Diversity and Inclusion
CHES COMMITTEE
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Capstone Creed
“As a member of The University of Alabama community, I will pursue knowledge; act with fairness, integrity and respect; promote equity and inclusion; foster individual and civic responsibility; and strive for excellence in all I do.”
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Who we are - CDI College Representatives
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Dr. Jeri Zemke
CDI Member Health Science- Athletic Training jzemke@ua.edu |
Who we are - Student Representatives
What we believe:
We understand that diversity work is complex and encompasses
a lot of issues. Here’s how we understand some key concepts:
a lot of issues. Here’s how we understand some key concepts:
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Ally: The ACT of standing up in support for members of social identity groups that are not your own (University of Houston).
Gender Identity vs. Gender Expression: Gender Identity is the personal conception of ones own sense of gender, how they internally feel about their own gender. Gender Expression is the external and public presentation of ones gender (Ontario Human Rights Commission).
Source: https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/
Intersectionality: the overlapping or intersecting social identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age) and related systems of oppression that makeup experiences for marginalized groups that cannot be understood separately (Crenshaw, 1991).
Internalized Racism: Occurs at the individual level. It includes an acceptance by members of the stigmatized racial groups of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth. It involves accepting limitations to one’s own full humanity (Jones, 2000).
Interpersonal Racism: Occurs at the relationship level. It includes the expression of racism between individuals. This is the most commonly understood type of racism. Racist expressions at this level may be intentional or unintentional.
(Jones, 2000)
Institutional Racism: Occurs at the community level. It includes discrimination and unfair policies that advantage and disadvantage people based on race within and between institutions (Jones, 2000).
Structural Racism: Occurs at the societal level. It includes 1) History that lies beneath the surface, 2) Culture which normalizes and replicates racism and exists all around, and 3) Interconnected institutions and policies at the advantage of the white majority (Lawrence & Keleher, 2004).
Internalized Racism: Occurs at the individual level. It includes an acceptance by members of the stigmatized racial groups of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth. It involves accepting limitations to one’s own full humanity (Jones, 2000).
Interpersonal Racism: Occurs at the relationship level. It includes the expression of racism between individuals. This is the most commonly understood type of racism. Racist expressions at this level may be intentional or unintentional.
(Jones, 2000)
Institutional Racism: Occurs at the community level. It includes discrimination and unfair policies that advantage and disadvantage people based on race within and between institutions (Jones, 2000).
Structural Racism: Occurs at the societal level. It includes 1) History that lies beneath the surface, 2) Culture which normalizes and replicates racism and exists all around, and 3) Interconnected institutions and policies at the advantage of the white majority (Lawrence & Keleher, 2004).
Source: https://www.wcsap.org/prevention/concepts/social-ecological-model
*Nearly all forms of discrimination can be understood using this multi-level approach, including sexism, ableism, classism, and heteronormativity.
*Nearly all forms of discrimination can be understood using this multi-level approach, including sexism, ableism, classism, and heteronormativity.
Microaggression: Intentional or Unintentional verbal, non-verbal or environmental communication that is hostile, derogatory or negative (University of Houston).
Privilege: Personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional benefits, advantages and favors of dominant groups at the expense of targeted groups. Those with privilege include but are not limited to white people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, males, Christians, middle or owning class people, and English speaking people (Vanderbilt University).
Privilege: Personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional benefits, advantages and favors of dominant groups at the expense of targeted groups. Those with privilege include but are not limited to white people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, males, Christians, middle or owning class people, and English speaking people (Vanderbilt University).
What we do:
Outreach: We support student education and professional development aiming to increase access to valuable resources and services.
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UA DEI RESOURCES:
Diversity: We promote diversity, which is expressed in many forms, including race, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, language, culture, religion, national origin, age, political affiliation and (dis)ability status and provide a foundation for ongoing intercultural learning.
Inclusion: We commit to having a campus where differences are welcomed, different perspectives are respected and individuals feel a sense of belonging in a fair and inclusive environment.
Outreach: We support student education and campus partnerships aiming to increase student access to valuable resources and services. Our hope is to develop strong relationships with our campus partners and support students’ well-being.
Inclusion: We commit to having a campus where differences are welcomed, different perspectives are respected and individuals feel a sense of belonging in a fair and inclusive environment.
Outreach: We support student education and campus partnerships aiming to increase student access to valuable resources and services. Our hope is to develop strong relationships with our campus partners and support students’ well-being.
Outreach
McNair Scholars Visitation Day
The Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program is a federal TRIO program funded at 151 institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico. Each year in November, The University of Alabama invites McNair Scholars to visit our campus for a day to learn more about graduate programs. Scholars interact with current graduate students, tour the campus and the facilities, and meet with faculty members in their prospective departments.
Scholarships
The University of Alabama offers some of the most generous scholarship opportunities in the country for qualifying students. Students admitted by December 15 have the opportunity to qualify for university merit-based and competitive scholarships in addition to external scholarships awarded.
Graduate students
The Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program is a federal TRIO program funded at 151 institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico. Each year in November, The University of Alabama invites McNair Scholars to visit our campus for a day to learn more about graduate programs. Scholars interact with current graduate students, tour the campus and the facilities, and meet with faculty members in their prospective departments.
Scholarships
The University of Alabama offers some of the most generous scholarship opportunities in the country for qualifying students. Students admitted by December 15 have the opportunity to qualify for university merit-based and competitive scholarships in addition to external scholarships awarded.
Graduate students
Campus Programs and Resources
Better Together Interfaith Initiative:
Better Together is a national movement of students that are bringing together people of different religious and non-religious backgrounds to work toward a common goal. It’s a network for students, by students – a place where you can come together and work to make interfaith cooperation a priority on your campus.
Black Faculty & Staff Association:
The mission of the Black Faculty and Staff Association is to contribute to the betterment of the University of Alabama by serving as an advocate for educational equity, with an emphasis on African-American students, and the professional needs of its members.
Capstone International Center:
The mission of the Capstone International Center is to initiate, promote, and support The University of Alabama’s international efforts on campus as well as throughout the state and the world. The Center, comprised of Education Abroad, the English Language Institute, and International Services, coordinates the University’s international endeavors, facilitates the development of a global perspective campus-wide, and supports students, faculty, and staff in learning, teaching, research, service, and global outreach.
Creative Campus:
A student-centered arts advocacy organization, Creative Campus is dedicated to building relationships that will serve as a voice for the cultural arts. The interns at Creative Campus — forty-one students with various majors and personal backgrounds — work with students, faculty, and community members in order to engage the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa with innovative ideas.
Crossroads Community Center:
UA’s Crossroads Community Engagement Center is an initiative of the Division of Community Affairs. Crossroads fosters respectful intercultural engagement for students, faculty and staff, and community members throughout the state by facilitating workshops, dialogs, and collaborative programming.
Cultural Heritage Celebrations:
Discover how UA celebrates cultural heritage months including Black History Month, Asian American Heritage Month, Deaf History Month, Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History month, and Native American Heritage Month throughout the year.
Equal Opportunity Programs:
The Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and Disability Services supports the University’s efforts to foster a diverse student body and workforce. The Office works with University Administration, departments, and committees to ensure that University policies and programs comply with applicable nondiscrimination requirements. The University Compliance Officer serves as the Campus Coordinator for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, as amended, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Interfaith Calendar:
Primary sacred dates for all world religions.
Interfaith Meal Guide:
Faith-based dietary practices – a chart for caterers.
Safe Zone and LGBTQIA+ Services:
The UA Safe Zone Resource Center provides educational outreach, community support, and crisis intervention resources for LGBTQIA+ members of the University of Alabama community and their allies. The SZRC offers help connecting people at UA to LGBTQIA+ inclusive resources, provides training on LGBTQIA+ topics for UA students, faculty, and staff, facilitates LGBTQIA+ community building programs on campus, and works with the Safe Zone advisory board to advocate LGBTQIA+ interests at UA.
Student Organizations:
Student Involvement recognizes that UA students come from many different backgrounds and have interests and passions that are as unique and exciting as they are. Student Involvement’s mission is to connect every student with the groups and activities that will best fit their goals and foster their interests. Whether those interests and goals are intellectual, social, recreational, cultural, multicultural, or spiritual in nature, there is a place and a community for every student at The University of Alabama! (link - https://mysource.ua.edu/)
Student Government Association (SGA):
The University of Alabama Student Government Association strives to promote a thriving campus through initiatives, events, and partnerships with many organizations. We believe that the student body comes first and we are here to represent any concerns that come about in each student’s lives.
Sustained Dialogue:
Sustained Dialogue is a dialogue-to-action model that enables participants to build relationships for addressing controversial issues and making positive change. The model is used in national, community, corporate and campus settings.
Trans Resources:
Discover trans resources for students, staff, and faculty members and learn how to be an awesome trans ally.
Veteran and Military Affairs:
The mission of The Office for Veteran and Military Affairs is to provide, facilitate, or coordinate programs and services to meet the special needs of veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors in order to ease their transition to college life and fulfill their educational goals.
Women and Gender Resource Center (WGRC):
The Women and Gender Resource Center addresses gender inequity and fosters a community of multiculturalism, social justice, safety, and leadership through gender-related outreach, advocacy, and support to communities of all identities.
Better Together is a national movement of students that are bringing together people of different religious and non-religious backgrounds to work toward a common goal. It’s a network for students, by students – a place where you can come together and work to make interfaith cooperation a priority on your campus.
Black Faculty & Staff Association:
The mission of the Black Faculty and Staff Association is to contribute to the betterment of the University of Alabama by serving as an advocate for educational equity, with an emphasis on African-American students, and the professional needs of its members.
Capstone International Center:
The mission of the Capstone International Center is to initiate, promote, and support The University of Alabama’s international efforts on campus as well as throughout the state and the world. The Center, comprised of Education Abroad, the English Language Institute, and International Services, coordinates the University’s international endeavors, facilitates the development of a global perspective campus-wide, and supports students, faculty, and staff in learning, teaching, research, service, and global outreach.
Creative Campus:
A student-centered arts advocacy organization, Creative Campus is dedicated to building relationships that will serve as a voice for the cultural arts. The interns at Creative Campus — forty-one students with various majors and personal backgrounds — work with students, faculty, and community members in order to engage the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa with innovative ideas.
Crossroads Community Center:
UA’s Crossroads Community Engagement Center is an initiative of the Division of Community Affairs. Crossroads fosters respectful intercultural engagement for students, faculty and staff, and community members throughout the state by facilitating workshops, dialogs, and collaborative programming.
Cultural Heritage Celebrations:
Discover how UA celebrates cultural heritage months including Black History Month, Asian American Heritage Month, Deaf History Month, Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History month, and Native American Heritage Month throughout the year.
Equal Opportunity Programs:
The Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and Disability Services supports the University’s efforts to foster a diverse student body and workforce. The Office works with University Administration, departments, and committees to ensure that University policies and programs comply with applicable nondiscrimination requirements. The University Compliance Officer serves as the Campus Coordinator for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, as amended, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Interfaith Calendar:
Primary sacred dates for all world religions.
Interfaith Meal Guide:
Faith-based dietary practices – a chart for caterers.
Safe Zone and LGBTQIA+ Services:
The UA Safe Zone Resource Center provides educational outreach, community support, and crisis intervention resources for LGBTQIA+ members of the University of Alabama community and their allies. The SZRC offers help connecting people at UA to LGBTQIA+ inclusive resources, provides training on LGBTQIA+ topics for UA students, faculty, and staff, facilitates LGBTQIA+ community building programs on campus, and works with the Safe Zone advisory board to advocate LGBTQIA+ interests at UA.
Student Organizations:
Student Involvement recognizes that UA students come from many different backgrounds and have interests and passions that are as unique and exciting as they are. Student Involvement’s mission is to connect every student with the groups and activities that will best fit their goals and foster their interests. Whether those interests and goals are intellectual, social, recreational, cultural, multicultural, or spiritual in nature, there is a place and a community for every student at The University of Alabama! (link - https://mysource.ua.edu/)
Student Government Association (SGA):
The University of Alabama Student Government Association strives to promote a thriving campus through initiatives, events, and partnerships with many organizations. We believe that the student body comes first and we are here to represent any concerns that come about in each student’s lives.
Sustained Dialogue:
Sustained Dialogue is a dialogue-to-action model that enables participants to build relationships for addressing controversial issues and making positive change. The model is used in national, community, corporate and campus settings.
Trans Resources:
Discover trans resources for students, staff, and faculty members and learn how to be an awesome trans ally.
Veteran and Military Affairs:
The mission of The Office for Veteran and Military Affairs is to provide, facilitate, or coordinate programs and services to meet the special needs of veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors in order to ease their transition to college life and fulfill their educational goals.
Women and Gender Resource Center (WGRC):
The Women and Gender Resource Center addresses gender inequity and fosters a community of multiculturalism, social justice, safety, and leadership through gender-related outreach, advocacy, and support to communities of all identities.
External ResourcE
BlackPast.org:
BlackPast.org is dedicated to providing reference materials to the general public on six centuries of African American history. It includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser-known figures in African America, full-text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are also links to hundreds of websites that address the history of African Americans including major black museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada. The website is directed toward multiple audiences ranging from scholars and researchers to the general public.
2020 Diversity Calendar
BlackPast.org is dedicated to providing reference materials to the general public on six centuries of African American history. It includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser-known figures in African America, full-text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are also links to hundreds of websites that address the history of African Americans including major black museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada. The website is directed toward multiple audiences ranging from scholars and researchers to the general public.
2020 Diversity Calendar
CHES initiatives
MLK Day of Service, A Day On Not a Day Off
Lunch and Learn: “Monopolizing Wealth: Understanding Race- and Class-based Inequality,” Sponsored by The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, College of Human Environmental Science, and Culverhouse College of Business on Wednesday on January 22nd, 12:00- 1:30pm.
Lunch and Learn: “Monopolizing Wealth: Understanding Race- and Class-based Inequality,” Sponsored by The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, College of Human Environmental Science, and Culverhouse College of Business on Wednesday on January 22nd, 12:00- 1:30pm.
Bias Reporting For
Students, faculty, staff and campus visitors who feel they have been the targets of, or who have been witness to, a hate or bias incident are encouraged to submit a report to the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
UA Diversity Policies
The University of Alabama provides equal opportunity in education and employment for all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (which includes sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), age, disability, or veteran status.
The Capstone Creed
“As a member of The University of Alabama community, I will pursue knowledge, act with fairness, integrity and respect; promote equity and inclusion; foster individual and civic responsibility; and strive for excellence in all I do.”
UA Diversity Policies
The University of Alabama provides equal opportunity in education and employment for all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (which includes sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), age, disability, or veteran status.
The Capstone Creed
“As a member of The University of Alabama community, I will pursue knowledge, act with fairness, integrity and respect; promote equity and inclusion; foster individual and civic responsibility; and strive for excellence in all I do.”