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"What is Cultural Competency?:
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CC in Higher Education:
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MRG: The Eugene/Springfield & UO Multicultural Resource Guide

This highly-useful, award-winning guide was originally produced by the Library Diversity Committee and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

It is now in its second edition, updated and expanded by CoDaC.

The Multicultural Resource Guide contains campus and community organization listings, address and contact information under several diversity identity and service headings.

 

 


 

Cultural Competency - Higher Education and Beyond

This non-exhaustive list compiled in 2004-05 highlights various cultural competency initiatives and policies in various sectors.

Also included is a non-exclusive database of cultural competency initiatives underway at colleges and universities within UO's circles of comparison, including the Pacific 10 universities and members of the Association of American Universities.

 

 


 

Diversity Plans in Higher Education

This non-exhaustive database compiled in 2004-05 provides links to diversity planning efforts underway at colleges and universities within UO's circles of comparison, including the Pacific 10 universities and members of the Association of American Universities.

 

 


Diversity Scholars Directory

Looking for UO faculty members who teach courses on intergroup relations? Interested to locate UO graduate students whose research specializes in cultural competency in multicultural organizational development?

Find answers to these queries and more through our Diversity Scholars Directory.

The listings created by self-identified "Diversity Scholars" are sorted alphabetically, with information on diversity-related research, teaching, and/or service/outreach interests.

If you would like to be included in this directory, please take a moment to complete and return this survey.

 

 


CoDaC Resources - Videos and Publications

All materials listed below are available for checkout at the UO Knight Library (unless otherwise designated).

What is Cultural Competency? A Series of Conversations The proceedings from this 2-day conference in January 2006. Keynote address by Dr. Hazel Symonette, concurrent sessions exploring key issues of what cultural competency is and what it is its place in higher education. (8 DVD or VHS - approx. 90 minutes each)

Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Campus Climate - UO Students' Conversation with Lee Mun Wah In Fall 2005, 15 UO students gathered to discussed what cultual competence means to them as people preparing to live and work in a diverse and global society. Facilitated by Internationally acclaimed diversity educator and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah (The Color of Fear), the students spoke about their experiences in campus living and learning spaces, and of life in Oregon. (1 DVD or VHS - 42 minutes)

Campus Climate and Student Understandings of "Race" Recorded May 20, 2005 at the University of Oregon. This presentation follows up on the 2001 UO Campus Climate Survey and Assessment conducted by Dr. Susan Rankin (Senior Diversity Planning Analyst, The Pennsylvania State University). It provides new information about how UO students understand and experience social constructs such as "race," "ethnicity," and "diversity," and also catalogues specific student recommendations on enhancing campus climates for diversity. Researchers include UO faculty Holly Arrow, Ellen Scott, Jocelyn Hollander, and graduate researcher Chuck Tate. (1 DVD - 62 minutes)

Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration, and Labor in Post-9/11 North America Co-sponsored by CoDaC and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, this 2-day conference explores how the "9/11 Moment" forever changed the United States and the the cross-border regions of North America. Conference participants focus on how the "war on terrorism" and its attendant policies have affected communities of color, recent immigrants, refugees, and guest laborers in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Features keynote speaker journalist Roberto Lovato, plus panel presentations by cultural geographers, legal scholars, and labor and community leaders. (4 DVD or VHS - approx. 2 hours each)

CoDaC Graduate Research Conference Proceedings from the annual UO student conference, sponsored by CoDaC and the Graduate School. Student presentations are developed through graduate summer research awards provided by CoDaC and the Graduate School.

After Grutter: Affirmative Action & Our Compelling Interests in Diversity CoDaC's 2003 Oregon Summit is available on DVD and VHS. Includes keynote address by Hon. Paul J. DeMuniz, Oregon State Supreme Court; Experts' Panel on "The New Directions of Diversity after Grutter" and Leaders' Roundtable on "Why is Diversity a Compelling Interest?" Features leaders in Oregon's business, government, legal/judicial, educational and civic sectors. (5 hours)

The End of Affirmative Action? Diversity, Higher Education and Public Policy This March 2003 event brought together UO experts and state-level leaders to outline the contours of the landmark University of Michigan affirmative action cases to be heard later that Spring.

Voices of the Ducks: Campus Climate, Community and the Broadcast Media In December 2002, campus leaders and community members gathered for this panel discussion and facilitated forum on legal, policy and economic issues involved in "hate radio" programming. (1 hour, VHS)

Oregon Summit Handbook An edited companion piece to CoDaC's 2003 Oregon Summit. Provides a useful teaching supplement on the University of Michigan cases, affirmative action in higher education and related diversity issues. Includes up-to-date scholarship, critical essays, policy papers and reports, court filings, legal opinions and news commentaries. Oregon Summit 2003 - "After Grutter: Affirmative Action and Our Compelling Interests in Diversity"

Facilitator Training Manual Developed in conjunction with UO students and organized by CoDaC and the University Counseling and Testing Center. The Facilitator Training Manual provides concise but detailed overviews, lecturettes, guides, exercises, teaching tools, resources, and bibliographies for diversity dialogue facilitation. Includes focus on personal awareness, knowledge and skill-building on cross-cultural communication, identity formation and handling conflict. (Not available for library checkout).

 

 


 

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