Temple Leadership Ensures Diversity Remains Topic of Conversation - Higher Education: The attendees are as diverse as the topic. There’s the associate professor of French, whose journey from a village in Trinidad shocks even his students. There’s the theater professor whose college experience was a lesson in segregation. And then there’s the sociology/psychology adjunct who looks back at her childhood as “stifling homogeneous.”
“Can we talk? Teaching About Race and Diversity,” is a monthly meeting of Temple University faculty and administrators hosted by the the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership (IDEAL) and the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC).
The meeting is the brainchild of Tchet Dorman, director of IDEAL. Pamela Barnett, director of TLC, had just completed the Diversity Certificate program when Dorman presented the idea of a series. The idea was a natural fit for Barnett, who had taught English and African-American studies at the University of South Carolina and worked in diversity education at Princeton University. Barnett teamed with Donna Marie Peters, assistant professor of sociology, to form the workshops. Three years later, a group is still going strong.
