California State University, San Bernardino

University Diversity Committee

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Present: Baeza, Carswell, Carthen, Clark, Constant, Gil-Gomez, Murillo-Moyeda,

Texeira, Torrez, Zhang

Absent: Agars, Asbell, Brotherton, Daniels, Futch, Kakihara, McDonald, Ramirez

1. Minutes

Constant moved to approve the minutes. Zhang second. Motion approved.

2. Budget Report

Valencia reported she disencumbered the funds for the International Institute; they were unable to reschedule their speaker in the Spring quarter. Clark announced that he approved an event funding request from the Chinese/Japanese/Korean Club for $1000.

Gil-Gomez moved to send a letter to the 2003/04 diversity award deadline of June 2006. Baeza second. Motion approved. Gil Gomez moved all future diversity award recipients will have one year to use their travel funds once they are notified. Baeza second. Motion approved. Clark asked if the same time table apply to students. Torrez suggested the travel should occur while the student is enrolled in CSUSB. Torrez suggested giving community award winners passes to the Library. Clark’s question will be tabled at this time.

3. Subcommittee Report

1. Funding Requests

1. Anthropology Department

Murillo-Moyeda presented the request for $800 from K. Nadeau for Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz’s honorarium. The subcommittee recommended approval. UDC agreed to approve.

2. LBSA

Murillo-Moyeda presented the LBSA request for $500 for a Multicultural Show – Genesis. Motion fails to pass with one abstention.

3. Black Faculty, Staff and Students

Murillo-Moyeda presented the request for $1000 for the 13^th Annual African/African American Graduating Students Recognition Ceremony. Subcommittee recommended approval. Clark requested a stipulation that a set amount of the funds be used for students who would otherwise be unable to attend. The amount would be determined by the association. UDC approved the request.

2. Diversity Initiative Grants

Gil-Gomez provided to Torrez the student portion that Andrade worked on during the winter quarter. Carswell inquired about the status of reports from previous recipients. Clark will check with Agars on the status of the reports.

3. Conversation of Diversity

Clark would like all UDC members to attend the Conversations of Diversity event. Zhang has added Conversations on Diversity on the website. Murillo-Moyeda stated most of the attendees were students from classes. Constant suggested the President encourage staff to attend without using vacation time and/or rescheduling their lunch hour. Texeira asked if credit could be given to those who attend diversity events.

Zhang suggested adding the Conversations of Diversity schedule to . Remind Clark to send a note to Karnig to add the pictures to the video played at Convocation.

The subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, June 7^th at 3 – 4 p.m. in SH 112.

The next Conversations on Diversity is Thursday, October 13 from 2- 4. The Diversity awards will be given from 2:00 – 2:30 and then the performance will be from 2:30 – 4:00.

4. Web Page

Zhang provided the updates made to the UDC website.

5. Diversity Awards

Valencia distributed copies of the nominations to the subcommitte. Carthen moved to waive the deadline to accept one more nomination. Torrez second. Motion approved.

4. New Business

Clark suggested UDC giving an award to a UDC member for their service. Clark would like to honor McDonald and draft a resolution. Clark and Gil-Gomez will work on this and forward it to the UDC members. Torrez moved to set aside $200 for a plaque for Chief McDonald. Carthen second. Motion approved.

Clark stated there was an interest from B Rice to participate in UDC.

Clark provided an update on the responses he received from the message sent to campus. Gil-Gomez provided an update on Asbell’s request to post the statement in “The Chronicle”. Their response is they could not post an individual or group position unless they purchased the ad space. Gil-Gomez moved that UDC support her fact finding mission with the newspaper to communicate with the advisor what might be done to post the UDC statement in the newspaper with no cost to UDC. Murillo-Moyeda suggested other options to post the statement in the newspaper. Carthen suggested working with the student representative. Motion approved.

Ombudsperson

The position was announced today on campus