Assistant Provost for Diversity at NSU
12:45- 2:30 Panel: “Diversity and Its Contexts: What is At Stake?”
Amit Rai, Florida State University, (formerly of Lang College)
“The Corporate University and the Discourse of Diversity”
Sam Anderson, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College, CUNY.
“The Politics of Access to Higher Education for Students of Color”
Jocelyn Liu, Lang College, Journalism and Writing
“The Challenge and Vision of Diversity”
Questions, Comments and Dialogue
Intermission 2:30- 2:40pm
First Session: 2:45-3:30pm
Two Workshops In Each Time Slot
Second Session: 3:30- 4:15pm
Two Workshops In Each Time Slot
Final Session: Student Solidarity Workshop 4:15- 5:00pm
--------------------------------------------
Action Workshops
Session One: 2:45-3:30pm
Workshop A:
Rethinking Bureaucracy: Maximizing Student Development and Achievement with Jim Fischer and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
This workshop will present a critical analysis of how the New School University Administration can work more collaboratively with New School students on student-sponsored events. We will answer the question: What is necessary to bring about the success and empowerment of students? What forms of bureaucracy are necessary and why is the process of securing space for student events so monitored and difficult? Where specifically do bureaucratic problems lie and how can they be addressed? In this workshop we will develop an action plan to be implemented within different areas of student services throughout the New School.
Workshop B:
Concentration Development: Creation of an Africana, Latino/a, Asian American and Queer Studies Program with
Gregory Tewksbury and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Currently, New School University does not offer a concentration in Africana, Latino/a, Asian American studies or Queer Studies. This workshop will brainstorm and create a strategy for bringing about the implementation of these programs at Eugene Lang College. We will take a critical and constructive look at what courses have been taught before in these areas and develop a plan of action to implement these programs within the university.
Session Two: 3:35- 4:15pm
Workshop A:
Race and Reality: Recruitment and Retention of Faculty Color with Jan Clausen and Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Within the last two years Eugene Lang College has lost many full and part time faculty of color. Here we will discuss the role of support, tenure and faculty scholarship. We will create a plan of action different ways to recruit and retain faculty of color. For this workshop we will speak with students that are currently here. We will talk with faculty that have been recently recruited as well as faculty that have left the institution.
Session Two: 3:35- 4:15pm
Workshop B:
Increasing Multiracial Student Representation with Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Eugene Lang is located in one of the most diverse cities in the country yet, less then twenty percent of the Lang student body is made up of these different ethnicities. In this workshop we will pose the questions: What draws or repels inner city youth to Eugene Lang College? What social/economic/political factors compel or allow them to stay? What compels or necessitates their decisions to transfer or leave? What schools in New York are students of color being recruited from? We will strategize around different ways to increase the representation of Minority groups such as Black, Latino and Asian Americans within the college.
Closing Session
Student Solidarity: Building Community across Lines of Difference with Members of the Diversity in Practice Coalition
Students need decision making power at Eugene Lang College and New School University. In this workshop, we will seek to empower ourselves as students and take decision making power into our own hands. We will collaborate with student groups already working in New School and Eugene Lang, including Moxie, Tikkun and Soul to create inter organization community projects that help strengthen our solidarity as students. These projects will help us to develop commonality across student and organizational lines.
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