The Office of Residence Life and the Office of Multicultural Affairs are offering eleven dialogue circles on race and ethnicity during October and November 2005. This is a collaborative initiative by the Division of Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and the Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism (CWD). The circles will run once a week for six weeks commencing the week of October 10 and ending the week of November 14. Sessions will be scheduled from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. and will take place Monday - Thursday evenings in our residence halls.

Conversations About Race and Ethnicity (CARE) is a six-week intergroup dialogue program that brings together small groups of interested students to exchange views that result in greater awareness about issues and experiences across diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. Participants meet once a week (two hours) with two CWD certified facilitators to share personal storied focusing on race and ethnicity. Selected readings and activities serve to enhance students understanding of these issues in broader society.

To learn more about the CARE dialogue initiative, visit our website at http://intergroupdialogue.syr.edu/ .

Syracuse University has made a commitment to create a campus community that is free from discrimination and celebrates the diversity of its various community members.

The ability to genuinely appreciate others for their differences and similarities in such areas as gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, and age, just to name a few, allows us to see individuals with unique gifts and flaws, and to realize more often than not, that they have remarkably similar values and aspirations to our own. By building a community that values diversity, students are enriched because they value--and continuously learn--from the contributions made by the entire campus community.

POLICIES

• Disability Policy
• Equal Opportunity Policy
• Non-Discrimination Policy

PROGRAMS

• Conversations About Race and Ethnicity (CARE) intergroup dialogue program
• Diversity in the Curriculum Sampler
• Supporting Diversity Curriculum and Pedagogy (.pdf)
• Coming Back Together
• Institutional Diversity, Human Resources
• Hillel at Syracuse University or Jews on the Hill

OFFICES & DEPARTMENTS

• Program Development
• Hendricks Chapel
• Office of Multicultural Affairs
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center
• Office of Disability Services
• Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services

RELATED LINKS

• SU's Amicus curiae brief in support of Affirmative Action in admissions
• Protocol for Responding to Bias-Related Incidents
• All of Us Are Related, Each of Us is Unique (online exhibit)

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