- DiversiKey Certificate Program
- Diversity at Work - Diversity Education Initiative
- Diversity Fellows Program & Colloquium
- Diversity in the Classroom (DICP) Project
- Diversity Roundtable
- L.E.A.D. (Learning Through Experiences and Awareness in Diversity) Peer Mentor Program
- Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, Day of Service and Boilers Care-and-Share Drive
- Purdue Dreamer Award
- Purdue Network of Certified Intercultural Development Inventory Administrators
- Religious, Ethnic, and Civic Observances Calendar
- Workshops & Training Events
- Other Campus Initiatives
Introduction
Purdue University will continue its national reputation of graduating students who are exemplary products of their discipline as well as being equipped to be model citizens in a global society. Developing a competency based model incorporates the ideals that every Purdue University employee contributes to the education of students. Vision, Voice, Visibility utilized national benchmarks to establish a paradigm that indicates how students benefit from a comprehensive diversity strategy. Diversity, as defined by the Diversity Resource Office, acknowledges the centrality of race, ethnicity, and gender while embracing the multiple dimensions of difference within the Purdue community.
Diversity Resource Office Vision -- Vision, Voice, and Visibility
Vision, Voice, Visibility: a competency based diversity initiative for 2000-2003 embraces institutional transformation, which attends to every facet of the university community.
Activities for accomplishing Vision, Voice, Visibility
Provide opportunities for the campus to determine, discuss, understand, and implement strategies to create an environment that fosters constituent diversity competence and excellence through assessing, evaluating, and, if necessary, encourage review of policies and practices of the university.
Seek allies and partners who can and will advocate, inform and educate others about the Purdue diversity initiative.
Create forums for connecting, educating, accepting and celebrating diversity and pluralism.
Diversity Resource Office Paradigm
Purdue University’s competency based initiative consists of four essential goals designed to demonstrate an institutional imperative to provide an inclusive climate where students will develop skills to live and work in a pluralistic society.
Vision Goal I:
Enhance Purdue University’s environment to improve the experiences of students, faculty and staff from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education and to enlighten all members of the university community regarding issues of diversity.
Vision Goal II:
Provide centralized resources, services and assistance to enhance decentralized programs and activities to promote multicultural awareness and support for persons from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
Vision Goal III:
Develop a competency based diversity initiative to prepare students to live, learn and work in a multicultural world.
Vision Goal IV:
Assess and evaluate Purdue University’s programs and activities relating to diversity on an ongoing basis.
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