Inclusive Campus
Tim’s Tips: Athletes for Gay Rights
Athletes for Gay Rights March 30, 2011 Inside Higher Education Hudson Taylor, who graduated last year from the University of Maryland at College Park, was a dominant force in college wrestling. He is a three-time All-American, tied for fifth in career pins in the all-time National Collegiate Athletic Association record books, and holds the school [...]
Tim’s Tips: Difficult Dialogues Initiative
Difficult Dialogues Initiative Difficult Dialogues is a program designed to promote academic freedom and religious, cultural, and political pluralism on college and university campuses in the United States. Currently, 16 institutions are implementing projects that address these issues. While all projects seek to prepare students to constructively engage with difficult and sensitive topics, the projects [...]
Tim’s Tips: Panel Suggests Ways to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Law Schools
March 28, 2011 Panel Suggests Ways to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Law Schools By Lauren Sieben The Chronicle of Higher Education Although black and Mexican-American students have applied to law school at steady rates since the early 1990s, their representation in law schools has decreased over the past 15 years. The proportion of [...]
Tim’s Tips: New White House Effort Urges College Leaders to Promote Interfaith Understanding
March 17, 2011 New White House Effort Urges College Leaders to Promote Interfaith Understanding By Tushar Rae The Chronicle of Higher Education The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships plans to announce today an effort to foster religious tolerance on college campuses by bringing together groups of all faiths to work on community-service [...]
Tim’s Tips: A Little Too Comfortable Mocking Asians
A Little Too Comfortable Mocking Asians March 18, 2011, 5:51 am Chronicle of Higher Education By Marybeth Gasman Most of us have heard about the young woman at UCLA who posted a video on YouTube that mocked Asian students. Alexandra Wallace made fun of Asian accents and language, saying “ching chong ling long ting tong.” Even [...]
Tim’s Tips: For Gay Students, More Room on Campuses
March 6, 2011 For Gay Students, More Room on Campuses After high-profile incidents, colleges improve resources, even as discrimination persists The Chronicle of Higher Education By Sara Lipka Kingston, R.I. On the ground floor of an unsought dormitory at the University of Rhode Island, in two conjoined rooms, dream catchers hang in a window, a [...]
Tim’s Tips: Making Excellence Inclusive
Making Excellence Inclusive: A Framework for Embedding Diversity and Inclusion into Colleges and Universities’ Academic Excellence Mission By Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Nancy O’Neill, Caryn McTighe Musil Over time, campus leaders have begun to understand that incorporating more diverse student populations, diversity in the curriculum, and other such efforts into campus life raises profound questions about [...]