This blog challenges you guys to really think about all that we’ve done and worked on to this moment – issues of diversity, race, the effect of media on self-identity, the disparity in incarceration rates, readings from The House on Mongo Street, and difficulties that the mentally and physically challenged face on a daily basis [...]
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HI 404-016 #5: Locus of Control
Posted in disproportionality, education, Locus of Control, Poverty, prison, students on February 18, 2011 | 29 Comments »
WHY IS DIVERSITY SO IMPORTANT????
Posted in diversity, education, higher education, students on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
50% Suspensions: It Happened When I was Asleep…Honest!!
Posted in African American, Black, diversity, education, students, Success on November 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
So we make the central focus of our intervention – suspensions. Boy that’s stupid! And, let’s just think of this for a second: You have half of your school suspended? You mean that (a) somebody has to point that out to you, and (b) you still have a job? Hmm! If we follow that logic, [...]
The Remaking of a City: Oshkosh Wisconsin – Revised/Updated
Posted in African American, diversity, education, marketing, Oshkosh, Poverty, students, Uncategorized, University, tagged diversity, dr. al felice, Oshkosh on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sub-Head: Diversity and Disproportionality Report – Nov. 2010 The 1927 Oshkosh, Northwestern describes; “There were no slaves or other negroes in the county, no deaf and dumb, blind or insane persons, and no idiots.” From the time Morris Firman established his first sawmill (1847), through its dramatic development as the primary source of [...]
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.
Unless…
Posted in diversity, education, inclusive excellence, multicultural, students, tagged diversity, education, higher education, inclusive excellence, multicultural, multiculturalism, race on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Unless we come to grips with the fact that education has shifted from a process of learning to a process of readying for employment…we will continue to struggle.
Until we make a concerted effort to search for competence (if we know how to define and recognize it) rather than comfort (to make us feel safe)…we will continue to struggle.
