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Diversity Programs and Services at Brown:Diversity programs and services at Brown are designed to accomplish three major goals: (1) to build diverse student, faculty and staff populations through aggressive and strategic recruitment efforts; (2) to create significant opportunities to engage diverse ideas inside and outside the classroom through curricular innovations; and (3) to provide sufficient structures for managing a diverse environment. Below are descriptions of and links to many of the diversity programs and services at Brown. Curricular InnovationsDiversity Perspectives Courses designated DP, for Diversity Perspectives, represent the dedication of the Brown Faculty to examine knowledge from the perspectives of groups whose individual/collective voices were frequently absent in the development of traditional academic disciplines. Two kinds of courses have the DP designation: courses that treat, primarily or at least substantially, the knowledge and experience of previously underrepresented groups; or courses that examine the ways in which disciplines, histories, and paradigms of knowledge are reconfigured by the study of diversity-related intellectual questions. Curriculum Transformation Workshops The Dean of the College sponsors workshops for faculty in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences to explore ways of integrating diversity materials and perspectives into their curricula. Exchange with Tougaloo College The College has sponsored Student and faculty exchanges with Tougaloo College, a historically Black college in Mississippi since the 1960’s. An early identification program provides Tougaloo students with admission to Brown Medical School. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America The Center for the Study of Race Ethnicity at Brown is an interdisciplinary program that develops and promotes research and programs on Race and Ethnicity. The Center also supports the Ethnic Studies concentration and curriculum. Rites and Reason (Theatre program) The mission of Rites and Reason is to develop new works for the American Stage, which analyze and articulate the phenomenal and universal odyssey of the African Diaspora. Over the years, the mission has grown to embrace the expression of other cultural experiences. Pembroke Center The Pembroke Center was established in 1981 as a research center on gender. Funded in its early years by the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Center now supports its programs largely through its endowment, made possible by generous alumnae and other donors. |