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Diversity: Public invited to hear new plan Continued from page 1 is a step-by-step, bureaucratic process, that this is going to take time, but for people to just shrug it off and say, ‘OK, well they’re doing the work so we don’t need to do it’ — I don’t buy that.” “If we continue to talk to the same people about the same things in the same way, then we’re going to miss a great deal of what the world has to offer,” said Gary. Gary said it will be difficult for the University to benefit from the plan unless people buy into it. “It’s the ability of the larger group to say ‘we want this to happen,”’ Gary said. “I don’t want you to tell me that you value (diversity), I want to see that you do by what you do, who you bring in and how you support them.” The plan’s first point, developing cultural competency, incorporates the University’s Center on Diversity and Community to institutionalize cultur al competency, which CoDaC defines as “an active process and ongoing pursuit of self-reflection, learning, skill development, and adaptation, practiced at individual and systems levels, in order to effectively engage a culturally diverse population.” The plan also includes recommen dations to revise the University’s mul ticultural undergraduate requirement to include “Developing Cultural Com petency/Proficiency” and revise third year, tenure and post-tenure evaluation criteria to “assess ongoing skill building and demonstrable commitment to cultural competency.” The second point, building critical mass, focuses on recruitment and re tention of students, staff, faculty and administration. Major components of the point included the implementation of “cluster hires,” the hiring of several faculty members simultaneously r under a single theme related to diversi ty. Adding diversity-building scholar ships was included in the plan as a way to increase student recruitment and retention. The third point, expanding and fill ing the pipeline, addresses the flow of prospective students from minority groups considered to be “underrepre sented.” The University’s plan would use programs like Oregon Young Scholars and Saturday Scholar’s Academy to increase the interest and academic skills of “historically under represented students.” The fourth point, developing and strengthening community linkage, attempts to expand the University’s participation in community-wide di versity issues by creating a commu nity relations committee. The plan encourages the University to be come involved in community initia tives and “hold all offices, programs and departments accountable for strengthening appropriate community linkages.” “We need to do a better job in all aspects,” Vincent said. “We need to be seen as real and active partners. Greg Vincent, vice provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, presents the University’s Five-Year Diversity Action Plan on Monday. Kate Horton | Photographer Other than football and sports, we don’t have that portal.” The fifth point, developing and re inforcing diversity infrastructure, uses the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity as a central hub for di versity issues on campus to improve communication and coordination within the University. The sixth point, improving campus climate, helps ensure a safe and wel coming environment for minority members of the University communi ty and continued evaluation of that environment. The campus climate point is the newest part of the plan and is still being reviewed. “Once the president and the provost sign off on this, they will be accountable (for upholding it),” Gary said. Students, faculty, staff and other community members are invited to the next sessions of community con versations Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m in Gerlinger Lounge and Monday from noon to 8 p.m. in the EMU’s Ben Linder Room. adamcherry@dailyemerald. com I “Seat Ut fOCWt! Also serving lunch Open Daily 7am-3pm 7 days a week 1689 Willamette • 343-1542 & w4_ Zz n UO Bookstore Board of Directors Choose your candidate! Elections ♦ May 10 and 11 ♦ located in the EMU & UO Bookstore 022196 FIRST SESSION (JUNE 20 - JULY 15) ANTH 150 World Archaeology >2 (4) Introduction to archaeology and cultural change from the earliest times to the advent of state-level societies. Mclnnis. ANTH 171 Intro Monkeys & Apes >3 (4) Evolutionary biology of the primates: the fossil record and ecology in the age of mammals, primate anatomy, locomotor feeding adaptations, taxonomic relations, and primate ethnology. Lukacs. ANTH 310 Evolution of the Mind (4) Hominid fossils and psychology reveal the origins of the human mind and its impact on mating, marriage, parenting, kinship, exchange, cooperation, warfare, narrative, and art. Sugiyama. ANTH 321 Peoples of India (4) Survey of India’s religious and cultural diversity, the caste system, issues of ethnic identity and untouchability, gender and construction, social conflict, diaspora, and politics of poverty. Karim. Meets IC multicultural group requirement. ANTH 433 Native Central Americans (4) Contact period and contemporary ethnography of native peoples’ ecological adaptation, socioeconomic organization, and culture change. Hill. Prereq: 4 cr. in cultural anth. Meets IC multicultural group requirement. ANTH 469 Perspectives on Health & Illness (4) Overview of medical anthropology: cross-cultural theories of illness and treatment strategies, cultural roles of patient and healer, and human adaptations to disease. Moreno. Prereq: ANTH 365. For more information, please email anthro@darkwing.uoregon.edu or call 346-5102 SECOND SESSION (JULY 18 - AUGUST 10) ANTH 165 Sexuality & Culture >2 (4) Examines sexuality through the historical, cultural, economic, and political factors that contribute to the construction of sexual identities, relationships, and institutions. Lowen. Meets IP multicultural group requirement. ANTH 326 Caribbean Societies >2 (4) Explores the legacy of processes that formed Caribbean culture-migration, slavery, and trade-in religious, popular, and scholarly contexts. Scher. Meets IC multicultural group requirement. ANTH 399 Culture Contact N. America (4) Explores contemporary issues, epistemologies, and methodologies of culture contact studies. Integrates evidence from archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, and oral history to investigate the complexities, responses, negotiations, consequences, and implications of sustained contact on indigenous people in North America. Baird. ANTH 399 Human Growth and Development (4) In this course we will trace the history of human growth studies, evolutionary and bicultural perspectives on the modern.human growth pattern, anthropological issues in the study of human growth and the methods whereby growth is quantified (measured) and compared. Robbins. ANTH 412 Economy & Culture (4) Explores cultural dimensions of production, distribution, and consumption processes, particular attention paid to variability and local-global dynamics. Brief historical overview and extended ethnographic analysis. Prereq: upper division standing in a social science. Wooten. ANTH 413 Culture & Psychology (4) Bridges anthropology and psychology to explore the relationship between the individual and culture; includes such topics as emotion, personality, mental illness, and sexuality. Baxter.
