University of Wisconsin-Madison

Best-practices poster presentations
Host Bill Steffenhagen, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Note: Best-practices poster presentations will be hosted until the next event and available for viewing until 3:30 p.m.

1. Building A Curriculum of Empowerment: American Indian Studies 150 and 151
   Aaron Bird Bear, American Indian Student Academic Services
2. Learning through Diversity in the Delta Program
   Chris Carlson-Dakes, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching & Learning CIRTL-Delta
3. Bridging Cross-Cultural Communication
   Reynaldo Morales, Cultural Linguistic Services, Office of Human Resource Development
4. Student SEED: a social justice seminar and OED Learning Communities: authentic inclusion through dialogue
   Will Clifton, Office for Equity and Diversity
5. The Multicultural Graduate Network
   Janet Koloen, Jorge Rodriguez, Dorothy Sanchez, Graduate School
6. International Students as Leaders in Diversity Stephanie Cowan, May Lee Moua-Vue, Marilee Sushoreba, International Student Services
7. Guiding Principles for Honors
   Mary Czynszak-Lyne, Molly McGlone, College of Letters & Science Honors Program
8. Nurturing Math Groupies: Worksheets and Small Groups in Large Math Lectures
   Shirin Malekpour, Mathematics Department
9. Lessons Learned: Administrative and Support Services Throughout the Pipeline
   Gloria Hawkins, School of Medicine and Public Health
10. Re-structuring and Change at UW–Madison: MCSC Strategies to Survive and Thrive
    Kevin Dopwell, Katrina Flores, Multi-Cultural Student Coalition
11. Building a Diverse Pipeline to College Through PEOPLE
    Jackie DeWalt, Harold Baker, Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE)
12. Efforts in Recruiting Diversity: The UW–Madison Police Experience
    Kenneth Kerl, University Police Department
13. Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Workshop for Search Committee Chairs and Members
    Eve Fine, Women In Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI)
14. Partnership Success Increases Diversity in Pre-College Programs
    Nancy Blake, School of Education Outreach

• Welcome: Bernice Durand
  Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate
• South Indian “Welcoming Lamp Dance and Traditional Kummi (Clap Dance)”
  Wisconsin Tamil Sangam Dancing Ladies
• Welcome by the Chancellor
  Diversity: Engagement, Resistance, Change
• Hmong Dance
  "Ib Sim Neej," by Mai Paj Ntoo Xiong with the Eternity and GJ Groups
• Know Our Story: Hear Their Cries!
  Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt, photo-journalist, human rights activist, expert on Southeast Asia, nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 and again in 2000 for her work on behalf of the Hmong tribal people of Laos.

Lunch

• Learning Community, Learning Self: Personal Transformations
  Host Sharad Chandarana, Division of Continuing Studies
• Spoken Word: Sofia Aguirreche Snow, First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community. Introduction by Josh Healy, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI)
• Leadership in Action (LIA)
  Patsy Brooks, UW–Madison Alumna, Parent of UW–Madison student, community member
• Building Our Vision for 2008 and Beyond
  Provost Pat Farrell

Building a Diverse Pipeline to College Through PEOPLE
Jackie DeWalt and Harold Baker, Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE)

You may think you know what PEOPLE is all about, but let us give you the facts. This highly successful, nationally recognized college pipeline program is an important component of Plan 2008 and it serves the university’s major campus diversity initiative. Please join us we discuss the PEOPLE Program design and the successful strategies that have enabled it to pipeline over 200 Wisconsin students of color into UW–Madison.

Guiding Principles for Honors
Mary Czynszak-Lyne and Molly McGlone, College of Letters and Science Honors Program

The Guiding Principles were developed to help create an inclusive, respectful and welcoming work environment. Through a series of meeting we developed a Guiding Principles wheel and mission statement reflecting our shared values.

Power, Privilege and Greek Life
Barb Kautz, Student Organization Office

Stereotypes that are sometimes associated with Greek Life, are words like: sexist, elitists and homophobic. Come find out about the changing face of the Greek Community here at UW and about programs that center around diversity issues including: the Greek Week Spotlight Series, the Fraternity Action Coalition and collaborative events such as the Greek 150 Anniversary. Also, learn more about the National Pan-Hellenic Council (Historically African American Fraternities and Sororities) and the Multicultural Greek Council and hear about highlights from their first ever Student of Color Greek Retreat.

2008 and Beyond

Pat Farrell, Teri Balser and Bernice Durand

Join Provost Pat Farrell to talk about diversity and climate goals and strategies. This structured dialog will be facilitated by Prof. Teri Balser, Co-Chair of the Self-Study Reaccreditation Theme on Building a Welcoming, Respectful and Empowered UW–Madison Community. Bernice Durand is Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate.

A Case Study on Integrating Academics and Student Services: The LGBT Campus Center
Eric Trekell, LGBT Center

Tours and day-long display

A Way of Knowing: Hmong Cultural Exhibition
Mai Na Lee, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, docent

The richness of a culture and the history of its people is reflected in the arts and crafts that they create to meet their day-to-day as well as spiritual and aesthetic needs. Viewing and appreciating Hmong arts and crafts is a way of learning about the Hmong people who are now part of the wonderfully diverse tapestry of American society. Dr. Mai Na Lee will talk about the various facets of Hmong life, history and culture.

Note: The data display will be available for viewing until 3:30 p.m.

Annual Progress Report on Plan 2008
Academic Planning and Analysis

This annual report reflects on progress to the goals of Plan 2008, including analysis of the educational pipeline and pre-college programs, trends in enrollment at all levels, patterns of retention and graduation rates, faculty and staff numbers and faculty hiring, and survey results related to climate issues. The series of 14 posters, prepared by the office of Academic Planning and Analysis (APA), will be available for viewing all day until 3:30 p.m. Jocelyn Milner will provide a brief orientation at the beginning of each breakout session time. APA staffers (Jocelyn Milner, Bruce Beck, Margaret Harrigan, and Clare Huhn) will be present to answer questions during the breakout sessions. This presentation is available at APA’s web site.

Class–More then Money

Carolyn Bell, Division of University Housing

This presentation will be a discussion regarding college students from poverty. Accessing higher education is the one of the challenges for college students from poverty—often this is just the beginning of the adversities students from poverty face on college campuses. These challenges include encountering many of the middle-class hidden rules that most institutions of higher education operate.

Discussion and Book Signing
Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt, keynote speaker and author of Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, The Americans, and The Secret Wars for Laos 1942-1992

Join Dr. Jane for questions and answers, discussion, conversation and a personal book signing. Her book can be purchased from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the foyer of Great Hall, or at the State Street University Bookstore. Dr. Hamilton-Merritt was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for her coverage of the Vietnam War, and twice for a Nobel Peace Prize (in 1998 and again in 2000) for her work on behalf of the Hmong people of Laos. She has written extensively on the experience of the Hmong people and her most recent book Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, The Americans, and The Secret Wars for Laos 1942–1992 (Indiana University Press) is a documentary of the unsung heroes and sacrifices the Hmong people made to assist the Americans in the secret wars in Laos. The book was nationally acclaimed and was selected as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History.

Intercultural Dialogues: More than just a conversation… More than just a class…
Kassie Hauser and Amandeep Kaur, Multi-Cultural Student Coalition

We will run a mock session of an InterCultural Dialogues class so participants can experience it. The session will include introductions, thoughts on how the class got started, and then we will do a few activities that we would traditionally do in a class as well. Come prepared to talk about how ICD can help achieve the goals of Plan 2008.

Keeping your Eyes on the Ultimate Prize: Using the Self as Responsive Instrument for Inclusive Excellence, Equity, and Social Justice
Hazel Symonette, Offices of the Dean of Students

Educational processes and practices are inextricably bound up with culture and context. Educators are privileged authorities with social powers to define reality and make impactful judgments about others. Yet, from our privileged standpoints, we often look but still do not see, listen but do not hear, touch but do not feel. Such limitations handicap our truth-discerning, trust-building, teaching/learning and “judging” capacities. When we fail to systematically address the ways our sociocultural lenses, filters and frames may obscure or distort more than they illuminate, we may do violence to others' truths. Such failures erode our capacities for actualizing inclusive excellence and success for all. This session spotlights the need for ongoing personal homework in order to calibrate and cultivate our most valuable resource—the self—as an open and expansively learning-centered, responsive instrument.

What In The World Does Diversity Have To Do With Me?!
Rodney Horikawa, University Health Services; Seema Kapani and Will Clifton, Office for Equity and Diversity

Do you ever find yourself thinking: “Diversity, what in the world does it have to do with me?!” Many of us feel that we don't have anything to do with diversity. Well, UW–Madison is committed to creating community which invites and includes all voices. So, how do we make sure that each one of us feels included and that our voices are heard? Join us to strategize how we accomplish being authentically inclusive.