Resources for Deans, Department Heads and Chairs January 9, 2014

1. Resources for Deans, Department Heads and Chairs January 9, 2014

2. Objectives for today • Gain clear understanding of the Office of Diversity as a campus resource • Engage in dialogue-based activities to: • enhance awareness of diversity related resources available to faculty, staff, and students on campus • experience pedagogical techniques based on valuing process & content, and active & engaged learning

3. Campus Role • Provide support and consultation related to: • Achievement of campus goals in A Mosaic for UIC Transformation (available at Diversity.UIC.edu) • Development of curriculum and co-curricular programs

4. Resources • UIC Dialogue Initiative • Chancellor’s Committees on the status of • Asian Americans • Blacks • Latinos • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer People and Allies • Persons with Disabilities • Women • Other committees: • Diversity Committee Chairpersons (DCC) • Provost’s Diversity Advisory Committee (DAC) • Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change

5. Six unique centers with distinct histories, missions and locations African-American Cultural Center Asian American Resource and Cutural Center Disability Resource Center Gender and Sexuality Center Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center Women's Leadership and Resource Center

6. Collaborative Projects

7. Opportunities for Partnership • Cultural and educational programs that expand understanding of issues and assetsacross communities. • Collaborations using art-based processes, storytellingand civic dialogue. • Sites for student internships and applied research. • Engagement with the city through community partnerships.

8. Opportunities for Partnership • Classroom presentations on cultural identities and various social issues. • Public programs included in syllabi to advance class discussions. • Opportunities for engagement with the city through the Centers’ long-standing, reciprocal community partnerships.

9. Services • Providing Accommodations • Deaf/Hard of Hearing Resources • Test Proctoring • U.S. Disability Policies

10. Services • Advocacy • Academic accommodations and criminal, university administrative and civil options • Assistance with orders of protection or no contact orders • Title IX

11. UIC Dialogue Initiative • Partnership between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs • Dialogue education: • Face-to-face learning experience over a sustained period of time, in which participants from various social identity groups (gender, race, etc.) explore difference and find ways to work collaboratively toward a more equitable society (Zuñiga, Nagda, & Sevig, 2002; Zuñiga, Nagda, Chesler, & Cytron-Walker, 2007) • Offerings as credit-bearing courses, co-curricular programs, and workshops for students, staff, and faculty • Outcomes

12. Core Features of the Dialogic Approach • Pedagogical techniques heavily based on: • Interactive and experiential exercises • Active and engaged learning • Equally valuing process and content in curricular/co-curricular design • 3. Expertise in group facilitation and group dynamics • 4. Comfort in working through conflict and sensitive topics • 5. Promote development of identity awareness

13. Who is at your table? • Introduce yourself with • Name • Department • Finish this sentence – “If you knew me outside of UIC, you would know that...

14. Scenario Dialogue

15. Reflection

16. DISCUSSION FACILITATORS PRESENTERS CharuThakral – “Diversity and UIC Dialogues Initiative” Megan Carney – “Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change” Rebecca Gordon – “Campus Advocacy Network” Rosa Cabrera – “Reflection on Dialogic Exercise” • Lori Baptista, African American Cultural Center • Rosa Cabrera, Rafael Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center • Megan Carney, Gender and Sexuality Center • Rebecca Gordon, Women’s Leadership and Resource Center • Kristy Kambanis, Office of Diversity • CharuThakral, Office of Diversity • Philip Vasquez, Office of Student Development Services • Steve Whitley, Office of the Vice Provost for Planning and Programs

17. We look forward to working with you.