Board of Trustees Diversity Governance Report 2007

Directory of Outreach and Support Services

Diversity Assessment 2006-2007 Executive Report

Members of the Purdue Network of Certified Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Administrators are available to the administrator and analyze the IDI. For more information about the IDI, visit IDI

Members of the Network are:

Rebekah Blonshine, Diversity Resource Office
Brenda Coulson, Housing and Food Services
Kauline Davis, Office of the Provost
Carolyn Johnson (contact person) Diversity Resource Office
Pamala Morris, College of Agriculture
Alysa Christmas Rollock, Vice President for Human Relations
Mark Russell, College of Agriculture
Sharon Williams, Human Resources

1. Celebrate people!
2. Allow yourself to experience diversity.
3. Admit your own biases to yourself.
4. Be truthful with others if you expect them to be truthful with you.
5. FORGIVE!
6. To experience diversity is unique, but to understand diversity is profound.
7. Teach children to appreciate other cultures and expose them to other cultures.
8. Talk less...listen more.
9. Be able to laugh at yourself.
10. Be more appreciative, understanding, and emphathetic.