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University and college diversity forums
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</noinclude>University and college diversity forums are platforms for faculty, staff and students to gain knowledge, deepen thinking and create an open environment for diversity. They are part of campus diversity culture which started to be prevailing from the beginning of 1990s. Diversity broadly includes not only race and gender but the connections between these and other sources of identity such as religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, class and ability. It encourages forms of learning that deepen and enrich the ways we connect across our differences. The main themes of the diversity forums vary from campus to campus. The main themes of the diversity forums vary from campus to campus. Goals Diversity forums take various actions to achieve the goals of significantly improving the representation and academic success of members coming from kinds of backgrounds and specialities, among the student body, the faculty and the staff; to improve the classroom and social climate of the campus for those groups; and to increase the depth of understanding by the large majority of us who are not in those groups for their values, customs, and experiences. We need to encourage civility and respect. We need to look more closely at the day-to-day behaviors that impact the climate in which we all work and learn, not just focus on the larger, more identifiable standards prohibiting harassment and discrimination. We need to be more receptive to difference and become more aware of it as a source of strength and appeal, not an impediment to the maintenance of a status quo. -Connection Ideas:Statigies for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001 Actions Increase the number of faculty, staff and administrators of color Increase enrollment of students from minority backgrounds Develop relationship with local/regional minority community Increase the amount of financial aid available to needy students Close the gap in educational achievement by bringing retention and graduation rates for students of color in line with those of the student body as a whole See Also
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