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The Diversity Week On-Line Teaching Manual is a user-friendly Web-based resource for URI instructors, student teachers, and professors to access for information about, and examples of, the incorporation of Diversity Week into course curricula. This Manual helps to maximize the potential on campus for creating greater awareness and interest in issues of diversity. Recognizing the complexity of diversity education, the Diversity Week Committee culled expertise in teaching and multiculturalism from all across campus (URI Instructional Development Program, The Multicultural Center, The School of Education, The College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries, and the Offices of Academic and Student Affairs), and recruited members for the Teaching Manual Subcommittee that began working together on the Manual in the Spring 2004.  

The Teaching Manual is designed to:

¡¤         Encourage faculty to ensure that their course content and activities address concerns and contributions of diverse groups - individuals of different races, ethnicities, national origins, nationalities, religions, gender identities, ages, sexual orientations, socio-economic classes, and disabilities as well as differing politics, ideologies, social values, and intellectual orientations.

¡¤         Inform faculty members about diversity and multiculturalism,

¡¤         Assist them in implementing inclusive strategies across the curriculum,

¡¤         Suggest ways that faculty members may include Diversity Week as part of their course curricula.

The Manual contains definitions of related terms and vocabulary, Web links to other resources and additional information on diversity and multiculturalism, information about the URI General Education skill area, ¡°Examining Human Differences,¡± instruction for addressing difficult moments in class, and for creating a productive and comfortable classroom climate.  Examples of assignments that URI faculty members have created and used to incorporate Diversity Week into their courses are available on the Web site. 

The Manual will be maintained and updated regularly by the Teaching Manual Subcommittee.  Anyone who has assignments to post to the Manual, or questions about it, please contact Judy A. Van Wyk, Sociology & Anthropology, and Chair of the Diversity Week Committee, (401) 874-4146, vanwyk@uri.edu, or contact the Multicultural Center at (401) 874-2851, mcc1@etal.uri.edu.