1)How does the program philosophy address cultural awareness and diversity? Describe the basic elements of this philosophy. My students are young so they are naturally curious about the people around them. The students attempt to formulate a sense of their own identity by defining what makes them different from everyone else. Students usually ask questions on characteristics they see such as skin color or hair.…
Diversity Statement Edi Hernandez In an ever growing college community that welcomes more and more diversity it is important to understand the different backgrounds and accept those differences in order to grow together. Diversity means being able to emphasize with someone and embrace that person for who they are and not judge but to broaden our understanding of what it means to live and experience life in all types of ways. In this position I will have to interact and hear a lot of different backgrounds from student that are seeking services from the TRiO SSS STEM programs on Aims’ campus.…
Supporting statement. Over the last 20 years my career has been dedicated to leading community development and diversity strategies across the public, private and voluntary sectors. I have worked as a senior leader and consultant both at a community and strategic level for a diverse range of communities in the UK, Europe and India. Having designed co-produced over 40 diversity programmes for national organisations I am well versed in the challenges of influencing impactful change across complex organisations and the public.…
Diversity is important where student and teachers are respectful of a lot of different background school have to be proactive. Everybody get to have diversity because of school. People…
Teaching children about race and diversity is an important and necessary life lesson not only because it molds the minds of future generations but because talking about race with children can help them see beyond race and the race of other children just as it can with children of different genders. Children can recognize the differences between themselves and another individual of a different race regardless if the conversation of race is present in their home. Children who are spoken to about race are more likely to see past the superficial differences between themselves and children of other races and seek more meaningful relationships based upon common interest rather than visual similarity. Discussions regarding race are an inevitability…
Diversity Thesis: Diversity thesis is the clear observation that not everybody agrees what the most important values are, or what obligations humans have to one another, or what actions moral law forbids. It explains the responsibilities of individual to each other. Dependency Thesis: Dependency Thesis is the very important of the two rules (Moral agents and culture groups). Also this is the process of validating of the moral obligation and values.…
Successful academic and professional study requires more than to surround oneself with diversity, but instead to be engulfed in it. Perhaps the most effective way to understand a person’s diversity is to understand how the intersectionality of their identities has formed their current world view. I grew up with divorced parents below the poverty line. My mom spent years at a time in jail, rehabilitation clinics, and group homes, while my father has battled alcoholism long before I was born, so my grandmother raised me. Arguably a subculture itself, poverty has significantly altered my world view.…
Essay #3 Diversity has always been a big part of my life. As shown in my resume, I have a dual citizenship of the United States and Japan. Also shown in my resume, is the environment I surround myself in, such as the Boy Scouts of America. These are a couple of features that shape who I am today, and who I will be in the future. When most people discover my mother was born in Japan and I am a first generation, Japanese-American they are surprised.…
Attention Catcher: What is Diversity? Diversity is a range of different things. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.…
I lead my life according to the belief that, success is a measure of our perceived reality. We are what we think, and in many socially oppressed communities, barriers toward living a whole, productive, successful life is beyond the grasp for many. Social justice acts as voice for communities held back by systems of oppression, and works to dismantle systems, allowing disadvantaged groups the opportunity to reach their most successful life. Given the opportunity to be chosen to represent the transgender community means to me, being accountable to oppressed communities, the transgender community of Oregon, and beyond. In the words of Walidah Imarisha of Portland State University's Black Studies Department, Oregon State University's Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department ,“It means doing your work in…
My organization, Mount Ida College, offers a variety of student programs from the “Office of Diversity and Inclusion,” which cultivate an environment for students, faculty, and staff to learn from all lifestyles by encouraging an exchange of ideas that support diversity and inclusion. In fact, there is an “Advising, Advocating, and Achieving” program designed to advocate and facilitate students who may be under-represented. Additionally, there is wide range of student organizations where students can attain personal growth outside of the classroom. These organizations range from Black Student Achievement Coalition (BSAC), Diverse Nations United (DNU), Volunteers in Action (VIA), to Queer Alliance (QA).…
It was seventh grade when I officially recognized what it was that made me feel so disconnected from the rest of my peers. This was during the time most kids were growing into their bodies and finding discomfort in how they viewed themselves. I fell into that category in a way many people can’t say they relate. The hatred I felt for my body sprung from something a bit different than the typical middle school bodily insecurities. I grew in the opposite direction from which I knew my gender was.…
For successful execution in innovation, diversity and inclusion are common design elements in five theories: absorptive capacity, actor-network, agency, attachment, and attribution theories. Through these five theories, I would like to share my thoughts about why diversity and inclusion are common elements in five theories, which make a huge difference in innovation. Here are the details: Absorptive capacity supports diversity and inclusion that recognizes the value of new knowledge, assimilates it, and uses it toward achieving innovation. In order to be innovate, we need to help our teams better absorb and use new knowledge to accomplish our innovative goals. Through diversity, absorptive capacity greatly impacts the ideas of technological…
“As for the beauty of nature is thy Himself, the beauty of mankind is tolerance itself”. Any man’s death diminishes me as a whole because of one reason- mankind. The increasing ‘globalization’ in the present world has heightened our awareness on the cultural coexistence. Sometimes, it seems too obvious to overlook the wide array of diversity around us thus, great wisdom is needed to keep us living side by side harmoniously throughout the garden of our life. The presence of ‘global village’ has brought the human race together despite the boundaries of demarcation disputes.…
During our lives, we are always taught that diversity is important. However, often we are never taught what diversity is and why it is important. Often, people think of diversity as different skin colors, different ethnicities. To me, diversity means different opinions, different values, and different cultures, not just skin color. If everyone thinks the same and does the same thing, no progress would ever be made.…