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Explore the Power of Diversity!


Professor, author and diversity trainer Gary R. Howard will help MCC faculty, staff and students explore diversity and inclusion within themselves, the classroom and the institution during next week’s Alice Holloway Young, Ed.D. Diversity Series.

Howard’s visit will include keynote addresses for faculty, staff and students that will focus on the “Power of Diversity – Moving from Mindfulness to Meaningful Practice.”

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Attend either Thursday, Nov. 15, on the Damon City Campus at 11:15 a.m. (Room 4151) or Friday, Nov. 16, on the Brighton Campus at Noon (Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center, Monroe A and B).

Three primary themes will weave throughout Howard’s sessions:

The individual journey toward “the will and the ability to form authentic and effective relationships across difference.”

Teaching and leadership practices that ensure “more people across more differences are more engaged, empowered and successful more of the time.”

Institutional transformations that redirect power away from social dominance and toward social justice for the purpose of “creating cultures of inclusion, equity, and excellence.”

Howard, founder and president of the REACH Center for Multicultural Education ("
https://www.reachctr.org/"), has 35 years of experience in diversity leadership and training. He earned his master’s degree from Western Washington University and bachelor’s from Yale University. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at both Western and Seattle Universities. His groundbreaking work, “We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools,” is available in both the Brighton and Damon City Campus bookstores.

WORKSHOPS: Faculty and staff are invited also to attend a Thursday professional development workshop either at 9 a.m. on the Damon City Campus (Room 4193) or 3 p.m. on the Brighton Campus (Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center, Monroe A and B). RSVP to "
mailto:sparks@monroecc.edu".

Chris Otero-Piersante
Diversity Council, Direction #1
11/07/2007