Diversity and inclusion

Making LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered) Students Feel Welcome Making LGBT Students Feel Welcome by: M. M. Malamud While serving on the…

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I went to the website http://www.tolerance.org and got an idea to do Bulletin Board '101 Tools for Tolerance.' I then decided to have a program to…

For our bulletin board of the month for March 2007, we came up with It's not all black and white, and it was supposed to talk about diversity. You…

I put pictures of women who had struggled with a body image problem. The women posed naked, but I covered the middles with facts about eating…

I posted information on Breast Cancer Awareness. I used facts, myths, and other interesting statistics. I found all of my information on…

I did a Bulletin Board do raise diversity on my floor. My floor had an awesome time participating. I took everyone's picture and then next to their…

Description : This board basically has all the information about diversity and what people need to do in order to be able to easily accept people…

Using poster paper, the same size as a bulletin board on your floor, I painted the word DIVERSITY vertically down the middle of the paper, I added…

About a year ago, I lost a good friend in a drunk driving accident. She had worked with me on state-wode programs to preven our peers from driving…

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Resident Assistant.com Religious Jokes The preacher and the ghost The Number of the Beast - and then some The man caught in the flood A commercial…

I am an RA in an all girls dorm. To get a discussion going about first impressions and how they're not always right, I took polaroid pictures of the…

Students fill out six cards which cover the following areas. A person from your childhood with whom you shared secrets. The names of your best…

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Description : The goal of Archie Bunker's Neighborhood is to create a community. Participants are assigned an I.D. tag with one of the following…

"Are You a Creature Unlike Any Other?" I invited the girls to come to the lobby through vague advertising. I used the least amount of information…

As cultural awareness has recently been stressed here at Southeastern Louisiana University, I figured that we might as well as explore the spiritual…

This is really an "add water and stir" program. Each week, during the month of February, which is Black Awareness month all over the country, show…

I constructed a bulletin board with several trivia questions about Black History. I made it a contest so that people could come up to the bulletin…

(Taken from the ResidentAssistant.com RA Discussion Listserv) What we have done in the past is have a black inventors scavenger hunt where residents…

Almost 20 years ago, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She…

The purpose of the program is to show how sexual activity can spread diseases and viruses. It's a visual representation of how you don't really know…

A candle light service to remember the lives lost in Kosovo. we had guest speakers from the history and political science department come and talk…

In celebration of Cesar Chavez, have a fiesta with food, music, and instruments galore!! We had a local mexican restaraunt cater our food, lots of…

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The 10 RA's at our Residence Hall got together and decided to celebrate the Chinese New Year as a nice Co-op to kick off the Spring semester. At each…

The Lost Seinfeld Description : I showed the episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Puerto Rican Day." This episode has been banned from syndication by…

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Condom Creativity Description : In order to get the word out that the Residence Life Staff had condoms for students that wanted them we had a floor…

I sent letters to all of my residents' parents explaining that I wanted to do a cultural program on my floor. The letter asked each of the parents to…

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There was a special episode of Dawson's creek in which a character comes out in an English class. The episode deals with how he and his friends dealt…

Advertise and get residents to sign up to participate. Pick a date and call it the day of silence. The residents who participate cannot speak from…

Legal Information Related To Movie Programs Editor's note: Following are two submissions to the site. One discusses the ramifications of using a…

I created a scavenger hunt. The list was made of questions concerning diversity on our campus and in our city, as well as a list of items that…

Do it in the Sand was a program used to promote recycling while having lots of fun. Students put colored sand into glass or plastic bottles to form…

I'm an RA in a four floor building, so I figured I'd make use of our elevator.What I plan on doing is an educational night on Asian cultures. I'd buy…

Split everybody up into groups of two (if possible) or three, and make sure that everybody is with a person of different ethnicity (i.e. white with…

Description : All the residents on the floor, chooses one song that describes their personality or beliefs. Then we compile all the songs and burn…

In order to get residents to start having those conversations about diversity and background once again, I decided to post some seemingly bold…

Use "The Game of Life" as a model. Make different routes that match up with different ethnic or sexual-oriented groups, each with their own unique…

watched a video tape I recorded on discovery channel about the murder in Waco texas and conducted a educational program with discussion afterwards.…

April has Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to honor this, two things can be done. This year, we all gathered and watched Schindler's List. This is a…

- HUMAN AWARENESS PROGRAMMING - 101 Tools for Tolerance (Bulletin board and active program) A Different Life: Growing up Gay Archie Bunker's…

We had a party and invited many people for ice cream and a movie. Then the people who came were treated according to their race. Black females were…

This was a program where you cook or buy all different kinds of foods from all different cultures and backgrounds. Then you invite students in the…

Description : A small discussion with students and faculty members about interracial dating, especially on college campuses. Instructions/Things…

This program utilizes the popular show "Jerry Springer." The staff divided up to "perform" 3 different scenarios that related to issues first-year…

Ladies Night is self explanatory. This program was a night where all of the ladies of Temple Ambler's East Hall to come out and enjoy food and…

Program: Lunchtime with the Advocacy Offices Human Awareness, Social Description : Every Tuesday of the semester a different faculty memeber from the…

Each RA's room will become a different cultural entity. For instance The 3rd floor Ra's may become rooms of European Nations. Each RA's room will…

Philip Reid: Slave Caster of Freedom Philip Reid: Slave Caster of Freedom by Dr. Eugene Walton When Freedom, the statue perched atop the dome of the…

This is a really cool program that lets residents interact while at the same time dealing with physical disabilities. Great Awareness program!…

this program would help promote websites that students could use to reference both personal and scholastic interests. based on the common majors…

***WARNING*** This is a VERY high risk program for many people. Make sure the facilitator is willing and able to handle mixed and sometimes angry…

We have residents from all over the world. We advertised a "Rice Party" and asked that all the residents bring a dish (made with rice) from their…

Safe Zone Resources & Downloads Allies & Advocates Manual from Grand Valley State University - Activities that go along with the manual: Dating Game…

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Actually, one of my residents came up with this one. Our floor had a meeting that promoted self confidence in women. This program helps females who…

Learn that through movies, music, etc. . . you can be spiritual without going to church or having to believe in any religion. The purpose is to get…

This program mainly dealt with hate crimes and the alarming statistics on the number hate crime victims over the past few year. I had a professor…

Held a little before Spring Break. We invited a well known local tattoo artist and piercer in to explain a little about what to look for when getting…

The Names Project -- AIDS Quilt Description : After volunteering at The Names Project in San Francisco for a day, I was humbled by the experience of…

Have residents write down positive and negative stereotypes about social groups(men/women/races/sororities/fraternities/gay and lesbians/feminists)…

Disability Awareness - Hearing and Visual Description : Give out earplugs to everyone, and explain how to put them in. Load up everyone in the…

Racism, Sexism, & Homophobia as Explored by Dave Chappelle Racism, Sexism, & Homophobia as Explored by Dave Chappelle (Word ) Description : Students…