The Purdue University Diversity Fellows Program
About the Diversity Fellows Program
The purpose of the Diversity Fellows Program is to provide support for faculty development, implementation and sharing of inclusive approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment in the area of diversity.
Two faculty members from each participating College/School will be selected to receive $2,000 grants to be used to revise an existing course or to propose a new course to be taught during the 2010-2011 academic year. Our goal is to increase the number of courses in our Colleges and Schools that either have a diversity component or are solely focused on diversity. The $2,000 stipend may be used to purchase materials or to fund activities related to course development; it may not be taken as salary. Examples of appropriate use of funds are the purchase of academic print materials, digital media, films, software, or travel related to course development.
All tenured, tenure-track, and clinical faculty with appointments in the participating Colleges/Schools are eligible for consideration. Those faculty who are named as Diversity Fellows will be expected to write a brief final report (including a copy of the course syllabus) on their course project and participate in two presentations; one at a DICP colloquium along with the Diversity Fellows and another presentation at a College/School event during the 2010-11 academic year.
The Diversity Fellows Program is supported by the Diversity Resource Office in conjunction with the Deans of the Colleges of Consumer and Family Sciences, Education, Liberal Arts and the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
About the Diversity in the Classroom Project
The Diversity in the Classroom project focuses on teaching to diversity and teaching diversity with strategies that align with institutional and discipline-specific goals to enhance the human and intellectual diversity environment for student learning. A collaborative and interdisciplinary initiative, Diversity in the Classroom workshops and discussions have provided opportunities for sharing best practices and articulating diversity-centered classroom practices and curriculum approaches.
The Diversity in the Classroom Project provides leadership for scholars to discuss inclusive approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, to increase knowledge and skills about the interaction between diversity across disciplines, and to create a common language used to inform and improve methods to teach to diversity and teach diversity at Purdue University. It also seeks to create student diversity competencies in behavior and intellectual abilities through classroom practices and curriculum development.
For more information, please contact a Diversity in the Classroom project coordinator:
Carolyn Johnson, Diversity Resource Office
Pamala Morris, College of Agriculture
Joan Marshall, College of Liberal Arts
William McInerney, College of Education
Liping Cai , College of Consumer and Family Sciences
Kauline Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
Diversity in the Classroom Committee
Diversity Resource Office
Carolyn Johnson, Director
College of Agriculture
Pamala Morris, Director of Multicultural Programs
College of Consumer and Family Sciences
Richard Widdows, Interim Associate Dean
College of Education
William McInerney
College of Liberal Arts
Joan Marshall, Associate Dean
Diversity Fellows
2007 - 2008
College of Agriculture
Matthew Kirkwood, Assistant Proffessor
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
New Course: LA 101, Introduction to Landscape Architecture
Mark Russell, Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
Revision: ANSC 381, Career Leadership
College of Education
Anne Knupfer, Professor
Department of Educational Studies
New Course: AMST 590A/EDST 600/ENG 696A, The Chicago Black Renaissance
JoAnn Phillion, Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum Instruction
Revision: EDCI 205, Exploring Teaching as a Career
College of Liberal Arts
Robin Clair, Professor
Department of Communication
New Course: COM 495D/COM 328, Diversity at Work: A Rhetorical Approach
Dawn Marsh, Assistant Professor
Department of History
New Course: HIST 572, History of Native America
Melanie Shoffner, Assitant Professor
Departments of English and Curriculum and Instructtion
Revision: ENGL 492, Literature in the Secondary Classroom
2006 - 2007
College of Agriculture
B. Allen Talbert, Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum Instruction
Revision of YDAE 565, Principles of Adult Education
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/faculty_profiles/talbert/index.html
College of Consumer and Family Science
Juline E. Mills, Assistant Professor
Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Revision of HTM 351 E, Business for the Hospitality and Tourism Sector
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/pages/academics/directory/mills.html#top
Thelma Snuggs, Assistant Professor
Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing
Revision of CFS 120, Market Place 2020
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/csr/faculty_staff/Snuggs.shtml
College of Education
Lecretia Buckley, Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum Instruction
Revision of EDCI 425, Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary Schools
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/math/mathfaculty.html
Erik Malewski, Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum Instruction
Revision of EDCI 285, Multiculturalism and Education
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/malewski/
College of Liberal Arts
Timothy J. Owens, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Revision of S 100, Introduction Sociology
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/sociology/directory/?personid=944
Penny Weiss, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Revision of POL 429, Non-Western Political Theory
http://www.polsci.purdue.edu/Directory/Faculty/weiss.html
2005 - 2006
College of Consumer and Family Science
Charles A. Calahan, Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Child Development and Family Studies
Revise CDFS 432, The Family Life Cycle
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/cdfs/pages/fac_staff/calahan.html
College of Education
Nadine Dolby, Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum Instruction
Revision of EDCI 285, Multicultural Education
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/cstudies/csfaculty.htm
M. Carole Pistole, Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Revision of EDPS 621, Advanced Multicultural Counseling Theory and Practice
http://www.edst.purdue.edu/pistole/welcome.html
Ala Samarapungavan, Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Revision of EDPS 591 D, Culture and Cognition
http://www.edst.purdue.edu/ala/
College of Liberal Arts
Erina L. MacGeorge, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Revision of COM 102, Introduction to Communication Theory
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/comm/html/people/pages/erinamacgeorge.htm
Dr. Silvia Oliveira, Assistant Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
New Course Proposal: PTGS 330: Brazilian, Portuguese, and African Cinema
http://india.fll.purdue.edu/FLLPortal/FLLPerson.aspx?ID=288