Conversations on Defining Diversity: Transfer Rights

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A Public Forum in the College of the Environment

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Fishery Sciences Building, Room 203

Please RSVP by Monday, May 13.  Coffee and sweets will be served.

Panelists:

  • Ali Albrecht – Program Manager, First Year Programs
  • Benjamin Cram –  Junior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
  • Daniel Poux – Director, Ready, Set, Transfer! Program, Seattle Community Colleges
  • Mika Usher – Senior, Earth & Space Sciences

About CoDD: Diversity, equality, engagement, opportunity – these are words laden with value and individual meaning.  The College of the Environment is committed to creating and supporting a diverse academic community representing a full range of cultural, ethnic and disciplinary sectors. 

One way to achieve that goal is by talking.

Conversations on Defining Diversity is a public forum within the College where we – all of us – can explore the issues, roadblocks, challenges, and opportunities our College faces, as the first step towards brainstorming solutions.

Each conversation will focus on a particular aspect of diversity, and will feature our own faculty, staff, and students speaking about their experiences, often from very different points of view.  Come listen, share, and learn.

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This is a reminder to register by Thursday, February 28 for the Defining Diversity Event on March 4th from 3-4pm in the PoE Commons in Wallace Hall.  

If a university is a bastion of academic freedom, can the students be required to take diversity courses?

If a university is a bastion of academic freedom, isn’t it just the place where students can, and should, learn about diverse ideas, cultures, approaches, disciplines, languages, experiences, and people?

In 2012, the UW Student Diversity Coalition proposed to establish a diversity course requirement for all students.  They stated that such a requirement is central to a core value of the University – to produce educated global citizens.

  •  what’s important  enough to be a requirement for all UW students?
  • what do general education requirements say about the university’s values?
  • who gets to (should) decide what’s core to a student’s basic education?
  • what difference would one course make?

 And, should the College of the Environment wait until a requirement is passed, or should we proactively institute our own courses, and course requirements?  Join the latest Conversation on Defining Diversity (CoDD) in the College of the Environment as we look at all sides of this issue.