[Counselor_Educ] Fwd: Building Community Through Diversity Initiatives Conference

[robinsoh at ohio.edu]

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From: Kim Hayden <hayden at ohio.edu>
To: hayden at ohio.edu
Subject: Building Community Through Diversity Initiatives Conference
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:38:59 -0500

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The following is sent on behalf of Susanne B. Dietzel, Chair, Women's 
Center, and blind copied to you.  Please do not reply to all. Thank you.
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Dear Members of the OU Community:

As many of you already know, the OU Office for Diversity, Access and Equity 
will host its first conference called Building Community Through Diversity 
Initiatives on May 7 and 8, 2010.  This undergraduate research conference 
is supported by an 1804 grant and will bring together a community of 
students from all Ohio University campuses to present their work on 
diversity, multiculturalism, intersectionality, and identity in a 
professional setting.  We anticipate this conference will be an annual 
event; the 2011 conference will be hosted at one of the regional campuses.

We encourage you to share the Call for Papers it with your students which 
can be found on the website, www.ohio.edu/dae/conference. The proposal 
submission deadline is January 15, 2010, but we will accept proposals as 
late as January 29.

We hope that you will encourage your students to submit their 
diversity-related work for consideration at the conference.  The conference 
will be interdisciplinary and feature all types of work including essays, 
seminar papers, honors theses, research studies, and creative work, such as 
poetry, dance, film, and performance, as well as best practices in student 
activism.  Stellar papers that are submitted to you this quarter, or from 
previous quarters, should be encouraged as potential submissions.  Student 
organizations, RAs, and other students who have actively worked on the 
issues listed above should also be encouraged to submit a proposal.

The objective of this conference is to cultivate a community of students 
who are interested in diversity and identity issues, facilitate 
cross-campus interactions and learning, and provide unique opportunities 
for undergraduate learning and research.  Most importantly, it will provide 
an opportunity for students from the regional campuses to visit the Athens 
campus and interact with like-minded peers in a welcoming, intellectual, 
and social context.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity.  We look 
forward to your response.  If you have any questions, please contact Dr. 
Susanne B. Dietzel at the Ohio University Women's Center (dietzel at ohio.edu 
or 740-593-9625), Dr. Winsome Chunnu, Assistant Director in Multicultural 
Programs (chunnu at ohio.edu, or 740-597-2111), or Keeshna Levy, Graduate 
Assistant in the Office for Diversity, Access and Equity 
(keelevy at gmail.com, or 740-593-2551).  The conference website is 
www.ohio.edu/dae/conference. Please submit all proposals to 
womenscenter at ohio.edu.

Sincerely,

Susanne B. Dietzel, Ph. D.
Director, Women's Center 
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Mona Robinson, Ph.D., PCC, CRC
Assistant Professor
Rehabilitation Counseling and Chillicothe Program Coordinator
President-Elect, NAMRC 
Ohio University
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