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Diversity and Inclusion: On Campus

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NEWS ON CAMPUS

US Teacher Workforce Lacks Diversity, Puts Student Achievement at Risk

As America’s public schools grow increasingly more diverse every day, a new report released by the Center for American Progress finds that nearly every state is experiencing a large teacher diversity gap, or a significant difference between the number of students and teachers of color.

At some point over the next 10 to 12 years, the nation’s public school K–12 student body will have no one clear racial or ethnic majority. Unfortunately, the makeup of the nation’s teacher workforce has not kept up with these changing demographics. Today teachers of color make up only 17 percent of the teaching force.

In California, the state with the largest teacher diversity gap, 72 percent of students are of color. In contrast, only about 29 percent of teachers are of color, a gap of more than 43 percentage points. The report, entitled "Teacher Diversity Matters: A State-by-State Analysis of Teachers of Color," indicates that such large diversity gaps are common across the country. In fact, more than 20 states have differences of 25 percentage points or more. Read more: Black Engineer.com

Miami U. Flash Mob Promotes Diversity, Inclusion

OXFORD, Ohio -- Running into a professor on campus can be awkward, but it can be even more awkward when that professor is dancing.
That's exactly what happened when a group of Miami University professors staged a flash mob in King Café on Thursday. The professors, some dressed in robes, burst out into a dance move in the middle of the café on the lower level of the King Library. They performed a routine to the Katy Perry song "Firework." Associate professor Denise McCoskey, who co-organized the flash mob, said the professors wanted to do something to get the attention of students as they launch a new program to promote diversity and inclusion at Miami U called "Are You In?" Read more: WLWT Cincinnati

International and Diversity Week begins Nov. 14 (Utah State University)

USU has hosted honorary events for international and multicultural students for 57 years, while the U.S. Board of Education didn't mandate recognition of diverse cultures a priority until the 1990s, according to the president of the International Student Council.
While USU students can expect several traditional International and Diversity Week events, council President Christian Orr said he hopes students can realize, once again, that each year approximately 1,500 international and multicultural students make up part of the Logan campus's total student body.
However, Orr said it's important that domestic students attend diversity events as well.
"If we don't have these students attending these events we are struggling with our effect," Orr said. "We aren't accomplishing what we intended to do."
Campus Diversity and international student organizations will team up this year because programming events run most smoothly this way, Orr said, and it gives more students the opportunity to cross paths. Read more: Utah Statesman