HHS Council for Diversity
2012-13
Council Members
Dept./ School
Staff
Faculty
Student
CSR
Jane Anderson
Thelma Snuggs
Sarah Korni
HDFS
Karen Hickman
Aryn Dotterer
TreShawn Anderson
HK
Nancy Kester
Meghan McDonough
Shauna Stapleton
HSCI
Dr. Lan Hong
Frank Rosenthal
Daniel Cheng
HTM
Maria Campos
Li Miao
August Washington
NURS
Sonia Pierce
Chyi-kong Chang
Amber Harris
NUTR
Dinah Dalder
Nana Gletsu-Miller
Emily Hohman
PSY
Nancy O’Brien
David Rollock
Vacant
SLHS
Jane Fenters
Dawn Wetzel
Evan Mattice
Council Members
Student Services
Teresa Eloff
Joseph Ballard
Shane Hawkins-Wilding
Administrative Offices
Wanda Stevens (Business Office)
Michele Baker (Extension)
Alan Mehringer (IT)
Liping Cai (Council Chair)
Kendra Julian (Council Secretary)
Diversity Highlights
• Collectively advised the Dean on the diversity
components of HHS Strategic Plan
• Promoted university/community events/info.
to the members’ representative groups
• Co-organized/co-sponsored diversity/
multicultural events:
– Hanna Center Ebony & Ivory Ball
– Black Graduate Student Association award dinner
– Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Awareness Week
Diversity Highlights
• HHS Supplement for Faculty Hire Procedure
• New faculty hires made possible by the
University’s Strategic Hiring Funds for diversity
• New staff hires in student services areas
– Director for Student Success
– Student Program Specialist
– Student Success Mentors Program
Implementing HHS Strategic Plan
- Council’s Wish List (a sample)
• Establish a plan and publicize the process for recruiting…and a plan for
retaining diverse groups of students.
• Maintaining a tracking system for students… for faculty and staff…
• Develop competencies in diversity, global and multicultural skills through
curricula for students and development opportunities for faculty and
staff…
• Focus on the quality of interactive experiences between and among
students from different countries and cultures.
• Maximize university resources and programs.
• Better understand current issues and policies and implications for our
responsible areas.
• Determine what we try to achieve and how we measure our diversity
efforts.
• Matching activities with resources.
HHS Committee for International Programs
2012-13
Committee Members
CSR
HDFS
HK
HSCI
HTM
NUR
NUTR
PSY
SLHS
Admin
Thelma Snuggs
Jim Elicker
Darlene Sedlock
Jim McGlothlin
Howard Adler
Jan Davis
Megan McCrory
Kip Williams
Ravi Krishnan
Liping Cai (Chair), Kendra Julian (Secretary)
9
IP Highlights
• Collectively advised the Dean on the global
components of HHS Strategic Plan
• Total of 60+ of John & Emma Global Scholars
• Increase of study abroad funding/grants
• Increase of study abroad participants
• Increase of study abroad participants in
faculty-led programs
• Support for new faculty study abroad leaders
HHS 2012-2013
Total students abroad
HHS dept./sch. faculty-led
Semester exchange
Other col./organizers
259
124
24
111
HHS Faculty-Led
43%
48%
Semester Exchange
9%
Other
Colleges/Organizers
11
HHS Faculty-led Programs
2012 Summer, 2013 Spring
CSR
Sally Harmon
Susan Owens
International Influences on Retail &
Fashion
CSR
David Evans
Multifaceted Dimensions of International
Not-for-Profit Organizations
FN
HDFS
Elsa Janle
Germán Posada
French Culture, Food and Health
Latin-American Children & Families: A
Costa Rican Experience
HDFS/NURS
Judith Myers-Walls
Children and Families in India: Human
Service & Nursing Perspectives
HK
Darlene Sedlock
Tara Hodge
Global Experiences in Sports Medicine China
HHS Faculty-led Programs
2012 Summer, 2013 Spring
HSCI/NURS Jim McGlothlin
Contemporary Issues in Internaitonal
Public Health-China
HTM
Bill Jaffe
Culture and Tourism in France
HTM
Howard Adler
Culture and Tourism in Peru &
Ecuador
HTM
Carl Behnke/Ambarish Cuisine and Culture of Southern
Lulay
Europe
NURS
Jan Davis/Trina Wright Comparative Healthcare in Ireland
IP Highlights
• Development opportunities for academic
advisors (CSR, HDFS, HTM, HSCI, PSY)
• Global Strategic Partners in Dublin
– 2013 class in University College Dublin (CSR, HDFS,
PSY, NURS)
– Dublin Institute of Technology (HSCI, NUTR)
• Global Strategic Partners in Guangzhou (HTM)
• Study Abroad photo contest
2013 Summer, Fall
HTM
Howard Adler
Culture & Tourism in Italy
CSR
Thelma Snuggs
Internaitonal Cross-Cultural Behavior in
Internaitoanl Business & Not-for-Profit Org.
CSR,
HDFS,
PSY
Bobbe Molter
Karen Hickman
Janet Proctor
HK
Darlene Sedlock
Tarra Hodge
Global Perspectives of Health and Wellness
NUR
Elizabeth O'Neil
Healthcare and Nutrition in Costa Rica
NURS
Jan Davis
Trina Wright
Comparative Healthcare in Ireland
SLHS
Lata Krishnan
Jennifer Simpson
SLHS in Zambia
University College Dublin, Semester Exchange
Implementing HHS Strategic Plan
- Committee Wish List ( a sample)
• One or more study abroad courses are developed as HHS-branded
signatures/that appeal to students from multiple
departments/schools.
• A global learning fair/forum is held monthly as a continuous venue
to educate HHS students and promote featured study abroad.
• Parents are engaged to learn about opportunities of study abroad
and global learning for their children.
• A study abroad course is required for all HHS students to satisfy the
requirement of the University Core Curriculum for the foundational
outcome of Human Cultures, as well as for the embedded
outcomes of Intercultural Knowledge and Effectiveness and Global
Citizenship and Social Responsibility.
• Each department identifies one or more required courses that are
appropriate or can be fitted for study abroad.