Irvine Diversity Grant

Irvine Diversity Grant | Diversity Seminars | 2003-2004 Participant Reflections
Junior Scholar Program | Summer Diversity Program

Diversity Seminars

A generous grant from the James Irvine Foundation has allowed Pitzer College to offer faculty/staff seminars. Each of the seminars has about seven participants, and at least eight 100-minute sessions during the course of the year. Each seminar also invites a prominent academician or community leader to campus to stimulate the seminar discussion and make a public presentation. Flexibility in seminar design encourages participation and innovation. It also accommodates the schedules of the guest speakers.

Each seminar participant writes a short reflection paper about personal perspectives on the topic and reaction to the process. These papers are collected and posted on the Pitzer College website. The papers not only give participants the opportunity to collect their own thoughts and feelings about the issues raised in the seminar, but also allow the community in general to vicariously engage in and learn from this process of self-reflection.

The following diversity seminars listed below have been offered and have reflections written by the participants.

2003-2004

1. Ethnic Los Angeles: After Midnight We Gonna’ Let It All Hang Out…
2. Impacts of Diversity on Whiteness, Masculinity, Straightness, and Socio-Economic Privelege
3. Gender, Race and Class: Women’s Ways of Knowing

2002-2003

1. Global Feminisms - Participant Reflections
2. Ethnic Los Angeles
3. Intercultural Meets Multicultural: Pedagogical Border Crossings