COLLEGE PARK, MD (March, 2016) The College of Education has invited Dr. Samuel Museus, an associate professor at Indiana University Bloomington and an internationally recognized expert in higher education, diversity, and student success, to lead a discussion of culturally engaging campus environments and diversity in the college classroom. Sponsored by the College as part of the Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community, this event will take place on Friday, April 22, from noon to 2:00 p.m. in Tawes Hall, room 0320.
As the director of Indiana University’s Culturally Engaging Campus Environments Project, Dr. Museus has developed a model outlining nine key indicators that characterize campus environments that are positive, engaging, empowering and validating for racially diverse, low-income, international and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally students. At his talk in late April, entitled “Cultural Relevance in the College Curriculum: Merging Theory, Evidence, and Student Voice to Advance a Vision for Racial Equity on Campus,” he will expound on this model in dialogue with three undergraduate students in the College of Education.
The three participating undergrads are Ja’Nya Banks, Timothy Chen, and Giuseppe Rebaudengo. Ja’Nya is a sophomore Special Education major, minoring in Public Leadership. Timothy is a junior majoring in Middle School Math and Science Education, with a minor in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL). And Giuseppe is a junior pursuing a dual degree in Elementary Education and Spanish Language & Linguistics, as well as a dual minor in Public Leadership and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL).
The Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community are a series of events, lectures, symposia, discussions, and listening sessions for faculty, staff, students, and alumni to help advance discussions of identity, difference, and commonality. An ongoing initiative that will highlight one aspect of the intersecting quality of diversity at a time, in their first year the Maryland Dialogues are emphasizing issues of race and racism, not in isolation but in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, language, religion, and disability, each of which will be the subject of future focus.
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