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APPENDIX II:
Glossary For The Strategic Plan On Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
AALANA
Acronym for persons
belonging to the following groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asian
Americans/Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans/Native Alaskans.
Cultural competence
The ability to work effectively in cross-cultural situations and or
within a diverse culture.
Source: Defining Diversity:
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA). 2006.
Diversity
a.
Individual differences (e.g., personality, learning styles, and life
experiences) and group/social differences (e.g., race/ethnicity, class,
gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, and ability as well as
cultural, political, religious, or other affiliations) that can be
engaged in the service of learning.
Source:
Association of American Colleges and Universities. 2007.
b.
. . . Diversity is an inclusive value
that encompasses race and ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, sexual identity and gender expression, age, ability,
socio-economic status, and other aspects of identity.
Source: College at Oneonta
Diversity Statement, Strategic Plan on Equity Diversity and Inclusion,
page 10.
Equity
a. The
belief, commitment, and process that ensures that all students have the
right to be successful earners in an environment that honors the
uniqueness of each individual.
Source:
The Eisenhower Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education
Reform. 2000.
b.
Equity is providing
resources and support, according to need, in order to create an
environment that encourages the fullest participation of its members
through the recognition and acceptance of differences. Equity is more
than equality. It is more than access. Equity is developmental and
systemic and is the responsibility of the entire community.
Source:
New York State
Education Department. Office of Equity and Access. 1994.
Ethnic
Relating to people grouped according to
a common racial, national, tribal, cultural, linguistic origin.
Source: Defining Diversity:
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA). 2006.
Gender
Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behavior, activities
and attributes that a particular society considers appropriate for men
and women.
Source: Women, Gender, and
Health. World Health Organization. 2007.
Gender Expression
All external characteristics and behaviors, which are socially defined
as either masculine or feminine, such as dress, mannerisms, name,
physical characteristics, and speech patterns.
Source:
Empire State Pride Agenda Foundation. 2007.
Gender Identity
A person’s innate, deeply felt psychological identification as male or
female, which may or may not correspond to the person’s body or assigned
sex at birth.
Source: Empire State Pride
Agenda Foundation. 2007.
Inclusion
The active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity—in
people, in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in communities
(intellectual, social, cultural, geographical) with which individuals
might connect—in ways that increase one’s awareness, content knowledge,
cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding.
Source:
Association of American Colleges and Universities (http://aacu.org/inclusive_excellence/index.cfm)
LGBTQ
acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer
Persons of color
People of non-European ancestry. All persons self-identifying by the
general categories of African American or Black; Hispanic, Chicano or
Latino; Asian or Pacific Islander; American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Source: Defining Diversity:
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA). 2006.
Race
The concept of race reflects self-identification by people according to
the race or races with which they most closely identify. These
categories are sociopolitical constructs and should not be interpreted
as being scientific or anthropological in nature. Furthermore, the race
categories include both racial and national-origin groups.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau,
2000 Census of Population. Public Law, 94-171.
Recruitment
To seek out, engage, and attract potential faculty [employees and
students].
Source: The National Campus
Diversity Project. 2004. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
campusdiversityproject@gse.harvard.edu.
Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or
affectional attraction to another person.
Sexual orientation exists
along a continuum that ranges from exclusive homosexuality to exclusive
heterosexuality and includes various forms of bisexuality.
Sexual orientation is different from sexual behavior because it
refers to feelings and self-concept. Persons may or may not express
their sexual orientation in their behaviors.
Source:
www.apa.org/topics/orientation.html
Stereotypes (Racial/Ethnic/Cultural)
The simplifying belief that all people of a certain racial, ethnic, or
cultural group are the same and behave the same way.
Stereotype Threat
“Societal stereotypes about groups can influence the intellectual
functioning and identity development of individual group members.
Negative stereotypes about intellectual abilities can act as a threat
that disrupts the performance of students targeted by bad reputations.
To experience stereotype threat, one need not believe the stereotype nor
even be worried that it is true oneself.”
Source:
Steele, C. M. A
Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and
Performance. American Psychologist, 52 (6): 613-629. 1997. or
www.psycinfo.com/library/display.cfm?document=amp/1997/june/amp526613.html
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According to Aronson and Colleges (2001)
the basic notion of the Stereotype Threat model is that “in situations
where a stereotype about a group’s intellectual abilities is relevant,
taking an intellectually challenging test, being called upon to speak in
a class and so on” the person in that stereotyped group have an extra
cognitive and emotional burden not applicable to people for whom the
stereotype does not apply.
Source: Aronson, J., Fried,
C., and Good, C. 2002. Reducing the Effects of Stereotype Threat on
African American Students by Shaping Theories of Intelligence. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 113-125. or www.idealibrary.com
Transgender
Transgender is
an umbrella term used to designate a community of people who
regularly present in a gender different from the sex assigned to
them at birth and who live a significant part of their lives in that
gender. This includes people who have undergone medical procedures
to change their sex and those who have not.
Source: Empire State
Pride Agenda Foundation. 2007.
Unlawful
Discrimination
Discrimination means treating
people differently. But treating people differently does not necessarily
constitute unlawful discrimination. For example an employer can
choose to hire one person instead of another based on merit, or a
restaurant can turn people away if admission would cause the restaurant
to exceed occupancy limits. Discrimination is unlawful if it is based
on an individual’s or group’s race, color, national origin, religion,
sex, gender identity, creed, sexual orientation, disability, or
veteran’s status.
Source:
New York State Division of Human Rights.
NY. US. Brochure. 2007.
www.DHR.State
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