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Committee
Members
- Bob
Allen, Trustee,
Co-Chair
- Angela Batista, Director,
Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion
- Laurel
Bongiorno, Faculty
- Hadley
Bunting, Assistant
Director
of Admissions
- Janet
Cottrell, Director
of
Library Services
- Kay
Kennedy, Vice
President
for Student
Services, Co-Chair
- Bob
Moore, Trustee
- Holly
Miller, Trustee
- Lara
Scott, Assistant
Director
of Residential
Life
- Peter
Straube, Faculty
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Mission
President Finney
charged the task force on Diversity
and Inclusion to develop a broad set
of recommendations to enhance the
socioeconomic, racial/ethnic and geographic
diversity of Champlain College. The
mission is to ensure that the College
is an inclusive community, providing
rich opportunities for people of differing
world views to interact in meaningful
ways. This effort is fundamental to
our institutional vision of developing
skilled professionals and global citizens
who are prepared for a multicultural
world with diverse values, lifestyles
and perspectives.
Dr.
Finney addressed these ideas in his
inaugural remarks in November 2005:
...Champlain
is an institution of insufficient
diversity -- racial/ethnic, socioeconomic,
and geographic. It is evident to
me that Champlain will benefit significantly
from our efforts to diversify, and
so we will become a more diverse
institution. It is my hope that
our future will be characterized
by a cacophony of dissonant voices
in our classrooms that cause both
students and faculty to question
their own comfortable assumptions,
their own certainty about how the
world is, or is not.
In short,
as President Finney expressed, "we
need to bring more diversity to campus
so that the Champlain community will
be less comfortable with preconceived
notions and more comfortable with
“otherness."
Timeline
- Interim report
to Dave Finney by Summer 2006
- Long-term recommendations
may extend 3-5 years
- Ongoing evaluation,
assessment review, and dialogue
about diversity and inclusion at
Champlain College
International
Students at Champlain College
The Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion
The Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion (OSDI) was created to help Champlain’s increasingly diverse population engage in academic and campus activities. The office strives to create a more diverse and rich college community and offers advocacy and support to under-represented students, in particular. OSDI sponsors a variety of academic, social, and educational events and activities for students, faculty, staff and community members throughout the entire academic year.
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