TRANSLATIONS

• New community - a new, large, ever changing, always growing body of committed persons.
• Diversity initiatives - diversity actions including academic, student support services, and administrative actions.
• Multiple voices - we want everyone to be heard, to be given a platform and a voice.
• Grassroots - we want to harness, encourage, and support social change and advocacy that emerges from everyday peoples' concerns, hopes, and actions.
• Engaging - we will engage in unusual and different practices to effectively speak and work with the different groups we will engage in.
• Proactive - we hope to help set milestones and ideas and to set and establish the diversity agenda at the University of Idaho through partnership and leadership.
• Collaborative practice - our goal is to work with one another as allies and partners. We want to share resources, support one another, and to communicate with one another.
• Inclusive - we want to exhibit actions and attitudes that welcome ad encourage everyone's involvement without exception.
• Caring actions - compassionate actions intended to support and promote the individual as well as the collective good.

To join this group or for more information, please contact Professor Rula Awwad-Rafferty, 208.885.6832 or rulaa@uidaho.edu; Professor Margaret Salazar, 208.885.7876 or msalazar@uidaho.edu; Cecilia Alcala, alca3691@uidaho.edu 

 

• Disability Affairs Committee

  A. FUNCTION.

  A-1. To assume major faculty responsibility for monitoring and advancing UI's commitment to ensuring that its programs, activities and services are accessible to persons with learning, sensory, physical and other disabilities. The committee works closely with administrative officers and recommends policies and procedures to address specific disabled access challenges at UI, consistent with requirements of applicable regulations and regents' policy.

A-2. To provide periodic review and recommendations regarding the transition plan to improve accessibility to university facilities.

A-3. To provide particular guidance and leadership in the area of accommodations for persons with disabilities in academic programs.

A-4. To submit periodic reports on its activities to the Faculty Council.

B. STRUCTURE AND MEMBERSHIP. Six faculty members including one academic administrator, two staff members, and two students. It is recommended that one member be from the Library and one of the staff members be from Facility Design, Capital Planning, or Construction Management. The Director of Human Rights Compliance (HRC), the Coordinator for Disabled Student Services, and the Director of Student Support Services shall also serve continuously as ex-officio members without vote; the HRC director will provide staff support to the committee. To provide the necessary expertise and continuity of operation, members may serve successive terms. 

•  Juntura

A. FUNCTION. To review university policies and programs affecting under-represented and/or under-served students in consultation with various representatives from student services and programs; to recommend changes and additions in university policies and programs that enhance student academic success; and to promote the values of respect, understanding, and equality within a diverse university experience. [See also 4340.] [rev. 9/02]

B. STRUCTURE. Five faculty or staff members (one of whom serves as chair), four students (at least three of whom are under-represented and/or under-served students), one staff representative from the Office of Multicultural Affairs, one representative from Student Support Services, the Director of Multicultural Affairs (w/out vote), the Director of the Women's Center (w/out vote) and the Human Rights Compliance Officer (w/out vote). [rev. 9/02, 7/04] FSH 1640.58

Visit Juntura's website:  http://www.students.uidaho.edu/juntura

Mission Statement: The Native American Advisory Board advises the President and Provost through the Vice President for Student Affairs, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Special Assistant to the President for Diversity and Human Rights. The Board serves as a resource and advisor on issues affecting Native American students at all University of Idaho locations. The Board may occasionally meet with the President's Native American Advisory Council.

Goals: To recommend and assist in developing strategies specific to Native American populations as they relate to Objective 6 of the University of Idaho Strategic Plan. (See attached) For example the Board will serve in an advisory capacity for the American Indian Studies Minor.

Membership: Participating members and University officials will be tribal higher education coordinators (10) or their designee, two or more alumni representatives, five student representatives (chairs of NA student organizations [4], 1 Graduate student)

Membership is open to any tribe represented by students at the University of Idaho. Tribes currently represented on the board are the Coeur D'Alene, Colville, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla IndianReservation, Kalispel, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock, Shoshone-Piaute, Spokane, and Yakama.

• Presidential Campus-Wide Diversity Programming Group

The group began operation in May of 2004 and has successfully developed 5 major theme groups of activities and more than 25 mini-grants related to diversity programming have been awarded to a wide variety of campus entities. Among the major themes for the 2004-2005 academic year are: 

• Hispanic/Latino Issue
• Sexual Orientation/Gender issues
• Understanding of other cultures/International cultural awareness
• Asian-American/Pacific Island Issues
• Disability themes

Each of these themes has already seen related programming on the UI campus for the 04-05 academic years.

There have also been 55 mini-grant applications submitted for the DIGG grant for the ’04-’05 academic year and 31 of these have received some funding support through this group's awarding process. Some of the topics of these mini-grants has included such diverse items as:

• A video study of multicultural students in the CORE classes
• A law school student training session
• Alternative service breaks for spring break
• Support for presentations related to the international jazz collection

• UNITY

MISSION STATEMENT
UNITY exists at the University of Idaho through the support of the Office of Multicultural Affairs to promote and support multicultural clubs and organizations, their mission statements and activities. UNITY works to share information about its members' events and provides opportunities for collaboration to mutual benefit. UNITY exists to advocate on behalf of the issues and concerns of these united diverse clubs and organizations.

PURPOSE
A: Promote an inclusive and positive atmosphere for all people.
B: Encourage, support and spread the ideas and beliefs of member organizations.
C: Inform organizations and their members of activities and events produced and supported by member organizations and UNITY.
D: Give financial support to UNITY members.
E: To promote and build an ongoing and continuous relationship between UNITY and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.