In the continuing effort at popularizing my blog, I have begun the process of subscribing to others with similar emphasis. We’ll see if it works. Here is a comment I posted on another blog this morning. Enjoy! Listen ~ The move toward diversity is a business imperative. As the world shrinks and your market-population becomes [...]
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WHY IS DIVERSITY SO IMPORTANT????
Posted in diversity, education, higher education, students on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Self-Identity & Academic Success: Diversity
Posted in African American, Black, chief diversity officer, Cultural Identity, diversity, Diversity- In Reality, education, higher education, inclusive excellence, multicultural, Success, Uncategorized, tagged African American, Cultural Identity, diversity, education, multicultural, race and ethnicity, Self Identity on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The coyote knew full well that despite his best efforts and the strongest ACME (sp) product available to him, there was no way he would ever catch the fleeting road-runner. An anvil would crush him, he would fall into a deep chasm, or if all failed – they would go to commercial. He knew it. His wife knew it. [...]
Male AA Success at Predominantly White Institutions
Posted in African American, Black, diversity, higher education, inclusive excellence, multicultural, students, Success, tagged African American, diversity, inclusive excellence, multicultural, multiculturalism, Success on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Results indicated that successful male AA students;
a. found/created social enclaves within the environment of the university,
b. only engaged with the university to get specific needs satisfied,
c. retained very close ties with their home environment (parents and/or friends),
d. suggested that they saw themselves as representatives of friends, family, or cultural group that did not have that opportunity, and
e. were committed to a sense of deferred gratification – each was going through current discomfort for a better tomorrow.
Inclusive Excellence: The Prologue – Revisited
Posted in African American, Black, chief diversity officer, diversity, education, higher education, inclusive excellence, Success, tagged African American, Business, diversity, education, Success on March 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is the script of a presentation to the 2010 Diversity Forum carded for March 29 – 31st at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Let’s Talk Business – Diversity Issues
Posted in diversity, education, higher education, inclusive excellence, tagged University on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Universities are businesses. They work on a business model. They gloat about their endowments. They gloat about their alumni. They do not bring you in unless you have one or two grants attached to your butt. They are businesses. This is not about social activism, and social change, and social responsibility. If you are proposing a change to what we do, then demonstrate how your proposal will add to the profitability and recognition of our university. This is a business.
Inclusive Excellence IV-1: The Plan
Posted in diversity, education, higher education, inclusive excellence, tagged chief diversity officer, education, inclusive excellence, multicultural director on February 28, 2010 | 11 Comments »
The concept of Inclusive Excellence (IE) suggests that you are trying to have your university or college be more inviting or inclusive to a wider variety of social and ethnic groups while retaining a high level of academic challenge. This is the fifth in a series of papers that are designed to respond to this very issue of Inclusive Excellence. If read in sequence, these papers aim to guide you toward that goal of Inclusive Excellence.
Say “hello” to the billion dollar industry of football and basketball.
Posted in African American, Black, education, higher education, Success on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Although the number of under-academically prepared white students is probably much higher, the percentages are much lower. If we have twenty out of one-hundred AA students under-prepared, that is a much higher percentage than the three hundred out of ten thousand white students.
