Diversity and Culture

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Diversity and Culture
The unit designs, implements, and evaluates
curriculum and experiences for candidates to
acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and
dispositions necessary to help all students
learn.
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Culture and Diversity Expectations

• Four governing documents guide culture and
  diversity initiatives within COEHS
• UW System Plan 2008
• UW Oshkosh Governing Ideas
• COEHS Strategic Plan
• COEHS Conceptual Framework

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Conceptual FrameworkUnderstanding of Diversity

• Accurate, factual, authentic appreciation of
  constituents and their struggle for recognition,
  livelihood, and acceptance
• Willingness to critically analyze preconceptions,
  stereotypes, and prejudices
• Promote effective and empathetic interaction with
  members of diverse groups
• Awareness of the dynamics inherent in the
  interaction of different groups
• Sincere appreciation for interactions between
  groups
• Promotion of the celebration of community

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Conceptual FrameworkKnowledge of Culture

• Ideal for conduct - collective perceptions,
  beliefs, knowledge, customs, skills, arts,
  technologies, language and values - passed from
  one generation to another within an identifiable
  group
• Sets standards and expectations for behavior
• Determines views about social relationships
• Influences our interactions with nature and other
  species

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Knowledge of Culture (cont)

• Defines our ethics
• Molds our identity
• What and how we learn
• Defines acceptable procedures for new knowledge
  production
• Educators must understand effects of culture on
  students frames of reference and acknowledge how
  different types of cultures impact diverse
  students approaches to learning.

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Plan 2008 Educational Quality Through Racial and
Ethnic Diversity

• 7 Goals
• Goals outlined at UW System Level
• Goals further delineated at campus levels in UW
  Oshkosh Design for Diversity and Governing Ideas
• COEHS initiatives contribute to plan and are tied
  to Conceptual Framework Educator as Caring
  Intellectual

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Plan 2008 Goals
Student Recruitment

• Goal 1 Increase the number of Wisconsin high
  school graduates of color who apply, are
  accepted, and enroll at UW System institutions
• Goal 2 Encourage partnerships that build the
  educational pipeline by reaching children and
  their parents at an earlier age.

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Student Recruitment Initiatives

• Four community -based liaisons (Hispanic, African
  American, American Indian, and Asian American)
  were hired to serve as a network for recruiting
  students of color
• Admissions Office hired a full-time recruitment
  specialist who is African American
• COEHS faculty organized campus visits for 205
  English as a second language high school students
  from Northeast Wisconsin

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• Six pre-college programs designed for students of
  color are offered at UW Oshkosh (COEHS students
  participate in projects as mentors and support
  personnel)
• Anishinabe Teachers for Anishinabe Children
  Project (name change to Indian Teachers for
  Indian Children)
• Summer Mathematics and Reading Talent Scholars
• Pre-College Enrichment Program
• Young Entrepreneurial Scholars
• Wisconsin Youth in Nursing
• Distance Education for Summer Enrichment
  Opportunities
• UW Oshkosh Black Student Union hosts pre-college
  academic weekend campus visits

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Indian Teachers for Indian Children

• Ongoing since 1998, the project includes
• Week long pre-college summer sessions
• Three-day campus visits in fall
• Students complete UW Oshkosh application,
  financial aid forms, and Gates Millennium
  Scholarship Application
• Take ACT
• Visit classes with COEHS student hosts
• Stay in dorms
• 4 visits annually to each participating
  reservation area school by UW Oshkosh
  faculty/staff
• Teacher Training Sessions
• Cooperative Cultural Projects
• Hosted speaker on Treaty Rights and Mascots

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• UW Oshkosh hosts Asian, Hispanic, African
  American and Native American Student Leadership
  conference
• UW Oshkosh hosts United Students in Residence
  Halls High School Leadership Seminar and provides
  scholarships for students of color and their
  advisors to attend
• Hispanic students from Sunset High School in
  Dallas TX attend the COBAs Business Simulation
  competition and meet with representatives of
  COEHS and Division of Academic Support.
• 37 Students attended competition in both 1999
  2000

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• COEHS faculty and UW Oshkosh senior
  administrators have visited P-12 Milwaukee Public
  Schools to recruit students
• COEHS was represented at Urban Teacher World in
  Milwaukee
• UW Oshkosh attended local, national, and
  multicultural specialized college fairs, visited
  multicultural high schools, and sent letters and
  information packets to multicultural college
  seniors in WI, IL, MN
• The Graduate School attended National Black Grad
  Student Grad School Fair and American Minority
  Student Leadership Conference to recruit graduate
  students

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http//www.coehs.uwosh.edu/anishinabe/Ans_cmp_atv/
sum_participants.htm
Thirty-three students from seven tribal nations
who participated in the Anishinabe Program June
24-29, 2001
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Plan 2008 Goals
Retention/Graduation, Financial Aid

• Goal 3 Close the gap in educational
  achievement, by bringing retention and graduation
  rates for students of color in line with those of
  the student body as a whole.
• Goal 4 Increase the amount of financial aid
  available to eligible students and reduce their
  reliance on loans.

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Student Organizations Supporting Diverse Students

• Six student organizations
• American Indian Student Assoc.
• Asian Student Assoc.
• Black Student Union
• Hispanic Cultures United
• Hmong Student Union
• MEC Student Board
• Located in Multicultural Center

Rodrigo Vega, Co-President Hispanic Cultures
United
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Multicultural Education Center

• Multipurpose resource center
• Shanebrook Multicultural Library
• Student assistance programs
• Microcomputer Tutorial Laboratory
• Writing Assistance Program
• Math Skills Tutorial Program

http//www.uwosh.edu/acad-supp/mec/mec.html

• Chancellor has pledged 100,000 toward renovation
  of historic building which houses campus
  Multicultural Center

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Scholarships - COEHS

• Title VII Teachers and Bilingual Personnel Grant
  allowed the following enrollments
• 26 adult paraprofessionals (primarily Hmong)
• 40 inservice teachers seeking additional
  licensures
• Refugee Teacher Training Grants
• 1999-00 8 students (Southeast Asian)
• 2000-01 14 students
• 2001-02 11 students
• Minority Teacher Forgivable Loans
• 1998-99 15,026 9 students
• 1999-00 3,852 2 students
• 2000-01 10,135 9 students

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Scholarships UW Oshkosh

• Minority Honors Scholarships
• 1998-99 29,410 28 students
• 1999-00 23,400 23 students
• 2000-01 23,000 22 students
• includes Minority Freshman Achievement Awards
• Multicultural Achievement Awards
• 1998-99 1,250 10 students
• 1999-00 1.395 10 students
• 2000-01 2,750 6 students
• Assoc. Vice Chancellors Multicultural Awards
• 1998-99 32,500 6 students (Graduate Students)
• 1999-00 29,250 8 students
• 2000-01 59,058 7 students

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Scholarships UW System

• Lawton Grants
• 1998-99 107,779 74 students
• 1999-00 105,926 73 students
• 2000-01 119,867 73 students
• Talent Incentive Program
• (minorities or 1st Generation college students)
• 1998-99 137,847 115 students
• 1999-00 108,384 105 students
• 2000-01 149,270 96 students
• Advanced Opportunity Fellowship Program
• 1998-99 33,998 16 students
• 1999-00 31,000 9 students
• 2000-01 20,895 7 students

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Scholarships American Indian

• Bureau of Indian Affairs Grants
• 1998-99 65,564 21 students
• 1999-00 82,334 20 students
• 2000-01 68,965 20 students
• Wisconsin Native American Student Grant
• 1998-99 20,927 22 students
• 1999-00 19,845 20 students
• 2000-01 20,837 21 students

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Plan 2008 Goals
Faculty/Staff Diversity

• Goal 5 Increase the number of faculty, academic
  staff, classified staff and administrators of
  color, so that they are represented in the UW
  System workforce in proportion to their current
  availability in relevant job pools. In addition,
  work to increase their future availability as
  potential employees.

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Faculty Diversity

• Gender
• COEHS faculty/administrators, balanced
  representation (27 f, 24 m)
• COEHS new hires, 3 females
• COEHS chairs, 67 female (4 f, 2 m)
• University chairs, 38 female
• COEHS administrators 75 female (3 f, 1 m)
• Racial/Ethnic Diversity
• COEHS faculty/administrators, 10 persons of
  color (5/51)
• University faculty (administrators excluded) 9.4
  persons of color (33/351)

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Recruitment Efforts

• Affirmative Action Director hired
• Workshops on Affirmative Action offered
• All COEHS departments involved in searches met
  with Affirmative Action Director to discuss means
  for expanding pool of candidates from diverse
  backgrounds
• All faculty positions are advertised directly
  with
• Historically Black Colleges
• Hispanic-Serving Institutions
• Black Issues in Higher Education
• Hispanic Outlook
• Specialized professional organizations

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COEHS Sponsored Diversity Seminars/Lectures/Book
Groups

• Faculty seminar/ Faculty College
• Getting Beyond Race
• Education for Indigenous Learners
• Molefi Kete Asante
• Distinguished professor
• A Visit with Molefi Kete Asante video won Award
  of Merit in Wisconsin Assoc of Public,
  Education, and Government Channels competition
• Saturday morning reading group
• So Much to Say Adolescents, Bilingualism ELS
  in the Secondary School
• Pedagogy of Freedom Ethics, Democracy
  and Civic Courage

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Visiting Professors/Teachers

• COEHS has hosted/co-hosted visiting professors
  from
• Australia
• University of Thessaly, Greece
• University of Benin, Nigeria
• Siebold University, Nagasaki, Japan
• England
• COEHS supported the Teachers of Culture
  Internship Program. Teachers from Ghana spent
• One week at UW Oshkosh
• Two weeks in area schools

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International Collaboration

• Vander Putten International Fund sponsored COEHS
  faculty initiatives to establish cooperative
  relationships with
• University of Thessaly, Greece
• University of Benin, Nigeria
• Siebold University, Nagasaki, Japan
• University College Worcester, England
• University of London, England

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Graduate Assistants Bring Diversity

• Graduate Assistants frequently are international
  and/or minority students
• They interact with faculty and students sharing
  their world views, language, culture, customs,
  and experiences
• Employing graduate assistants supports their
  efforts in earning advanced degrees
• Some assistants decide to stay in the area
  further volunteering to serve as cooperating
  teachers

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Learning and Respect for Diversity
Plan 2008 Goals

• Goal 6 Foster institutional environments and
  course development that enhance learning and
  respect for racial and ethnic diversity.

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Human Relations Requirements

• 25 clock hours of direct leadership involvement
  with adult or pupil members from one or more of
  the following designated ethnic minority groups
• African-Americans
• American Indians
• Asian-Americans
• Hispanic Americans
• Pacific-Islander-Americans
• Foreign born persons of color
• 25 clock hours with physically, emotionally, or
  cognitively disabled persons

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Human Relations Assessment

• Admission I
• 25 hours completed
• Reflection on experience
• Development of plan to complete remaining hours
• Discussed during Oral Interview
• Admission II
• Completion of remaining 25 hours
• Reflection on experience
• Clinical Teaching Evaluation
• Self-assessment of Clinical Experience
• Program Completion
• Student Teaching Evaluation
• Self-assessment on Student Teaching
• Culture and Diversity Synthesis

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Urban Field Experiences

• Students may student teach in major metropolitan
  areas including
• Milwaukee
• Racine
• Kenosha
• Beloit
• (out of area fee waived)
• Students in early childhood, early literacy and
  ESL programs may select an urban clinical
  experience spending two weeks in Milwaukee
• Students in the Hmong Bilingual program may spend
  one week in the Twin Cities

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Community Field Experience

• Collaboration with 21st Century Learning Center
  programs for families from other language
  backgrounds in
• Oshkosh
• Menasha
• Appleton
• Green Bay
• Berlin

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International Field Experiences
Students can fulfill human relations hours by
joining faculty led study tours to

• Students can fulfill human relations hours by
  joining faculty lead study tours to
• Greece
• Belize
• Mexico
• Opportunities to student teach exist in
• Australia
• England
• Ireland
• New Zealand

http//dim-rachoul.lar.sch.gr
Bilingual Methods moves to Japan

• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales

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Field Experience Evaluation

• Lesson and Curriculum Unit Design specifically
  addresses culture and diversity
• Supervision Forms have been redesigned to
  specifically address culture and diversity
• Self-Assessment Tools have been redesigned to
  specifically address culture and diversity
• To encourage collaboration, meetings have been
  arranged with local school district personnel to
  discuss diversity concerns

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Campus Awareness Activities

• Sponsor four Heritage Months (Hispanic, Native
  American, African American, Asian American)
• Host Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration,
  Cinco de Mayo, and Holidays Around the World
• Taste of Oshkosh/Celebration of Cultures
• Residence Halls Diversity Committee sponsors
  candlelight vigil to commemorate victims of hate
  crimes
• Annual publication of Diversity magazine
• Sponsorship of a variety of performers,
  activists, poets, and speakers

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• Jeanette Elmer Trust is providing 5,000 per year
  to purchase library materials about American
  Indians appropriate for PK-12 student and teacher
  use
• First Year Experience featured Haitian American
  writer Edwige Danticats book Krik?Krak!
• 29 courses have been approved to meet General
  Education Ethnic Studies requirement
• English Departments offerings have been
  reorganized to make ethnically diverse literature
  visible and central

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COEHS Conference Sponsorship

• Annual Events
• UW Oshkosh Special Education Conference
• UW Oshkosh Language Culture and Education
  Institute
• Special Events
• Exploring Hmong History and Culture Workshop
• Gates Millennium Scholarship Conference for
  Educators of Native American students
• Teaching Mathematics to the Native American
  Student Workshop

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University Sponsored Activities

• Diversity Week Candlelight vigil to honor
  victims of hate crimes, essay contest, hall
  events
• Zuni Pueblo artists Alex Ken Seowtewa
• Tribal Elder in Residence Dorothy Davids
• Native American theatre group Alter/Natives
• Writer of Color in Residence Shara McCallum
• African American performance artist Renae McNeal
• Poetry series (African American Hispanic)
• Treaty Rights and Mascot Obligations lecture
• African American dance troupe
• Hmong American writer Houa Vue Moua
• Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat,
  Krik?Krak!
• American Indian storyteller Patti Lowe
• American Indian writer Paula Gunn Allen
• Author Jane Elliot on Blue Eyed

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Diversity Innovation Grants

• 12 grants totaling 27,443 were awarded in Spring
  2000
• Recruitment visits for minority language students
• Reservation high school math instruction
• Understanding Hmong America Twin Cities Field
  Experience
• Video acquisition on American ethnic groups and
  diversity
• Video taping Tribal Elder panel presentation
• Writers of color residency series
• Social Work reception to attract minority high
  school graduates
• Diversity speakers series Dr. Herman Blake
• Two-day orientation session for first-year
  experience program
• Multicultural peer mentoring
• Hispanics Obtain Partners in Education
• Department of Residence Life High School
  Leadership Seminar

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Community Awareness Activities

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
• Oshkosh Race Unity Picnic
• Campus and City of Oshkosh jointly organized
  Human Relations Council in 1989 to promote an
  environment supporting racial, ethnic, and
  cultural diversity. Task groups work on projects
  including
• Housing guidelines to eliminate discrimination
• Preparing Hmong residents for citizenship

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Accountability
Plan 2008 Goals

• Goal 7 Improve accountability of the UW System
  and its institutions.
• UW Oshkosh - Improve leadership and
  accountability in the implementation of this plan
• COEHS - Affirms and integrates Plan 2008 Goals
  which are consistent with NCATE 2000 Standards,
  DPIs Standards for Educators, SPA Standards, and
  COEHS Strategic Plan and Conceptual Framework

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COEHS Human Relations Committee

• Functions as the advisory council on cultural
  diversity examining issues, insights, and ideas
  related to diversity of staff, candidates, and
  field experiences.
• Makes recommendations to move the initial and
  advanced preparation programs forward
• Resources have been allocated to aggressively
  identify, recruit, and establish relationships
  with additional field experience sites

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UW Oshkosh Diversity Council

• Campus-wide committee charged with leading
  diversity efforts on campus.
• Margaret Genisio - Chair
• http//www.uwosh.edu/2008/home.html