action around the globe
This year's Women Faculty Forum seminar series will continue on Wednesday, Feb. 2, with a panel discussion on "Affirmative Action in the Age of Globalization."
This session -- part of the series "Understanding Diversity and Gender in Univerisities: Local and Global Views" -- will examine definitions of diversity and affirmative action within and beyond the United States.
Among the questions that will be explored are: What does "diversity" mean in national, international and academic settings, and how do these definitions impact the models of "affirmative action" that work best in a given national or social context? How does the interplay of governmental, societal and institutional ideas about diversity prove uniquely challenging for undergraduate, graduate and professional school admissions? How does it impact junior faculty placement and promotion? And, as student bodies become increasingly international, how does that change our ideas of affirmative action and of diversity?
The participants will be Carmen Twillie Ambar, dean of Douglass College, The Women's College of Rutgers University; Vicki Schultz (moderator), the Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Richard Shaw, dean of undergraduate admissions, Yale; J. David Slocum, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University; and Orlando Taylor, dean of the Graduate School, Howard University.
The panel discussion will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Rosenfeld Hall, 109-111 Grove St. (entrance on Temple Street). It will be preceded by an appetizer reception at 6 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Women Faculty Forum, the Graduate School Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity, the Trumbull Lectureship Fund and the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program.
The seminar is free and open to the Yale community. Those interested in attending should RSVP as soon as possible at (203) 432-8847 or wff@yale.edu.
The Women Faculty Forum's "Understanding Diversity and Gender in Univerisities: Local and Global Views" series is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity and the Yale Coalition for Diversity. The remaining sessions in the series will be: "Journey to Diversity: Best Practices for a Diverse Academy in the Global Era," March 30; and "Theories, Politics, Strategies: Gender Scholarship and the Global Academy," April 20. More information is available online at www.yale.edu/wff/UDGUseries/.
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