Diversity Week

Each fall the Center for Multicultural Education sponsors (or co-sponsors) events promoting diversity. This began as a diversity week, but has expanded in scope and time frame over the years. Diversity Week is a celebration, which promotes cross-cultural awareness and appreciation; to address barriers to social justice, equality, and equity; and to foster change toward a more inclusive pluralistic community.

Check out some of the events and photos from past years below:

2009 Diversity Week
Including:

• ♦ Film Series
• ♦ Featured Speaker: Larry Wilmore
  ♦ Late Night @ the CME: "Gran Torino"
  ♦ News Talk: Race in the Obama Era
• ♦ Poetry Slam
  ♦ International Opportunities Fair

2008 Diversity Week
Including:

• ♦ Hot Topic Dialogue
• ♦ Cultural Fair
• ♦ Poetry Slam
  ♦ Featured Speaker: Norma T. Hollis
• ♦ Film Series
• ♦ International Coffee House
• ♦ Roundtable Discussion and Film Screening: "The Darker Side of Fair"
  ♦ Video Games and Discussion

2007 Diversity Week
Including:

• ♦ Multicultural Festival
• ♦ Stevie Wonder Jamz
• ♦ Film Series
  ♦ Featured Speaker: Jon Bul Dau
  ♦ Panel: Efforts Toward Equity in the Cedar Valley

2006 Diversity Week
Including:

• ♦ Voices of Africa
• ♦ Hot Topics Dialogue: "Religion and Racism in the United States"
• ♦ Featured Speaker: Tim Wise
  ♦ Different Voices: A Student Panel
  ♦ Discussion: "Disasters, Natural and Otherwise: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina"

2005 Diversity Week
Including:

• ♦ 9/11 Remembrance
• ♦ Employment Hints Workshop
• ♦ Multicultural Festival
  ♦ Featured Speaker: Bob Zellner
• ♦ Film Series
  ♦ Corning Lecture Series: Thomas Friedman
  ♦ Native American Powwow

Reception, 2007

Larry Wilmore, 2009

Tim Wise, 2006