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Full-Time Faculty Diversity Workshop

Join us for a day of genuine effort to foster diversity, practical sessions, and safe dialogue among faculty at Azusa Pacific University. Explore insights and challenges in a safe environment.

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Full-Time Faculty Diversity Workshop

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  1. Full-Time Faculty Diversity Workshop January 21, 2009

  2. Purpose of the Day • What it is not… • Politically correct exercise to check off the box • Reaction to a lawsuit • Perfect fit for each person’s expectations • Complete or thorough solution to every need

  3. Purpose of the Day • What it is… • Genuine effort to move forward • Arises from our Christian faith orientation • Addressed to real needs identified by our students and faculty • Practical and applied content • Safe environment for dialogue • Interaction among faculty around diversity “Hear each other’s voice”

  4. Schedule for the Morning • Introduction: Framework for Focus on Diversity at APU • Diversity in the Classroom • Faculty Dialogue on Diversity

  5. Awareness, Knowledge, & Competencies • Raising awareness of the diversity issues challenging APU (perspectives of others) • Providing knowledge regarding key issues related to diversity • Developing competencies to provide education across lines of diversity

  6. Diversity “Events” • National flurry of campus diversity events • APU situations • “Diversity Fatigue” or “Catalytic Events” – Brenda Salter McNeil, PhD

  7. APU Initiatives • Imago Dei • Student Town Hall Meetings with the president • Faculty Diversity Roundtables with the president and acting provost • President’s Council Retreat on January 6 • Faculty and Staff Diversity Workshops

  8. Academic Vision 2016 • Azusa Pacific University scholars view creation as a reflection of God-honoring diversity, and draw upon the full spectrum of human knowledge and methods of inquiry developed across centuries. As an academic community, we examine our life together and determine the attributes, assumptions, and practices that promote or inhibit a full reflection of truth and life. (http://www.apu.edu/provost/vision/diversity/)

  9. Academic Vision 2016 • “Our policies and curriculum evidence this principle as does faculty recruitment, hiring, and development programs. Hallmarks of this commitment to a diverse community include sustained scholarly dialogue around difficult issues marked by respect, openness, civility, and active listening. Faculty members stand equipped to engage diverse learners and utilize pedagogical practices that support diversity.” (http://www.apu.edu/provost/vision/diversity/)

  10. Positional Statement on Diversity • We also believe that, because sin has marred each individual, Christ, in His great love chose to die on the cross for the sake of every person (I John 2:2; John 3:16) so that all may receive forgiveness for sin and be reconciled to God. Our pursuit of diversity involves fulfilling Christ’s command to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 19:19; Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27). We support a diverse university across lines of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, socioeconomic status, class, age, and ability. In submitting to the Lordship of Christ we seek to eliminate attitudes of superiority and failure to fulfill Christ’s charge to reach all peoples. (http://www.apu.edu/about/diversity/)

  11. Diversity in the Classroom • Faculty – Faculty & Faculty – Administration • Hiring • Retention • Faculty – Student Interactions • Curriculum • Worldview/Culture • Terminology • Examples • Student – Student Interactions

  12. Key Diversity Factors in the Classroom at APU • Race – Ethnicity • Gender • Religion

  13. Student Outcomes • Contemporary Reality We must prepare students to be interculturally competent for careers in a global society

  14. Census 2000 Question on Race

  15. Intermarriage Morphing

  16. Diversity at APU Student & F/T Faculty Data Office of Diversity Planning & Assessment Prepared by Debbie Gin, Director, Diversity Studies Source: Office of Institutional Research 2008 IPEDS Data (unless otherwise noted) http://www.apu.edu/ir/commondata/2009/

  17. DemographicsSource: 2007 American Community Survey(US Census Bureau)

  18. UG Students by Race/Ethnicity, Fall/Fall I, 2008

  19. Grad Students by Race/Ethnicity, Fall/Fall I, 2008

  20. CAPS Students by Race/Ethnicity, Fall/Fall I, 2008

  21. F/T Faculty by Race/Ethnicity, Fall/Fall I, 2008

  22. F/T Staff by Race/Ethnicity, Fall/Fall I, 2007

  23. Primary Religious Affiliation

  24. Understanding Others • Sympathy – connection to another’s feelings due to parallel experiences (projection) • Empathy – a choice to enter the perspective of another (respect for differences) • “Interpathy” – "an intentional cognitive envisioning and affective experiencing of another's thoughts and feelings, even though the thoughts rise from another process of knowing, the values grow from another frame of moral reasoning, and the feelings spring from another basis of assumptions." David Augsberger (1986) Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures, p.29

  25. “Interpathy” requires us to build a bridge from our world to enter the world of the other person

  26. Jon Wallace

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