2008 Teaching Diversity and Building a Diversity Minor Professional Development Workshop
You are invited to attend the Teaching Diversity and Building a Diversity Minor Professional Development Workshop on Sunday, August 10, from 8 a.m. to 12 at the Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim. This session will help participants learn to teach gender and diversity courses at undergraduate, MBA/MA/MS, and doctoral levels or improve their current courses. Specific sessions on each educational level will be offered, along with sessions on teaching diversity in ethics, human resources, and organizational behavior courses; facilitation skills, class conflict, and the instructor as medium; using experiential exercises; building support for and creating a business diversity minor; and teaching diversity in the Asia Pacific Rim context.
The demand for gender and diversity courses has increased along with the increasing workforce diversity and the increased awareness that diversity management affects organizational performance. Teaching such a course or incorporating it into other course content is challenging, because few faculty have taken such courses themselves, the range of potential goals is large, the number of potential topics is large, and there is no standard model of what a course should incorporate or how it should be taught. This PDW will give experienced teachers an opportunity to share their expertise with others and may also increase the number of courses or the inclusion of such content in other courses by increasing participants' skills and confidence about their ability to teach the material. Participants include:
Organizer: Myrtle P. Bell, U of Texas, Arlington
Presenters: Judith A. Clair, Boston College
Mary L. Connerley, Virginia Tech
Bernardo M. Ferdman, Alliant International U.
Linda M. Hite, Indiana U. Purdue U. Fort Wayne
James E. King, U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Deborah R. Litvin, Merrimack College
Kimberly S. McDonald, Indiana U. Purdue U. Fort Wayne
Isabel Metz, U of Melbourne
Belle Rose Ragins, U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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