Welcome to Diversity Briefings: 11/23/2010
Volume 1, Issue 21. Published Each Monday - Friday
Welcome back to Diversity Briefings. Please note, there will be no published issues from Nov. 24 - Nov. 30. Next issue will be published Dec. 1. Have a wonderful holiday. Susan
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Wake up to your power
Rupert Nacoste, guest columnist for Technician Online: “I started working on diversity issues in the U.S. Navy in 1974. Back then diversity was all about black-white relations. But diversity in black and white is dead. Neo-diversity is what we live with today; a time and circumstance when for all of us, contact with people who do not look like us happens every day, and is unavoidable. Many people are having trouble adjusting to our neo-diversity America. Not so much because of prejudice and bigotry, but because of uncertainty and anxiety about how to interact.”
http://www.technicianonline.com/viewpoint/wake-up-to-your-power-1.2414892
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Diversity Student Council looks into starting "Power of Words" campaign
Kylie Corbett, reporting for The Lariat: Saddleback College's Diversity Student Council is currently looking into ideas for future events and campaigns. The promotion of awareness of social equality issues surrounding LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people has greatly influenced DSC's interest in starting a Power of Words campaign. DSC will soon be purchasing a banner and flag due to the increasing numbers of suicides as the result of peer bullying. The banner and flag will encompass the idea of equality. This campaign will emphasize the use of better words and the importance of accepting one another.
http://www.lariatnews.com/life/diversity-student-council-looks-into-starting-power-of-words-campaign-1.2414460
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Sandra Ciseneros Lectures at UCSB
Co-sponsor Mario Garcia, professor of Chicano Studies here at UCSB, discussed why he specifically wanted Cisneros to lecture on campus.“She is without question the finest Latina writer in the country and I wanted to expose my students to her. I am using her book House on Mango Street in my class so I wanted to put a face to the book.”
http://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2010/11/sandra-ciseneros-lectures-at-ucsb
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Lynchburg schools under review for civil rights compliance; U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is conducting the review.
Karen Kiley reporting for WDBJ7: The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) usually investigates complaints of civil rights violations in schools. It gets about 6,900 of those a year, nationwide, and investigates about one-third of those complaints. But now, D.O.E. officials say the OCR is trying to be proactive and is doing "random" compliance checks of school systems. Nearly two dozen of these types of investigations are currently underway, nationwide.
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj-lynchburg-schools-under-review-112210,0,5037255.story
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Travelers Share Tales of Airport Security-Induced Humiliation
Sandra Quinlan reporting for Justice News Flash: West Palm Beach, FL—Two travelers claimed they were humiliated while undergoing enhanced pat-downs by Transportation Safety Administration agents on two separate occasions in the last few months. The incidents, both of which involved cancer survivors, occurred at airports in Michigan and North Carolina.
http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/11/23/travelers-airport-security-induced-humiliation_201011236239.html
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Companies Must Manage the ‘ISMs’ When Working With Diversity
Susan Klopfer writes
-- “We have some great new and positive ideas for restructuring our sales workforce, ultimately helping our entire company to get through this recession. But there is so much resistance to diversity that I can’t implement all of our plans and I am coming to you for some help. How do I encourage our sales division to make these changes?”
--Sales Vice President, Rema, describes her dilemma to members of her company’s special change management team during their weekly meeting at WXYZ Company.
--“Diversity is always a tough area of change,” says Pete, a team member who initiated its organization five years earlier. Pete had taken diversity management classes in college, becoming a devout follower of diversity gurus R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. and William Sonnenschein. He persuaded his company’s CEO to organize this group that advises other managers as they implement change throughout the organization. “We call this time of most resistance during any change project as being in the Delta,” he explains to Rema.
--“We know you’ve worked hard to get everyone behind the sales restructuring project, and it was especially critical that you considered the diversity component in these changes,” another group member, Marilyn, joins in.
--“But I am not surprised that you are encountering serious resistance from line managers, employees, and even senior managers. Resistance typically rises from many sources.”
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http://diversitythoughts.blogspot.com/p/companies-must-manage-isms-when-working.html
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