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Dartmouth has a charter commitment and a proud tradition of open access for
all. We need to live up to that tradition and ensure that we not only provide
equal access for all qualified students but that we also encourage a climate at
the College that is open and accepting of difference. An academic community can
afford to be no less than this.
We hope that the programs and outreach we offer enable our community to
achieve this vision.
Training
& Educational Programs Winter 2008 Update
IDE provides a range of workshops, presentations, discussions and other
activities designed to explore diversity and promote fairness, respect and
excellence in our working and learning environments. We invite you to review
these programs and request that we work in partnership with you to bring one
(or more!) to your group, office or organization.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Each year the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity, together with
the Office of Conferences and Special Events, arranges a series of events to
celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program theme
varies each year, but we are always trying to explore what we learn in our
society and what shapes us as we negotiate the diverse world that surrounds us.
Throughout our celebration, we attempt to acknowledge a number of very powerful
and competing dynamics in US history; some of them affirm our humanity, some
detract from it. A campus that values difference and that supports diversity is
a campus that encourages its members to explore the complexities that are
central to intellectual life, and it our hope that the annual MLK celebration
enables us to better engage is this kind of exploration.
This ongoing campus project seeks to educate and empower our community
to understand and address socio-economic difference as an important element of
diversity in our lives and institution. It is jointly coordinated by the Office
of Institutional Diversity & Equity, the Office of Pluralism &
Leadership, and the Tucker Foundation.
How To . . . Strategies and Approaches for Cultural Competency
This new resource is designed to provide some helpful ideas about how to
address opportunities and challenges related to cultural diversity, difference,
and inclusivity. We are eager to hear from you about situations and topics we
might target for future "How To" installments.
Current Installments:
Responding to Questions of Cultural Insensitivity
Talking
with Teachers (and other adults in our children's lives)
Be Curious, Not
Invasive
Community Outreach Initiative
Working with campus partners, IDE is in initial stages of developing a
platform for providing diversity-related training, programs, resources, and
referral to Upper Valley schools, civic organizations, and other community
entities. If you would like to participate in helping us develop this
initiative, or if you are involved in related endeavors and are willing to
consult with us, please contact Byron Breese
Religious Holidays 2007
Interfaith Calendar provides a listing of major religious
holidays that may be helpful to those who plan activities and events on
campus. Additionally, we hope it is helpful in providing a context within which
religious observance more generally might be understood.
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