{"id":1498,"date":"2018-06-01T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:33:39","slug":"pvm-hosts-successful-iverson-bell-midwest-regional-diversity-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/pvm-hosts-successful-iverson-bell-midwest-regional-diversity-summit.php","title":{"rendered":"PVM Hosts Successful Iverson Bell Midwest Regional Diversity Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Glenn

Glenn E. Singleton gives the keynote address in the Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom at the start of the Iverson Bell Midwest Regional Diversity Summit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nearly 120 faculty, staff, and students from eleven universities across the country attended the Iverson Bell Midwest Regional Diversity Summit held at Purdue University May 18 \u2013 20.\u00a0 The biennial event is a collaboration among the colleges and schools of veterinary medicine at Purdue, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University, and the University of Wisconsin, with additional sponsorship by Zoetis.<\/p>\n

The summit kicked off at lunch Friday, May 18, with a keynote address by Glenn E. Singleton, founder of the Pacific Education Group, which seeks to achieve racial equity in education.\u00a0 The author of Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools (2006), a protocol for sustained, deep dialog, Singleton has devoted more than 30 years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same.<\/p>\n

\"Iverson

Iverson Bell Midwest Regional Diversity Summit participants listen to facilitators Anna Yeakley, program director for the Intergroup Relations Program at UCLA, and Kathleen Wong(Lau), San Jose State\u2019s chief diversity officer, during the start of afternoon workshops on Friday, May 18.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kathy Wong (Lau), chief diversity officer at San Jose State University, and Anna Yeakley, Intergroup Relations Program director at UCLA served as facilitators for the summit, which included workshops focused on the theme of \u201cCourageous ConversationsTM<\/sup>\u201d.\u00a0 Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty members also assisted as facilitators for different tracks.\u00a0 Summit participants were able to choose between the topics of \u201cDiversity Curriculum Infusion \u2013 in the Classroom,\u201d facilitated by Dr. Henry Green; \u201cStudent Affairs for a Multicultural Environment \u2013 Institutional Framework,\u201d facilitated by Dr. Susan Mendrysa; and \u201cPutting Inclusion into the Institutional Culture,\u201d facilitated by Drs. Kathy Salisbury and Sandy San Miguel.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.

\u201cPutting Inclusion into the Institutional Culture\u201d is the title of a track facilitated by Drs. Kathleen Salisbury and Sandy San Miguel during the Iverson Bell Midwest Regional Diversity Summit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Additional sessions included Intergroup Dialogue Skills and a panel discussion featuring students, staff, and faculty.\u00a0 Throughout the event, participants took time to develop role play scenarios to demonstrate how to have both planned and spontaneous, courageous conversations in the context of the curriculum, student affairs, and institutional culture.\u00a0 The summit concluded with group presentations and role play in Lynn 1136.<\/p>\n

Besides the attendees from Purdue and the collaborating veterinary schools and colleges, participants also came from Oklahoma State University, the University of Georgia, Tuskegee University, the University of California \u2013 Davis, the University of Florida and the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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