Student Diversity Council Speeches

We, Lindenwood University’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force are charged with promoting the well-being, safety and security of a diverse academic community in which teaching, learning, and the exchange of ideas can flourish, and where we encounter, encourage, and interrogate ideas that challenge settled notions of truth.

there is too much that still needs to be done in the study of diversity. Dr. Marilyn states that those of diversity want to be included, not one of margins. I agree with the Dr. here, just like white or other races everyone wants to be thought of as being one, and belonging in any group. Dr. Marilyn states the importance of instructors and their willingness to stand toe to toe with their students for the unlimited possibilities to happen in the classroom. Dr. Marilyn says that we must pay attention to both diversity and inclusion for progress to be possible. Dr. Marilyn talks about the diversity wheel, she refers to this wheel as a cultural contact lens. This wheel shows diversity in many arenas, work, school, and in society. Dr. Marilyn believes

Based on the sign up sheet on the board in the staff lounge, we are the Diversity Committee!

Where are we today? Today as a district we are focused on encouraging our students to be well-rounded citizens and to be beneficial to society. Creating a Strategic Diversity Plan will allow our students to be exposed to others of different cultures and backgrounds in order to be beneficial to a society that

INTRO: Prompt: What should “diversity on campus” mean and why? Hook: Does diversity help liberate narrow-mindedness? What exactly is diversity? To say that diversity is approached on school campuses is an understatement to the level of understanding in this increasingly globalized world. By its definition, “diversity” requires inclusion. Are school’s really working toward the inclusion of everyone? This means including color, national origin, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation. Looking at court cases and polls shown in the short articles, “Introduction from Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America” and “The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality,” their approach to strengthening

From this conference, I will get out a better sense of leadership and pride for who I am. Before I went to Southfield and The Park School, I went to a Boston Public School where much of the students were people of color. Now the majority are light-skinned.

The Office for Equity and Diversity coordinates an annual weeklong celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Every year our MLK events become more influential and impactful than the year before. This year we have invited an expert on African American issues and movements, Ta-Nehisi Coates, as our keynote speaker. The weeklong commemoration engages upwards to 5000 people across Utah. The logistics associated with hosting the ceremony requires resources not readily available to our office. We are hopeful that your contribution towards our keynote speaker and other costs associated with holding a weeklong event will alleviate this financial

Not until my summer spent at North Carolina’s Governor’s School did I truly experience diversity in a student population. Growing up in Lincoln County, with a modest population of approximately 10,000, left me with the opportunity of meeting people who knew exactly who I was, who my parents were, whose class I was in, and were almost exactly like me. Furthermore, being exposed to this type of people never allowed me to hear new ideas in person, as I only heard what beliefs had been passed down from generation to generation. However, my Governor’s School experience lead me to meet so many new people my age who came from all different walks of life. It completely opened up my perspectives and convictions to how I approach people, carry myself,

Jane Elliot set the stage for discussing, understanding, experiencing, and attempting to eliminate racism when she began enacting her brown eyed/blue eyed exercise regarding race and privilege among her 8-year-old third grade students. Within said exercise Elliot convinced her students that they were either superior or inferior based solely upon the color of their eyes. She provided those who had the superior eye color with privileges such as seconds at lunch, five minutes of extra recess, the ability to use the water fountain, and being first in line to go somewhere. Then, without any coaxing, the seemingly innocent third graders who had the superior eye color turned vicious and hateful towards those with the inferior eye color in a matter of minutes; this proves that a feeling of superiority has the power to overwhelm one’s core values and cause undetected, inappropriate actions to arise. Unfortunately, these sort of hateful, vicious, undetected, and inappropriate actions also appear in the real world, even among adults who should know better, regardless of whether an teaching exercise is being taught or not.

On January 10th, 2017, Barack Obama - the 44th President of the United States - gave his farewell speech in the nontraditional city of Chicago, Illinois. Out of the many brilliant quotes drawn from his speech, one really catered to a phenomena sweeping the nation at this very moment in time: race relations. On that brisk Tuesday evening, Obama claimed that “...race relations are better today. All of us have more work to do in the area of race relations. Hearts must change to stop discrimination.” As a country, we have made substantial progress and are at a good point in terms of race relations; however, there is still much ground to cover to fulfill the dreams of American heroes like Obama or Martin Luther King Jr.: peace and equality. Race relations in America have not been - and may not ever be - as ideal as we desire, but if we seek to mobilize and continue fighting, equality may finally come into the framework of America.

My perspective on academic subjects will help me contribute to campus diversity at North Carolina State. I often find learning new information to be particularly interesting and inspiring. I have a genuine curiosity when learning new subjects, allowing me to remove areas of my ignorance in an attempt to become a more rational and educated thinker; this is the essence of discovery and progression. I look forward to engaging in intellectual discussions and debates predicated on a broad variety of different subjects with my peers. I hope to bring new insight and a unique perspective to progress discussions. My skeptical perspective will allow me to challenge the ideas and beliefs of my classmates, conversely, I look forward to having any of my

Technological advances have altered human life in both negative and positive ways. One negative aspect is the invasion of privacy. While the risk for invasion of privacy is greater in the age of big data, the benefits for society as a whole is greater as well. In this essay, I address how to weigh the tension between sharing clinical data, protecting a subject’s privacy and honoring a subject’s preference as it relates to human research. However, before an assessment can be made on how to weigh these variables, it is crucial to first identify the principles embedded within the current topic and then understanding how the principles apply to the topic. So, to make this assessment, I begin with identifying how the principle of autonomy applies to sharing clinical data.

Chinua Achebe based the title of his book, Things Fall Apart from William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.” The statements of the poem are parallel to the actions of the Christians upon the Ibo Tribe. The influence of Christianity from the white men upon the Ibo Tribe was a stressful and frustrating phenomenon in the mind of Okonkwo. Okonkwo believed that the “clan can no longer act as one” (Achebe 152) because “the best lack all conviction, while the worst/ are full of passionate intensity” (Yeats 7).

It has been previously proven, that in the first few moments of meeting someone, we form an opinion of them. The problem with this idea is stereotypes. One of our society's biggest mistake is that we judge people based on what they look like, or how they act.

In a world that is becoming increasingly dynamic and interconnected where each of us are becoming more dependent on each other, diversity is a crucial element of life. Never in human history have students had available to them the