Diversity Partners
 
MISSION
The Center promotes a dynamic multicultural academic environment through policy initiatives, public forums, curriculum and faculty development, student empowerment, and community-based internships. The Center also supports intellectual diversity which can best be achieved by recruiting and supporting underrepresented women, and protected racial and ethnic populations in the administration, faculty and among the student body.
 
 
BACKGROUND

Founded in 1994 as an outgrowth of years of intense antiracist andantibigotry activities, curriculum reform, and policy innovationsby students, faculty, and administrators, the Center strives to create model transformative programs and diversity initiativesfor Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, the local community, and other urban institutions of higher education.
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INITIATIVES

Diversity Council

Initiated by the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies in 1999 and directed by Brooklyn College President Christoph M. Kimmich, the council reviews and proposes diversity policies. Members of the council include the president and Faculty Council, the chairperson of the Professional Staff Congress, the dean of undergraduate studies, the dean of graduate studies and research, the president of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, and the chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies.

CUNY Affirmative Action Committee (UAAC) (Professor Joseph Wilson, appointed by the Chancellery)
CUNY Diversity Fund (Proposal initiated by the Center)
CUNY Diversity Research Grants (Professor Joseph Wilson, Chairperson)
Brooklyn College Multicultural Curriculum Guide
Brooklyn College Community Partnership Collaborations:

BC Multicultural Internships

ERIS Program: Mentoring, tutoring and student support services

Inter departmental courses: community fieldwork, research, and independent study courses in Africana Studies, Anthropology Judaic Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and other departments

Cross-listing departmental community fieldwork, research, and independent study course in Africana studies, anthropology and archaeology, Judaic studies, political science, psychology, Puerto Rican and Latina studies, sociology, women’s studies, and other departments.
 

 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
 
 
 
 
Director: Joseph Wilson, Professor of Political Science
Internship Director: Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science
ERIS Director: Noel Anderson, Associate Professor of Political Science
George Cunningham, Professor/Chair of Africana Studies
Milga Morales, Dean, Student Life
Jennifer Rubain Esq., Director, Affirmative Action, Compliance, and Diversity
 
STEERING COMMITTEE
Coordinator, Services for Studies with Disabilities Program
Sau-fong Au, Director, Women’s Center
Ken Forsh, Director International Students Office
Michael Hewitt, Director of Human Resources
Bonnie Impagliazzo, Director, Government Relations
Anthony Nadal, Latino Faculty and Staff Association, Professor/Chair, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies    
 
Mojubaolu Okome, Women’s Studies,Professor of Political Science 
Thierry Saintine, Office Administrator
Peter Weston, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Professor of Psychology
Donna Wilson, Dean, Undergraduate Studies
 
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COMPONENTS
 
Brooklyn College Diversity Plan

Created by the center’s Executive Committee, the Diversity Plan establishes objectives and policies encouraging faculty, administrative, student, and community diversity and interaction.
 
Multicultural Internship Office
Established a faculty network
Creates links between Brooklyn College and the diverse communities of Brooklyn
 
Fosters synergies between community-oriented students, faculty, administrators, and programs.
 
  Builds models for urban community service.
Develops curricula in academic departments to help serve community needs and orient students toward public service.
 
Holds seminars and conferences
Works with community institutions, high schools, hospitals, museums, elected officials, and community-based organizations.
 
Offers internships with New York City government, New York City government, New York State Assembly, and the federal government.
 
 
COMPONENTS CONTINUED...

Multiicultural Curriculum and Faculty Initiatives
Fosters curriculum development, including global and multicultural perspectives that prepare students to succeed in diverse community and world.
 
Organizes Faculty Day presentations.
Promotes interdisciplinary, interdepartmental collaboration, scholarship, and faculty development workshops and conferences.
 
Assists in the recruitment, retention, and mentoring of faculty from underrepresented groups.
 
Manages an interdepartmental group of junior and senior faculty members who share their professional, research and teaching interests and experiences.
 
 
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 Participants include the provost, deans, and faculty members from various   department
 
Aids in sponsored/participatory faculty research and publications, including:
 
 
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 Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, et al (Indiana University Press, 2003)
 
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 Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island, by Lynda Rose Day (Empire State Books, 1997)
 
 
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 People, Power, and Politics, 8th edition
Belle Zeller Committee Professorships
 
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 David Addams
 
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 Juan González
 
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 Gerald Horne
  - Stanley Nelson (filmmaker)/McArther Fellow
  - Gena Rae McNeil (historian/author of bio of Charles Hamilton Houston)
  - David Addams Esq: Civil Rights activist
   
   

 
SUPPORT

New York City Council, Higher Education Committee

Brooklyn Borough President’s Office

Brooklyn College Foundation

Brooklyn College President’s Office
 
 
 
 
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