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Jeanie LaFrance, the coordinator of The Illumination Project, is a friend of mine.  We worked together for years on projects with the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.  More recently, she worked with VOCA Camp to encourage kids to express their thoughts and feelings through theater.  Very Powerful! She may be available to work with our group, if that's something we want in the future.  It's also worth a trip to Portland to see any of her work.  Also, Greg Haman gave me a CD of the Illumination Project (and I haven't given it back to him....yet), so it's available to view...at least for a while.  Thanks for linking us with the website, Candice!  (Margaret 4/25)

 

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The Illumination Project at Portland Community College. Check it out, neat stuff. (Candice, 4/25)

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May is the month for commorating the Holocaust. A possible project would be to bring a speaker to campus who is a Holocaust Survivor. It seems that too many have already forgotten the horrors and lessons of that time period. Here's a link to the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, specifically for requesting a speaker. (Candice, 3/28)

 

 

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We have a new student study room in the library this term. I'd love to add a diversity/multicultural collection to the room. Any thoughts? (Candice 2/29/08)

 

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Hi everyone! Sorry that I wasn't at yesterday's meeting but am enthused by the creation of this wiki and the action items we have begun to list here. A quick comment on budget: considering where we are in the budget process, we do need to make this a priority. I have spoken with Lindi and I will go ahead and create a budget line for diversity - we are placing it under the budget organizational structure of "institutional support" -- this seemed to us the best fit.

 

The photograhy project reminds me of the "day in the life" projects popular a few years ago - is that part of the thinking here, to have everyone take a picture of someone in their life (broadly defined) all on the same day?

 

Was there any discussion at the meeting about the Institutional Student Learning Outcome on diversity and our current efforts to both define the ISLO more clearly (e.g., what is diversity?) and then identify appropriate measures of the outcome? I am interested in getting a broad base of perspectives, ideas, contributions of language and measures, and overall support for this effort.

 

I am looking forward to the next meeting and hope to be there this time. Thanks again for everyone's interest and commitment! Take care, Stephen

 

 

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I love what what was said in our first meeting, about how, the best way to instill an acceptance (or better yet) embracement of a diverse group, is to show people not so much what is different about them, but to magnify that which relates us all. We all seek after the same ideal lives and strive for perfection; we just do it in different ways. "Unified through our differences." (Matthew)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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