Membership
Meetings
Budget
Subcommittees
University Diversity Committee Actions/Activities/Projects
Memberships & Appointments
The University Diversity Committee (UDC) was co-chaired for the fourth year by Frank L. Rincon, Vice President for Student Affairs and Sue Brotherton, Associate Professosr, Educational Psychology, who served as co-chair for the first time this year. The Committee consisted of 21 members from the university as follows: 4 students, 5 faculty, 4 employees, and 8 administrators. Nine new members joined the UDC this year. A steering Committee was formed once again and consisted of Frank L.Rincon, Sue Brotherton, Jean Peacock, Namcy Simpson, and John Futch. This year's membership list is attached.
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Meetings:
The UDC Committee held its first meeting on October 7, 1998 and surveyed the membership regarding the best meeting days and times. It was agreed to meet bi-weekly throughout the year. The Steering Committee met bi-weekly on alternate weeks throughout the year.
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Budget
The UDC Committee carried over $1,945.00 which was added to the $20,000.00 baseline budget for 1998-99 for a balance of $21,945.00. THe Committee expended $12,139 leaving balance of $9,806.00 which will be carried over to 1999-2000.
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Subcommittees
The committee members continued the following subcommittees: Diversity Conference Committee (campuswide membership), Events, HOme Page and Awareness/Staff Development. The Diversity Awards Committee was formed separatedly from the Events Committee this year. Following is a brid description of each subcommittee:
- Diversity Conference:(See attached Conference Report) A request for volunteers from the university community was issued by the UDC Co-Chairs, and a number of faculty and stafff responded. This subcommittee was responsible for creating and implementing a diversity conference during the Spring of 1999, Most of last year's volunteers from throughout the university continued to serve on this committee. A few new members joined. Sue Brotherton served as chair for the second year.
- Events Subcommittee:This subcommittee continued with the responsibility of issuing a call for proposals from within the university for funding for co-sponsorship of programs and events that promote diversity. THe proposal form for this year's funding requests was improved and was also placed online as part of the UDC Web page. The UDC decided to continue funding a maximum of $500.00 for co-sponsored programs. Members os the subcommittee included John Futch, Jean Peacock, Mary Moya, Ching-Hua Wang, and Abbake Amaira.
- Home Page Subcommittee:This subcommittee continued to update the UDC Web page for this campus. The subcommittee requested and received continuing funds from the UDC to maintain and upgrade the home page. Student assistants were hired and continued to enhance the page. The UDC Home Page is connected to the national Diversity Works network that includes approximatedly three hundred other colleges and universities. This network is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and includes faculty and staff from the Lily Endowment diversity project, and institutions beloinging to the following consortia: WICHE (Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education), Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at Evergreen State College, ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) and GLCA (Great Lakes College Association). The subcommittee consisted of Xiwen Zhang and Sam Romero.
- Awareness/Staff Development:This subcommittee continued its work of developing and presenting awareness/staff development programs on diversity to the university community. Programs carried out by the subcommittee are described below in another section. The subcommittee consisted of Dale West, Karen Logue, Sue Brotherton.
- Diversity Awards: This subcommittee was formed as a separate committee from th Events subcommittee this year because of the magnitude of work involved in the re-writing and distribution of the nomination forms and the selection process from which five candidates were selected to receive awards for their significant contributions to further the cause of issues of diversity at CSUSB. The subcommittee consisted of Milton Clark, Mary Moya, Ching Hua Wang and Jason Colby.
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Diversity Action Strategic Action Plan
This year, the Committee was very active and accomplished much. The following is a list of university diversity-related speakers, events, events and programs that were promoted or co-sponsored by the UDC.
Committee-Related Activities
- Six member of the University Diversity Committee participated on the Diversity Strategic Plan Liaison Subcommittee and reported back to the UDC.
- Sue Brotherton conducted diversity workshops in the summer of 1998 for teh entire campus. The University Diversity Committee contributed some of the funding for these presentations.
- Tom Rivera, Undergraduate Students, Walter Hawkins, Undergraduate Students, Otto Chang, Accounting and Finance, Mo Vaziri, Accounting and Finance and Javier Torner, Natural Sciences are this year's recipients of teh Diversity Award. All were introduced at the Diversity Conference Opening Ceremonies and each will receive their awards at the 1999 Fall Convocation.
- The Diversity Conference was held at the CSUSB Student Union Events Center on Friday, April 30. The theme was "Hearts and Minds, Connecting Through Diversity". The keynote speaker was Dr. Bernita Berry with a special workshop presentation by Dr. Al McLeod. The Conference offered 21 workshops and approximately 274 adults and 700 high school/middle school students were in attendance.
Co-Sponsored Activities
- Hildegard Conference
- "A Celebration of African American Arts" choreographed by Donald McKayle.
- Ricardo Pimentel and Omar Ramirez who spoke on Hispanic culture in the Inland Empire and ties to the university.
- Disabilities Awareness Day speaker, Bob Love from the Chicago Bulls.
# Associaton of Latino Faculty, Staff and students' graduation banquet and awards program.
- Entertainment by Ann Lippert and David Pavao for the Gaym, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual Union Event.
- Undergraduate Studies Survey on the ethnic and racial diversity changes within the Inland Empire school districts.
- Art Exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts from the collection of Dr. Benson Harer.
- African/African American Graduation Recognition Banquet Speaker, Dr. Daria Burnett.
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