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April 30, 2009

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Diversity Committee Meeting 4-30-09

  1. Thanks for helping with International Fest
  2. Beverly Watts is available in August 6, 13, and 20 to talk about Poverty
  3. Margaret Casado is here to tell us about her poverty project and how we can support her
    1. She’s on the task force for the campus, and the theme is poverty.
    2. Tahirah wanted to participate with our discussion today
    3. Poverty/economic disparity is a facet of diversity

i. Margaret brought handouts pertaining to collaboration between the task force and the diversity committee

ii. They’re working poverty into the curriculum and trying to get students to consider how poverty can play into their work and their lives.

1. There are some classes on social justice and the environment that poverty may fit into

2. We have the LOGS? program, but it’s not a library program, it’s just something that individuals have gotten involved in.

3. The members of the task force have been asked to talk to ppl in their units about their involvement

iii. “The Glass Castle” – book on poverty in Virginia, suggested reading

iv. There are things that the committee can/will do

1. Culture corner

2. 1st floor display

3. Let’s talk about it

a. Beverly Watts from the human rights commission

b. Bharat Mehra from SIS has written on technology and poverty, so he might be a good speaker as well

i. Bring him in Spring 2010 – Margaret will get with him.

4. Film Series – Pursuit of Happyness, Slumdog Millionaire, a documentary out of Appleshop dealing with poverty in the mountains. Trisha will ask Greg Womac if we have Appleshop films

a. Will there be discussion before and after the films?

i. Unless we have a speaker after or a literary involvement, usually not

ii. We COULD have a set of questions for ppl to consider and have a discussion leader for the films

iii. Partner with ppl from soup kitchens and have them come by and tell us about hunger

1. Canned food drive – this could work at every even we do

2. We could get the Greek organizations to get in on canned food drives

3. Solicit leftovers from Panera, Einstein’s Bagels, etc.

5. Website for the life of the mind by Tahirah and Thura

6. Volunteer project?

a. Something dealing with literacy, reading, etc.

i. People will probably need to be screened before being permitted into school

b. Tahirah did outreach via Theory and Practice in Teaching Education (TPTE) in the form of a read-in

v. This is a yearlong endeavor, so we don’t need to do it all in one month. September = Volaware, October = Native American student activities.

vi. There needs to be a clear understanding of what the Diversity Committee is responsible for here

1. Let’s Talk About it – usually with light refreshments

2. Films – though getting discussion leaders might be tricky

3. Culture Corner

a. The next one is on this topic and we need to get started by the first week of June

b. Margaret Casado – the culture corner should be set up in time for incoming orientation groups

c. We need 100-150 books

i. Thura, Jeanine, Allison, and Damon will work on this

4. Display case

a. Shantrie, Tahirah, Jeanine, Thura, and probably Martha will help.

vii. Laurie is busy in June with Orientations, free in May. Jerry will probably be busy after July

viii. Is there a way to get students thinking creatively about how to address this problem? Build student engagement

1. JW – The NING site might be helpful in this

2. TM – The Life of the Mind does a lot of this

3. AR – Diversity Committee or Culture Corner might need a facebook page

4. See what other avenues to help with poverty are being explored on campus

a. Read up on “technology mitigates poverty”

i. Damon will ask Velynda about the cellphone she got – recycled bottle phone

April 16th 2009

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  1. Announcements
    1. Laurie – Native American Heritage Night. 2nd annual on 4/20/09 @ McClung Museum @ 7:30. We will publicize this. Post Bills about the library and put it on our website.

i. Publicity materials will be sent to Allison Roberts (Jerry will send them to Allison)

  1. International Festival next Friday. Schedule is as follows:

8:00-9:30      Damon Campbell, Thura Mack

9:30-11:00    Jeanine Williamson, Thura Mack

11:00-12:30  Trisha Brady, Joanne Deeken

12:30-2:00    Laurie Roberson, Jerry Roberson

2:00-4:00     Shantrie Collins, Allison Roberts, Marielle Veve

    1. Thura will fill in as needed
  2. Support for Possum Queen (Trisha Brady vs Michelle Brannen) – to support staff activities within the library
    1. How can we support this?

i. Trisha will have a friend with a pet possum in

ii. Trisha will solicit funds from others within the library

iii. Possible bake sale

iv. This goes on til May 12th, at which point the winner is crowned. This will happen during the Spirit Awards in the Hermitage room at the UC.

1. Marielle will email Laurie information RE the spirit awards and such.

2. Trisha will send updates to the committee as well.

  1. Let’s Talk About it with Native American Students
    1. We’ll hold off on this til fall – during Native American month
    2. Jerry says that we should pick a day in October and he’ll take it back to the Native American Students – this way, the group will be aware.

i. 10/01 is the pow-wow

ii. 10/16 – McClung Cherokee days

iii. The 15th would be good, but it’s during fall break..

iv. We could do ours on the 8th.

1. This is now our tentative date. Midterms jump around depending on the teacher, so some students will be busy, others will not (so says Trisha).

  1. Invite VolAware ppl to have a Let’s Talk About It
    1. VolAware helps students in crisis
    2. As suggested by Dean Maxine
    3. We could do this Summer of fall.

i. AR says it might be lost in the summer

ii. Jerry suggests doing this after the first test

1. Are we focusing this on staff or students? Staff.

a. Trisha suggests training for high stress situations when we’re not high stressed.

iii. Ppl from other branches and portions of campus would have a better chance of attending if it falls in the summer.

1. We also need to be aware of summer vacations and ALA

iv. Late August/Early September, when we’re gearing up but before things are in full swing

1. JW will check with VolAware for times in Early September and see what they have.

2. We could put this in the Beacon to publicize, but students mainly came for LGBT session and Beverly Watts.

3. JW wants this to be focused on staff – helping us help students.

4. We should also encourage our student workers to attend, as per JR

  1. Collaborating with Margaret Casado on poverty issues
    1. Culture corner?
    2. Some other way of showing our support, as this is a diversity issue

i. How can we go beyond the culture corner? JR suggests:

1. there will probably be campus-wide activities related to this

2. There are schools in the immediate area with high rates of child poverty – maybe there’s something we can do RE a visit to the school (work with Tahira A Williams on outreach) possibly host a read in at the school.

3. Program to get books to the kids or do a fundraiser?

a. AR – will this be ongoing? It’s a large undertaking.

b. We can adopt a school or a class – do it on a small scale as per JR

c. We’d need a lot of approval to actually give books to kids, but it would be effective publicity for UT and for higher education in general

d. Encourage volunteerism of some sort.

ii. Margaret has not talked with TM or JW about this yet

iii. We’ll want to do something that’s not only meaningful, but that supports Margaret

iv. This could be a service learning opportunity (like the Baker Center does). Bob Kronick from College of Education sometimes brings in younger students and exposes them to UT. They’d be in the library for 45 minutes or so. Allison Roberts and Chris Durman have participated in this.

    1. This issue is already part of Ready For The World (The Glass Castle is the book that they’ll be reading)
    2. AR might develop a webpage resource for dealing with this
    3. We can also scour the web for outreach models and bring them back to the group

Febuary 19, 2009

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2/19/2009

Diversity Committee Meeting Notes


Announcements:

1. Debrief for the Black Issues Conference

2. Culture Corner (Completed)

3. Let’s Talk About It

4. Updates (Jerry Roberson)

5. International Festival

Announcements

I. Debrief for the black issues conference

a. TM: It was what I had hoped for, in that it created some unity and a different level of us getting to know one another on the diversity committee

i. Teresa Walker came and supported and brought drinks

ii. Shantrie and Damon attended

iii. Audience was small, but they asked a lot of questions

iv. Good experience overall

b. Jeanine feels the audience was receptive and asked a lot of questions

c. A lot of the questions were about ebooks and kindle (ebook reader) units

d. Quite a few people attended the conference overall

i. Diversity committee members that participated and/or attended and people from the library have been presented with plaques by Thura

e. We got invited to present at a conference on the 28th (I-LEAD conference)

i. This has hopefully lead to another partnership

II. Student Recognition, Wed, 3/25/09 @ 2pm, probably in the staff room

a. Students that have worked here for two years or more.

i. They get to pick a book to be plated in their honor

ii. We try to get pictures of the students so that people will know who they are

1. This has sometimes been displayed @ the Melrose entrance

b. Diversity committee will help decorate

i. We’ll raid the closet and see if we’ve decorations from past occasions

ii. Trisha will see what kind of decorations they have in the Studio

c. We got $ for cake and punch from Barbara

III. Culture Corner is done and in alphabetical order

a. Usually in order by subject, but done in alpha due to time constraints

IV. Let’s Talk About it program ideas (Jerry isn’t here to do updates)

a. He talked to the Native American Students about a panel discussion, and they were receptive

b. We might be involved with a Ready for the World initiative in Albuquerque, as Trisha will be helping to teach people how to make a documentary

c. Anazette ideas for let’s talk about it

i. No burning issues

ii. There’s a dialog on campus about dealing with bias:

1. Gender

2. Sexual Orientation

3. Hate Speech

a. Do we have someone come in and talk about bias protocols?

iii. We are moving into Women’s (issues? History? Rights?) month, so this may be a pertinent topic

1. We’ll need to find a resource/person to come in and educate us on the topic

2. We will keep this in our thoughts and get in touch will Jerry and see what he can do

a. What kind of support will we need to pull this off?

i. PR

ii. Location

b. Bob Eldridge should be accessible to us

iv. Our Let’s Talk About It RE Melungeons (Wayne Winkle) was relatively easy to pull together

1. He was approachable, local, and did not charge

v. Appalachian film screening at the Tomato Head (Trisha Brady knows about this) – Appalachian Film Series Monday, March 2nd 7pm @ The Tomato Head Market Square,

1. Rural Appalachian poverty might be a good topic

vi. Campus Diversity and Intercultural meeting yesterday 2-18-09 touched on this as an issue

vii. The Heartland Series is in danger of being cancelled – there is a group forming to keep it going – Trisha Brady

1. Bill Landry could come. We have the entire series, and he would probably come in and speak.

2. There’s a Facebook group created for this, so we’d probably have an instant audience

3. Publicity would probably be easy

a. If we’re raising awareness, he’d probably come

4. We won’t necessarily take a stand, but we can provide a platform for Bill to educate people on the series

viii. We could use the Heartland Series as a let’s talk about it and use Jerry’s as the “other” LTAI

V. International Fair – Friday, 4/24/09

a. The Diversity Committee traditionally participates in this

i. We get a table and take turns staffing the table

ii. Took turns staffing, usually in pairs

iii. Only people on the committee can staff the table

1. Would we be willing to have the committee have a table for this year?

2. We can talk about this later, but it seems like most of us are interested in staffing the table.

a. Annazette can bring literature from disability services

b. Laurie can bring literature from her interests

c. We had a board and pins so people could come by and place a pin in their geographic region of origin

i. We should repeat this

3. The way Let’s Talk About It is going now, we’ve not gotten a flurry of people offering topics

iv. Annazette suggests letting people know that we exist as a committee

1. Are we on anyone’s radar?

a. Yes – a lot of the colleges use us as a model

2. How do regular people find out about us?

a. We’re a library committee – We’re linked under the UT page under diversity.

3. When we first made ourselves known 5 years ago, people helped us define diversity thru input. We get questions nationally even now.

a. We could probably shoot our upcoming events to interested parties if we email people that are affiliated with other diversity efforts (use the contacts from the people sharing the diversity page with us – we can use their contacts as our own).

b. Allison could search for contacts

c. This could be shown as outreach on our annual report

v. How aware are we of incidents of hate speech/graffiti?

1. Here, we take pictures of things prior to erasures, repaints

2. Some places record this data and make sure that the incident is public

3. The dean might come and speak to us about protocol for this kind of thing

vi. Protocol for stressed students?

1. How to deal with students dealing with distress/stress

a. Things should be reported, not simply observed

2. We might be able to make this a LTAI or a staff-only talk (as per JW). Others might want to attend and offer input, however (as per TB).

vii. How do we initiate this?

1. Contact Dean Thompson-Davis, have her explain it to us

2. We should be aware of these things, as people might look to us for information about these things

a. PR-wise, the university does not want to sweep things under the rug. From a diversity and equal-opportunity standpoint, we should be aware and make others aware.

3. As a committee, should we have Dean Davis talk to us? Do we have a role here? Can we be part of a solution?

a. Annazette feels like this could be a good first step.

i. Using our position to inform others and raise awareness of issues and the protocol is a good decision.

4. We could have an open meeting, Annazette’s staff could attend

a. Could tell us how to be a responsible citizen in these situations

i. Annazette feels that we should start within our group, then we could discuss it in a LTAI. The dean of student affairs could talk at the LTAI

b. Who will contact the dean of student affairs?

i. We’ve got nothing for March

ii. JW will contact her and see if she can talk to our committee at the next meeting.

viii. A LTAI featuring people that attended the inauguration and played a role could be viable as well.

September 11, 2008

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Announcements

JW culture corner is done — it’s small but it is complete

Updates to the Diversity calendar

AR has email Eric Bledsoe, but has not heard back. Will call him.

She uses veterans administration calendar, Kentucky University calendar, and a Pagan calendar from the UK for events and puts them on the calendar in order

It’s set up to show events for the current month – there’s also options to see other months/years

AR will figure out how to convert it into an RSS feed in order to have it feed into the UT calendar

October 16th LGBT Program update

TM — Hodges, Mary E. Greer room at 1pm, we will host the LGBT speakers

The main program is in the evening so the earlier portion of the day will be filler

Let’s Talk about It program – will last no more than 1 hour including Q and A

Opportunity to work with the LGBT commission AND do a Let’s Talk about It program

Writer’s in the library will have a reception/book signing in the library right before 1pm

RW or someone from the LGBT committee will introduce the speakers And we only need to make sure things are running smoothly

Be sure the room is set up for a powerpoint

authors are involved in a digital initiative, so we’ll be looking at some of their work

Our in-house CMN department will provide publicity to the Beacon, New Sentinel, Radio Station, and around campus

We won’t have to worry about food – writers in the library people will do refreshments. They will provide it, though we may need to help them set up.

Films

Priscilla of the Desert

Brokeback mountain

If these walls could talk

Discussion for November and December projects, including ideas for the next culture corner

November Ideas

Last year native Americans month – co-sponsored with an up and coming group, put on a film series and did a poster campaign.

TB – we should do a poster campaign again

LR – (WHICH GROUP?)students had their first meeting recently and want to have another film series

Also planning Elder’s Day celebration in late October (pow wow drum, dancers, beadwork in the amphitheater – Joyce Dugan is invited to speak

AR could they have a demonstration in November?

If they do smudging?, it must be done outside of the library for fire safety reasons

JW – Consensus for films for native American month again?

TB – We can do something else for our culture corner and still help with the series

We will promote outside of the library – send publicity to departments and organizations that would be interested in such a program

The students in the group can select the films, and we will work with LR on publicity coordination advertised on the Diversity page.

AR – @ TN, Campus CMN, and TN will be notified. The series will be advertised on the Diversity webpage

December ideas

December is Universal Human Rights Month

JW – Disability as a matter of family

3 speakers from the college of Nursing

Talked about mental and/or physical disabilities that people often encounter

Watched a film RE these disabilities and had a discussion (some personal experience was discussed)

12/3 – international day of disabled persons

Disability month is October – do we want to do anything in November?

AM — We should focus on LGBT, save disability for another month or year

JW – JR suggested doing intercultural holidays. We did religions of the world over the summer, could do more. JR also suggested programming on people of Scots and Irish descent

TM – we could do more disability stuff

AM – we could do human rights and cover disabilities as a subset

If we had money, we could bring in leaders in the human rights field

If we don’t, we can bring in a local human rights person (Beverly Watts, TN Human Rights commission)

AM can have her staff attend the programming and is connected with Beverly Watts

Gender issues in the workplace (equal pay) could address this without being overtly political

LR – Offer employees credit for HR – 128 to bolster numbers and promote attendance?

TM – we can probably do this. TM will get forms and look into this possibility

The people that attend can fill out the forms and we can get the forms to the office

We can advertise that it’s for recognized credit (if we can prove that it’s a worthwhile lecture or interactive program)

Will immediate notice to Beverly be enough time for her to be able to do this?

JW – we can schedule her for a different month – we’re not bound by the calendar

AM – Beverly could tell us about some opportunities to talk about some issues we might have missed, punch through any “groupthink” that we might be experiencing

JW – will there be an honorarium (payment for travel, etc for her attendance)?

AM – as a state employee, she might not be able to accept it.

AM – she could be paid to conduct staff training

We will be flexible about dates – we’ll see when she’s available. AM will contact her

TM – We’ll see if it’d be possible for her to attend one of our meetings at 1pm on a Thursday

JW – If that doesn’t work, we can have her come by whenever she can and we will adjust

AM – we could also cover hidden disabilities (hard of hearing, mental, etc)

The disabled students are aware of the accommodations in place. This would be beneficial to librarians and those offering service.

AR – are there any courses that would benefit from attendance?

AM – deafness program, vocational rehab, etc – also someone in her office that teaches HR courses RE hidden disabilities. In house expertise!

JW – Human rights in December, Disabilities in the spring?

Group is in consensus here – focus!

TM – we could have AM’s colleague come in spring, then have a student panel in support of this (so students have a vested interest in attendance)

AM – Disability services, OID, audiology – we’ve got resources on campus, so we could set up a good panel.

AR – April for disabilities? January for the panel (weather notwithstanding)

JW - Kind of far away

TB – if we can’t get Beverly for December, we can do disabilities since we’ve an idea formed…

Culture Corner?

TM – This should reflect some of our programming

We should go by some of the ideas we’ve formed

Culture corners can last multiple months or even a semester

TB – rather than letting the current one stay up for a couple more months, we can change it for human rights and leave it up for a bit – LGBT can fit into this

Next culture corner planning in November, done in December

Other Topics

Jeff French will provide his truck and help with the Trunk or Treat and Angel Tree

Truck or Treat – for people with disabilities. Last year, fraternities handled this and we weren’t in the loop for it.

AM – giving kids with disabilities candy may not be a good idea. Maybe toys, but we need to make sure that these won’t break

AM – Jim Harris is over Greek system and could clue us in. JW will contact him.

We wouldn’t be in charge of this, just sponsoring treats/truck for the program.

AM – Circle park (where this is held) may not be a very accessible point for impaired children

Difficult to drop people off (curb cut is steep)

9/25/08 – next meeting is in 150

 

August 28, 2008

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8-28-08 Diversity Committee

Inviting outsiders is an opportunity to look at how and why we do what we do

Censoring minutes? No – the released transcript of the meetings are more of a highlight than censorship. We will continue to release our notes as we have done.

Getting to know you exercises!

Just for fun, think about diversity among members

Common ground

Uncommon ground

Campus Diversity Calendar

We tried to contact Eric Bledsoe the day of our last meeting, to no avail

Trying to get our events out there to the campus at large

Possibly piggyback onto existing events

possibly get onto the International House calendar

Committee technology features

Email

Can be set up to share the calendar with all members

so we can share available meeting dates

libdiv emails can go here rather than thru Thura

Back up info source

calendar and mail folders can be shared among members, as per Roger Weaver

Shared calendar is AR’s main concern

Listserv

Workable idea, Allison can create this – will email the credentials to the group

JR and JW agree

One place for information, plus it has an archive

As per AR, listserv would be a good place for our conversation

Will we need both?

Yes – both have specific features that can help us, says AR

New meeting dates proposed

We’ll only have these meetings if we’re working on a project

Meetings will be cancelled if we’re not

CMN committee

1pm 10/16/08 Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn authors of “Courting Equaility” at the UC

Documenting GLBT Boston

Commission for LGBT people will need no funding, but promo and breakfast for authors events need planning

Possibly have a forum for people to speak or a breakfast

We might be able to work on other projects with them as well

TM suggests turning this into a campus wide Let’s Talk About It” during one of our regular meeting times rather than a breakfast

Committee is game for a campus-wide program.

Mary Greer room or Auditorium

JR – auditorium would be stark without a large crowd. Greer room can be adjusted depending on crowd size

Group is for Greer room

We could provide snacks

Cookies!!!

This will involve some promo work as well

The commission is trying to fill the day, as the main program is at night.

JR: does the commission have a PR dept for this, or will the onus be on us?

TB – we’ll need to do poster work for the film series anyway – may as well include info for this program on those posters as well

Donna Braquet is on the GLBT advisory commission – she might have ideas RE promo, numbers, venues, etc.

Films?

September – patriots day, deaf awareness month

October – GLBT –

Brokeback Mountain,

If These Walls Could Talk

Priscilla of the Desert,

3 films will suffice

We can show a film a week, Oct 7th ,14th, 21st

Unfortunately, time is constrained, as movies cannot be piped thru the building anymore due to the media center

Trisha will look into room availability

At or around 1pm

Thura will talk to Roger about the GLBT program to get a clearer sense of what needs to be done

Publicity can be held til we’ve a better idea of what’s going on – 9/11/08, we will discuss publicity

AR – partner with faculty, as there are classes around GLBT filmmaking – this could be extra credit?

Christine Holmund – Trisha knows her/will contact

AR can contact some faculty as well Rosa Thomas – who is doing a human sexuality course

Mid September promotion, so people can plan in advance.

Once this is done, we can begin planning November

Diversity Definition

include Gender identity in our diversity definition?

Unanimously approved.

AR will change this on the web page

JW – next steps

decide what other projects we want to do this semester aside from Oct LGBT

All of us need to bring ideas for projects to the next meeting

TM – we’ve got the culture corner running, but we need to think about the next incarnation

TM – Native American month = November. We should start planning for this soon

JR – we’ve always looked at obvious diversity issues (ethnicity is big)

Mary Papke talked about us all being part of a culture

We should look for less obvious fare

Geographic regions and original settlers?

International awareness

AR – there might be an Irish Heritage month. We’ve done Appalachian culture…it was 2 – 3 years ago past.

TB – we could do that again

Irish Heritage month is in March…programming for this?

Sometimes people appreciate having their cultures talked about

LEA will be doing student association – we won’t need to do the bulk of it as a committee. We will have time in March to do Irish Heritage

December? – last year, we did disabilities

It’s near a major Christian holiday – should we look at other cultures during that time that people might miss?

December is Universal Human Rights Month

http://www.va.gov/dmeeo/calendar/december.htm

December planning will be on our next agenda

A culture corner could continue to speak to the issue even after the programming has ended.

TM – the more global our project are, the more people we can attract

JR – is there any way to identify how many African students are here?

Connect with International House

Bill Dewey is a professor of African art – we can get him to do a presentation

TM – we need a 9/11 meeting to discuss projects

TM — If we can line up projects til December, we’ll be in good shape

Trunk and Treat? Mainly done by sororities and fraternities

August 14, 2008

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Diversity Committee meeting – August 14, 2008

 

Introductions/Committee Roster

 

Members Present:

Thura Mack – Diversity Co-chair and Training Coordinator for UT Libraries

Jeanine Williamson – Diversity Co-chair and Engineering and Art & Architecture Librarian in Research Services & Collections, UT Hodges Library

Trisha Brady – Supervisor for Media Center/Studio, at Hodges

Shantrie Collins – Diversity Resident, UT Libraries

Damon Campbell – Diversity Resident, UT Libraries

Laurie Roberson – Director of Student Services in the school of architecture and design.

Jerry Roberson – Professor at the Veterinary school and adviser to the Native American Student Organization.

George Hoemann – Chair of LGBT, Assistant Dean of Distance Education

Sandy Allen – Technical Services & Digital Access, at Hodges

Allison Roberts – Supervisor at Ag/Vet library, Diversity Committee web mistress

 

Members Absent:

Marielle Veve – Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, UT Libraries

Jane Row – Head, Research Services at UT Libraries and Ready for the World library point person

Jill Keally – Diversity ex-officio and Executive Associate Dean of UT Libraries

Donna Braquet – Diversity ex-officio and Librarian in Research Services & Collections

Annazette McCane – Director, UT Disability Services

 

Overview of the committee

Diversity definition and mission statement were included to provide in-depth background for new members (if you were not at the meeting, please attached Agenda document with these descriptions). We’ve been criticized about past programs’ validity. We are striving to be more accountable to the diversity definition. However, we do leave ourselves room to take risks.

 

Annual Report

Report was in draft form and shared to get feedback from members, and review types of programming that this committee is committed to.

Suggestion to add titles of the films and some specific hot topics that we feature for display. It was agreed that these changes will be incorporated.

Committee agreed to get card for Sarah Green, former co-chair of the Diversity Committee, for a job well done.

 

Calendars for best meeting dates

Members agreed that Thursdays at 1 p.m. is the best time for the committee to meet.

In the beginning of the Fall semester, we will meet twice a month. Once our projects are underway, we will meet once a month. Meetings are scheduled for an hour and a half.

The next meeting date is August 28 at 1 p.m. in Room 605.

Allison Roberts will get the committee an outlook account and set us up for shared calendars.

 

Announcements

There was an invitation from Roger Weaver to host LGBT program on October 16.

Evening presentation is about the book Courting Equality: Gay & Lesbian Marriage by Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn.

The committee’s role would be to create a day-time program about the digital history project these authors have launched and to help with advertising of the overall program.

 

Agenda Items for Next Meeting

Discuss significant diversity dates and create Diversity Committee calendar. Collaborate with Erik Bledsoe to submit calendar to UT’s Diversity and Intercultural page.

We will do one or two getting-to-know-you exercises.