Center for Global, Race, and Diversity Studies
Annual Report Highlights (AY 2014-2015)
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Student Engagement
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Contact with 1,200 students in person, 20+ student groups, and an additional 3,000
UNH undergraduates online via email and social networks.
Developed effective and highly visible marketing materials for the minors (including
posters, postcards, and handouts).
Recruited student ambassadors from the minors to make frequent visits to classes to
speak directly about the minors.
Conducted focus groups and surveys to understand how underrepresented students
perceive study abroad and what they see as major impediments to study abroad:
 Major findings included financial concerns, lack of academic support, and the
emotional/intellectual fatigue of already being underrepresented on the UNH
campus.
Partnered with DSC student organizations, OMSA, CONNECT, NSBE, MOS:DEF,
and NALA, to encourage students to consider study abroad options and the IA dual major
and minor.
o Attended multiple meetings and spoke to several hundred student members of
these groups about the minors, study abroad, and IA.
Incorporated information about IA and study abroad into all class visits and digital
outreach, reaching over 4,000 students.
29 students affiliated with the COLA Minors won college and university awards.
Commitment to the 2020 Strategic Plan: making UNH a more inclusive environment
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Coordinated or co-sponsored over 40 high-impact campus-wide events. These included:
 Full-house screenings and discussions of In Our Son’s Name (Middle Eastern
Studies + American Studies), Out Here (Queer Studies) and Selma (Race and
Ethnic Studies + Middle Eastern Studies + American Studies).
 UNH Talks Ferguson, Charleston Shooting Vigil, #BlackLivesMatter in our
Classrooms (UNH’s only campus-wide responses to these national events). Each
event was attend by over 200+ people in MUB II and encouraged the audience to
critically examine issues of race, privilege and systemic violence. They were well
attended by students, faculty, and community members –including local police.
 Campus-wide cultural and diversity events such as the Latin Heritage Dinner,
Diwali, Black Family Weekend and East Meets West.
Played a vocal role this year at the NH Listens Community Policing Dialogues and has
continued conversations with Durham and UNH police with the hopes to partner on racial
bias trainings.
Strengthening the Interdisciplinary COLA Minors and the Center
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Developed and implemented a recruitment plan for each minor in partnership with
Minor Faculty.
Worked with each Faculty Coordinator to encourage faculty in their departments and
programs to highlight the minors in their syllabi, discuss the programs in class, and
discuss the minors in meetings with their advisees.
Attended discussions and meetings on curriculum and program development for the
Carsey School for Public Policy and the newly created Sustainability Dual Major, to see
how these could include the COLA minors and offerings.
Created and managed Center website and social media presence. As a result, all minor
websites are updated and housed in one place.
Created system to track students engaged in the minors, and contact students enrolled
in minor classes for recruitment purposes.
The result of these outreach initiatives has been a significant increase in student
awareness of, and interest in, the minors. The minors are resonating with students as a
way to demonstrate to employers and graduate programs that they have a niche academic
interest and multicultural competency.
MINOR
Africana and AfricanAmerican Studies
American Studies
2010
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2011
4
2012
3
2013
4
2014
2015
PIPELINE*
9
4
3
1
1
3
5
33
Asian Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Latin American Studies
8
6
5
9
3
9
9
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10
7
3
9
5
3
8
9
3
19
37
16
Queer Studies
2
7
3
8
7
5
13
Race and Ethnic Studies
6
12
4
9
11
18
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Strengthening Campus Diversity, Globalization, and Equity Initiatives
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Sidore Lecture Series: #Change: Inside Global Activism
Managing Director Jessica Fish served as the Co-Chair to the President’s Commission
on the Status of People of Color, and on The University Council for Inclusive
Excellence, the International Educator Editorial Board, and the MLK Planning
Committee.
Partnered with the President’s Commissions, the Discovery Program and the faculty
senate to pass the Social Identity Attribute.
The Center continued its support of women of color on the UNH campus by providing
mentorship to NALA, a new group aimed to empower and support women of color at
UNH.
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