[Peace-discuss] Hate Free Campus

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Hate Will be the Exclusive Preserve of University Officials:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/on-the-narrative-of-pepper-spray-at-uc-davis-or-mike-check-for-president.html


On Nov 20, 2011, at 8:49 PM, David Green wrote:

> http://occr.ucdavis.edu/hatefree/
>
> Campus Council on Community and Diversity
> Campus Action Plan and Outline of the Hate Free Campus Initiative
>
>
> Introduction
>
>
> In response to several incidents of hate and bias that plagued  
> campuses in the UC system this past spring, the Office of the  
> President (UCOP) requested that each campus form an Advisory Council  
> on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion. The campus councils were  
> required to include representatives from the faculty, staff,  
> student, alumni and local community, and were charged with advising  
> a course of action(s) in response to incidents of hate and bias, and  
> monitoring and evaluating the campus’s effort to promote diversity  
> and build a more inclusive community.
> The UC Davis Campus Council on Community and Diversity (CCC&D) has  
> served this purpose for more than a decade. We recommended that the  
> CCC&D’s membership be reorganized this past spring (additional  
> faculty representatives with expertise in diversity issues and  
> representatives from our alumni and local community) to meet the new  
> criteria of the proposed campus advisory councils and serve as the  
> UC Davis advisory council. This recommendation was approved by the  
> Office of the President. The CCC&D is now chaired by Chancellor  
> Katehi with the Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor and the  
> Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for Campus Community Relations  
> serving as co-vice chairs. During the 2010 spring quarter, the CCC&D  
> was charged by Chancellor Katehi to develop a Campus Action Plan in  
> response to the incidents of hate and bias that had occurred on  
> campus during the quarter. The CCC&D held several emergency meetings  
> during the spring in addition to its regularly scheduled meetings to  
> develop both immediate action steps (in response to the current  
> situation) and a campus action plan to proactively address future  
> incidents.
> At the June 17, 2010 meeting, the Council completed its Campus  
> Action Plan for responding to incidents of hate and bias. The action  
> plan is both responsive to these types of incidents and proactively  
> supports educational opportunities that promote our campus  
> Principles of Community.
> As a first step in executing the action plan, the CCC&D has  
> reorganized its subcommittee structure to include two new  
> subcommittees. The “Academic Issues and Concerns” subcommittee is  
> charged with reviewing the new General Education program scheduled  
> to be implemented in 2012 and the curriculum listed as satisfying  
> the diversity requirement; collaborating with the Academic Senate/ 
> Federation Affirmative Action & Diversity Committee and making  
> recommendation for courses which would strengthen our efforts to  
> foster a better understanding of the educational value of diversity;  
> and promoting educational activities that foster a greater awareness  
> of cultural diversity and encourages opportunities for cross- 
> cultural learning experiences. The subcommittee will also review our  
> current strategies for increasing the number of underrepresented  
> minority faculty and staff, and make recommendations on how we can  
> increase the yield result of our efforts in these areas.
> The “Student Life Issues and Campus Climate” subcommittee is charged  
> with reviewing campus strategies for increasing the number of  
> underrepresented minority students, advising and collaborating with  
> student life campus units and student organizations (i.e. Cross  
> Cultural Center, Women’s Resources and Resource Center, Lesbian,  
> Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, Black Student Union,  
> Graduate Student Association, Associated Students of UC Davis,  
> School of Medicine Student orgs, etc.) in the development of  
> programs designed to foster a more inclusive campus climate, and  
> supporting the development of leadership training opportunities for  
> students and professional development training in cultural  
> competency for students and staff.
> The Campus Action Plan also calls for the creation of a “Rapid  
> Response Team” with established protocols for addressing future  
> incidents of hate and bias on the Davis and Sacramento campuses.  
> Members of the team will include representatives from Student  
> Affairs, Administrative Resources and Management, Campus Community  
> Relations, UC Davis Health System, UC Davis Police Department,  
> University Communications, Campus Counsel, Human Resources, and the  
> student community. The team will be responsible for the campus’s  
> initial response to incidents of hate and bias including the  
> preliminary assessment of whether the event is a hate crime as  
> defined by law and required to be referred directly to the police  
> department, facilitating and coordinating internal and external  
> (media) communications, security and safety issues, and building &  
> maintenance concerns. The Rapid Response Team will be co-chaired by  
> the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the Associate  
> Executive Vice Chancellor. These two administrators will also serve  
> as the UC Davis contacts for the new UCOP Hate and Bias Reporting  
> System.
> The Campus Action Plan also includes the launching of a “Hate-Free  
> Campus Initiative” that seeks to proactively engages the entire  
> campus community in educational programs, training and activities  
> designed to confront and stop acts of hate, foster a greater  
> awareness and appreciation for diversity, promote civility and  
> respect in our human interactions, and build a more inclusive campus  
> community. Below is an outline of the Hate-Free Campus Initiative.
> Formal announcement of the CCC&D Campus Action Plan including the  
> Hate-Free Campus Initiative during the Student Activities Faire on  
> October 13, 2010
> Place articles announcing the Campus Action Plan and the Hate-Free  
> Campus Initiative in the Aggie, Dateline, Davis Enterprise, and  
> other news outlets.
> Develop and distribute Hate-Free Campus Initiative flyers at the  
> Student Activities Faire.
> Collaborate with student leaders (ASUCD, Graduate & Professional  
> Student Associations, Student Assistants to the Chancellor and Cross  
> Cultural Center Campus Climate Interns, Greek Organizations) and  
> encourage their input and assistance in sponsoring programs and  
> activities for the student community in support of the Hate-Free  
> Campus Initiative.
> Meet with the leadership of faculty and staff constituent groups to  
> seek their input, support, and request that each group sponsor a  
> Hate-Free Campus activity or program for the 2010-11 academic year  
> with funding support from the Office of Campus Community Relations.
> Collaborate with the Museum of Tolerance on training/professional  
> development activities and programmatic initiatives in support of  
> the Hate-Free Campus Initiative.
> Bring the “Point of View Caf� Exhibit” to both the Davis and  
> Sacramento campuses of UC Davis (consider other exhibits that would  
> be appropriate educational tools for an academic institution.
> Collaborate with the Museum of Tolerance (staff) in the development  
> of educational workshops and training seminars for managers,  
> department chairs, staff and students.
> Co-sponsor community forums focused on topics related to the Hate- 
> Free Campus Initiative.
> Initiate “the Civility Project.”
> This yearlong project is designed to use history and the arts to  
> engage members of the university community in an examination of how  
> incivility has been and continues to be manifested on campus, and to  
> suggest alternative engagements in the future. Graduate student  
> fellows will create a web-based history of incivility on campus and  
> an original documentary theatre performance based on recent  
> enactments of hate and incivility on the UC Davis campus. In a  
> related project, funded by the Peter J. Shields Library, the Office  
> of Campus Community Relations, and the Department of History, a  
> graduate student fellow will conduct archival research on relevant  
> Shields Library’s Special Collections holdings, in order to help  
> develop research models and pedagogical materials that facilitate  
> critical and meaningful scholarship when the object) of study are  
> controversial materials that require sensitivity in their  
> presentation.
> Continue the Hate-Free Campus Distinguished Speakers Series.
> Following up on the successful campus visits and lectures by  
> National Endowment for the Humanities Chairmen, Jim Leach and author/ 
> activist, Tim Wise (spring 2010), we plan to have a noted speaker  
> for this series in the fall, winter and spring quarters of the  
> 2010-11 academic year.
> The Moises Kaufman Residency Program (October 2010).
> Moises Kaufman will spend two days on campus presenting a lecture,  
> conducting a master class and visiting classrooms. Moises is the son  
> of a Holocaust survivor and “grew up in overwhelmingly Catholic and  
> adamantly heterosexual Caracas, Venezuela, as a yeshiva-trained  
> Orthodox Jew with sidelocks, hiding from his own people because he  
> was gay.” Both through his personal experience, and through his work  
> researching and creating the play The Laramie Project, based on the  
> murder of an openly gay student in Laramie, Wyoming, Kaufman is  
> positioned to help the campus address our recent incidents of hate  
> and bias, and to provide a keen sense of both the personal and the  
> global impact they have.
> Annual Principles of Community Celebration Week (March 2011).
> The annual POC Week Celebration will offer a number of Hate-Free  
> Campus programs and activities for faculty, staff, students and  
> members of the general community.
> All faculty and staff will be encouraged to complete the new POC  
> Online Training Course during the 2010-11 academic year.
> Student Affairs units will review the POC course with an eye to  
> determine how we might adjust it for the student community.
> Cultural Days
> Cultural Days Programming will include various student programs and  
> activities in support of the Hate-Free Campus Initiative.
> The Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness and Cultural Harmony (REACH)  
> Retreat (January 2011).
> The annual REACH Retreat will incorporate training and activities  
> for student leaders in support of the Hate-Free Campus Initiative.
> The programs, training and activities initiated this year during the  
> Hate-Free Campus Initiative will serve as a foundation for ongoing  
> and future events in support of our effort to stop incidents of hate  
> and bias and build a safe, welcoming and inclusive campus environment.
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