Date: 9.25.17
Chair: St. Amand
Committee Members Present: Creese, McWeeney, Vu, Howard, Alquirtas
Committee Members Absent: N/A
Non-Committee Members: Cordova
Meeting Start Time: 5:00PM
– URI no longer holding Diversity Week
àpicking a month (probably October) and doing a project
à*committee picked Oct 16th (during cultural meeting time) 5-6pm
àNicolette spoke to diversity coordinator for MSSC, will probably do a program on privilege
àfood; pizza, soda
– October = disability awareness month
àdiversity challenge – going to try to actually complete this year
- Involves students/faculty going around campus with assigned “disability” as normal schedule to see how accessible the buildings/classes actually were
- Debrief and write letter to disability services to state what we think could be improved
- *need to pick a date
- discussed logistics = would have to let professors know, would others help you get around?
- Nicolette will talk to health services
*no news on Ted Talk
Meeting Adjourned: 5:15PM