HHS COUNCIL FOR DIVERSITY 2012-13 1
COUNCIL MEMBERS Dept./ School Staff Faculty Student CSR Jane Anderson Thelma Snuggs Sarah Korni HDFS Karen Hickman Aryn Dotterer TreShawn Anderson HK Nancy Kester Meghan McDonough Shauna Stapleton HSCI Dr. Lan Hong Frank Rosenthal Daniel Cheng HTM Maria Campos Li Miao August Washington NURS Sonia Pierce Chyi-kong Chang Amber Harris NUTR Dinah Dalder Nana Gletsu-Miller Emily Hohman PSY Nancy O Brien David Rollock Vacant SLHS Jane Fenters Dawn Wetzel Evan Mattice 2
COUNCIL MEMBERS Student Services Administrative Offices Teresa Eloff Joseph Ballard Shane Hawkins-Wilding Wanda Stevens (Business Office) Michele Baker (Extension) Alan Mehringer (IT) Liping Cai (Council Chair) Kendra Julian (Council Secretary) 3
DIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTS Collectively advised the Dean on the diversity components of HHS Strategic Plan Individually promoted university and community events to the members representative groups Co-organized/co-sponsored diversity/ multicultural events: Hanna Center Ebony & Ivory Ball Black Graduate Student Association award dinner Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Awareness Week 4
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DIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTS HHS Supplement for Faculty Hire Procedure New faculty hires made possible by the University s Strategic Hiring Funds for diversity New staff hires in student services areas Director for Student Success Student Program Specialist Student Success Mentors Program 6
IMPLEMENTING HHS STRATEGIC PLAN - COUNCIL S WISH LIST (A SAMPLE) Establish a plan and publicize the process for recruiting and a plan for retaining diverse groups of students. Maintaining a tracking system for students for faculty and staff Develop competencies in diversity, global and multicultural skills through curricula for students and development opportunities for faculty and staff Focus on the quality of interactive experiences between and among students from different countries and cultures. Maximize university resources and programs. Better understand current issues and policies and implications for our responsible areas. Determine what we try to achieve and how we measure our diversity efforts. Matching activities with resources. 7
HHS COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 2012-13 8
COMMITTEE MEMBERS CSR HDFS HK HSCI HTM NUR NUTR PSY SLHS Student Rep. Admin Thelma Snuggs Jim Elicker Darlene Sedlock Jim McGlothlin Howard Adler Jan Davis Megan McCrory Kip Williams Ravi Krishnan Sarah Korni Liping Cai (Chair), Kendra Julian (Secretary) 9
IP HIGHLIGHTS Collectively advised the Dean on the global components of HHS Strategic Plan Total of 60+ of John & Emma Global Scholars Increase of study abroad funding/grants Increase of study abroad participants Increase of study abroad participants in facultyled programs Support for new faculty study abroad leaders 10
HHS 2012-2013 Total students abroad 259 HHS dept./sch. faculty-led 124 Semester exchange 24 Other col./organizers 111 43% 48% HHS Faculty-Led Semester Exchange 9% Other Colleges/Organizers 11
HHS FACULTY-LED PROGRAMS 2012 SUMMER, 2013 SPRING CSR Sally Harmon Susan Owens International Influences on Retail & Fashion CSR David Evans Multifaceted Dimensions of International Not-for-Profit Organizations FN Elsa Janle French Culture, Food and Health HDFS Germán Posada Latin-American Children & Families: A Costa Rican Experience HDFS/NURS Judith Myers-Walls Children and Families in India: Human Service & Nursing Perspectives HK Larry Leverenz Tara Hodge Global Experiences in Sports Medicine - China 12
HHS FACULTY-LED PROGRAMS 2012 SUMMER, 2013 SPRING HSCI/NURS Jim McGlothlin Contemporary Issues in Internaitonal Public Health-China HTM Bill Jaffe Culture and Tourism in France HTM Howard Adler Culture and Tourism in Peru & Ecuador HTM Carl Behnke/Ambarish Lulay Cuisine and Culture of Southern Europe NURS Jan Davis/Trina Wright Comparative Healthcare in Ireland 13
IP HIGHLIGHTS Development opportunities for academic advisors (CSR, HDFS, HTM, HSCI, PSY) Global Strategic Partners in Dublin 2013 class in University College Dublin (CSR, HDFS, PSY, NURS) Dublin Institute of Technology (HSCI, NUTR) Global Strategic Partners in Guangzhou (HTM) Study Abroad photo contest 14
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2013 SUMMER, FALL HTM Howard Adler Culture & Tourism in Italy CSR Thelma Snuggs Internaitonal Cross-Cultural Behavior in Internaitoanl Business & Not-for-Profit Org. CSR, HDFS, PSY Bobbe Molter Karen Hickman Janet Proctor University College Dublin, Semester Exchange HK Darlene Sedlock Tarra Hodge Global Perspectives of Health and Wellness NUR Elizabeth O'Neil Healthcare and Nutrition in Costa Rica NURS SLHS Jan Davis Trina Wright Lata Krishnan Jennifer Simpson Comparative Healthcare in Ireland SLHS in Zambia 16
IMPLEMENTING HHS STRATEGIC PLAN - COMMITTEE WISH LIST ( A SAMPLE) One or more study abroad courses are developed as HHS-branded signatures/that appeal to students from multiple departments/schools. A global learning fair/forum is held monthly as a continuous venue to educate HHS students and promote featured study abroad. Parents are engaged to learn about opportunities of study abroad and global learning for their children. A study abroad course is required for all HHS students to satisfy the requirement of the University Core Curriculum for the foundational outcome of Human Cultures, as well as for the embedded outcomes of Intercultural Knowledge and Effectiveness and Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility. Each department identifies one or more required courses that are appropriate or can be fitted for study abroad. 17