DeMya T. Wimberly HED59060 Diversity In Higher Ed Dr. Gore I would like to open by identifying leadership theories that fit me the best. Honestly I believe all three fit me and I will begin with a brief backstory to explain why. Prior to coming to the University of Toledo I spent 17.5 years working for the Lucas County Juvenile Court specifically at the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center where our charge was to save the taxpayers of Lucas money by lowering the amount of youth who were committed to the Department of Youth Services in Columbus (Juvenile Prison). Our program focused on arming offending youth with the skills to re-orient safely back into the Lucas County Community. We could house 44 youth 36 male, 12 female at maximum capacity …show more content…
First off I was assigned a housing unit as I was the Supervisor for the Blue Unit of YTC in which I was responsible for 4 professional staff, and the 12 youth assigned to the unit. There were many other duties for example I trained our staff on First Aid/CPR and Crises Prevention or “CPI” which taught staff safe “non-harmful” techniques if attacked that resulted in safe outcomes for both youth and staff involved. I was responsible for establishing business accounts within the community, for example I would go to Costco, Sam’s, Best Buy, Direct TV and The Red Cross of Toledo to name a few and meet with their representatives to procure services for our facility. I also worked with the Toledo Symphony various pastors, and local barbers in the area to organize and schedule facility bible studies, music lessons and grooming for the kids. I would inform them of who, were and what specific services we needed and set up accounts and then finalizing them through the Court’s Finance Director who drew up the legal paperwork and set up credit accounts for the county. I would hire barbers and stylists and developed great relationships in the Toledo community. I had the tremendous responsibility of having a few county credit cards at home in a safe place for purchases if and when required. Other duties included speaking at Owens community college and doing tours of …show more content…
I utilized “Situational Leadership” depending on the task for example as I mentioned before our ultimate goal was to return youth safely to the community. To accomplish our long term primary responsibilities I utilized the “Expressive Theory” were our group well-being and work as a unit was pivotal in ultimately helping the youth assigned to our unit. We accomplished this by having weekly Wednesday team meetings were staff, the Therapist assigned to our unit and myself as a team reviewed the cases of the residents up for review usually 4 each week, discussed phase movements, the unit dynamics overall and instituted individual or unit wide interventions if needed. As the unit Supervisor I regularly met with staff at least once every other week, performed annual performance evals, and checked on their well-being often. This was a stressful field and I wanted them to know that they, their input and contribution mattered. I continuously gave staff feedback, encouragement and even at times appropriate disciplinary action. I often received compliments from our Administrator about how smoothly our unit ran and how it seemed to run itself. This was due to my belief of training staff to do my job or to become Shift Leader/Supervisors and I never felt threatened and I was very open with my staff about theirs and my goals for them
Growing up, I had a basic understanding of diversity and the importance of inclusivity. Before attending the University of Maryland, I only considered race and gender when thinking of diversity since those are two of my own identities. Living in residence halls and getting involved in extra curricular activities, my self-awareness and understanding of other identities increased.
Poverty is a serious issue which our society and children faces every day. It is a constant struggle that shouldn’t be ignored. UNICEF states “The study of OECD countries in 2007, over fourteen percent of Australian children under the age of eighteen are currently living in households who are defined as poor or with incomes less than half of the median national income”. The increase in the number and percentage of children living in poverty within our society has contributed to making today's classrooms more diverse than ever it has been. This highlights and makes both teaching and learning more challenging. Diversity exists in the students who are living in poverty and the education assistant and teachers must provide the concept of diversity
Washburn University has always been proud of having diversity since it first opened its doors to the public 151 years ago. If you are to look around campus many are able to see how much diversity is valued by the campus as a whole, they know everyone is different and each person has their own story to tell. If a university made it where no one is allowed to talk about where they came before and how they ended up where they are in life. what is the point of being proud of who you are? For me, it is important for each person to be proud of the person who they are because they could have had to overcome so much in life to make it to this point of being an undergraduate.
Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.
Diversity on college campuses has increased, which has let people assume that racism decreased and acceptance expanded gradually, however minorities still face prejudice and discrimination. Harvard University presented a research where they gathered college students from 4 particular public universities and questioned them about the social behavior they have experienced or witnessed. In the contrary, they discovered that college students have encountered racist comments or negative facial expressions towards them from Caucasians (Caplan, page 31). This has led to propositions for instance, improving social conduct between children in school, more gratification in regard to one’s culture and positive outlook toward the culture of others because America’s obsession with race and racial attitudes continues to affect individuals emotionally. It is urgent to spread diversity at a younger stage of life, for upcoming children that are starting school. The need of role models around the nation is necessary and relevant to help multicultural education in the schools. Diversity has become significant since people all over the country are passionate about others knowing where they come from and making it possible of a more diverse society in the future.
Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville is a school that supports diversity. I would recommend partnering with them.
I did not have a hard time finding an article on community colleges; this one came right to me. However, as the author points out, there is a great deal of research missing on the community college level. Taylor (2015) states, “Because we have little research on LGBTQ students in the community college context (Leider, 2012; Zamani-Gallaher & Choudhuri, 2011), the vast majority of the research and empirical evidence is based on the 4-year context” (Taylor, 2015, p. 60).
Southeast Missouri State University currently has 12 residence halls, two of which are currently community style the rest are suite style. The university currently is a home to over twenty-eight hundred students during the fall and spring semesters. Dr. Carlos Vargas-Aburto soon to be inducted on May 5th of 2016 has taken his position head on so far really promoting the diversity that is on the campus. A problem that the university is currently facing is diversity opportunities in the residence halls. The problem being that although the university promotes its diversity, it is not shown in the residence halls. Students are being forced to live with other students that are classified at their birth genders, meaning that only males can live with
The United States today is a society struggling with its own diversity. There have been
In a Nutshell: Across the country, different institutions have set goals to diversify their faculty population. Campuses such as Boston College and the University of California Riverside shared strategies they have employed to hire more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups. These strategies are not focused on numeral targets or costly initiatives. By implementing these strategies in 2016, Boston College had 39 (46%) tenure-track, and tenured faculty who were from minority backgrounds, and University of California Riverside had 35 (20%) new underrepresented-minority faculty.
The world is filled different cultures, races and ethnicities, and it is crucial that our higher education institutions reflect this diversity. Representation matters. We are a country filled with diverse cultures all of which whom need to be represented. The purpose of this literature review is to explain why and how diversity in a higher education setting is important. Students learn better in such an environment and are better prepared to become active participants in our pluralistic, democratic society once they leave school Diversity is not only important among the student population but also within college curriculum. It is an important issue regardless of the setting. However, when it is applied it to a place where people come to learn,
Out of all the different leadership theories I learned about this semester I really feel that I best relate to transformational leadership and authentic leadership theories. During the development of my personal theory I found that these theories tended to list many similar traits, and values that aligned with my own. Additionally, both authentic and transformative theories place a significant amount of emphasis on the relationship between the leader and her/his followers. The success and influence of a leader comes not from herself but from her ability to create and invoke strong relationships with their followers. Given my character strengths of sociability, integrity, assertiveness, and my drive to connect to others on a deeper level, I value both the authentic and the transformative leadership theories.
Like it or not, there has always been diversity among students in the classroom. It is the fact that each and every student is unique. From every circumstance, students bring a varying set of values, perspectives, and beliefs to the learning environment. Understanding the character of students is important in order to become a competent teacher. In fact, teachers should be aware and recognize students, as unique individuals, all acquire information differently than others. Some of these differences are due to developmental variations in cognitive, physical, intellectual, moral, emotional, and social changes caused by maturation and experience. And this reality of classroom conditions makes instruction much more challenging for teachers and
U.S. schools and colleges vary from numerous points of view. Some are open, others are independently employed individual; some are huge urban colleges, some are two-yr. group universities, others little rustic grounds. Some offer alumna and expert political stage, others point of convergence basically on undergrad instruction. Each of our more than 3, 000 schools and colleges has its particular and dissimilar mission. This aggregate differing qualities around organizations is one of the extraordinary strength of America's higher instruction framework, and has helped make it the best in the people. Protecting that assorted qualities is key on the off chance that we plan to serve the needs of our just social order.
As of July 1, 2011, there are 36, 708, 083 people in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2017a). 1.2% higher than the population last year, which was 36, 264, 604 people of all ages and both sexes (Statistics Canada, 2017b). The growth of population in Canada, which in this case powered largely by immigration, increases not only the human capital, but the diversity in every province as well. Hence, as diversity expands, there is also a rampant growth in religion. In 2011, there are 108 religions observed in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2011) - Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu – to name a few. These demographics have connotations on how diversity in school is also evident.