WELCOME TO DIVERSITY AT IU SOUTHEAST You are an important part of our quest to build a foundation for a diverse community in this region and the world. We invite you to explore the information, training opportunities, events, and resources that demonstrate our most recent efforts to enhance knowledge of and respect for difference and inclusivity.
IU Southeast’s Strategic Plan, Goal 3 and its objectives and initiatives take an inclusive view of diversity, broadly defined to include age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and socio-economic status.
The Academy’s mission is to provide academic resources for faculty and to showcase their achievements in the design and implementation of curricula, to conduct research, or to extend services that will cultivate a culturally inclusive environment and a habit of mind where diversity of thought and expression are valued, respected, appreciated, and celebrated.
The vision of the Academy is to support faculty teaching, research, and service to help others develop and enrich an enlightened social consciousness whereby each person’s dignity is respected, each person’s perspective is thoughtfully considered, and each person’s needs are taken into account for the benefit of all.
The Academy is directed by Dr. Annette Wyandotte, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. It facilitates the development of faculty and their curricula and methodologies, their research in scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching, and their service to their students, units, and campus on behalf of the Academy’s mission.
To assist faculty professional development, the Academy supports all three areas of faculty responsibility: teaching, research, and service- aimed at enhancing diversity, inclusivity, and/or multicultural awareness at IU Southeast.
Teaching - An analogue in diversity to the Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence, the Academy offers for guidance and tools for faculty to implement or modify curriculum and/or methodology in courses having aims consonant with its mission.
A Faculty Learning Community is one way the Academy supports teaching and learning. FLCs offer 5-7 faculty from across the disciplines a chance to study a topic of common interest. The first semester they learn theory and practice of scholar-teachers and design a curriculum unit to implement in a focus course they will teach the next semester. Participants meet monthly through each term to share ideas and give feedback on the unfolding process.
The 2011 FLC on Curriculum Transformation supported the following diversity projects:
Additional 2010-2011 Academy-related Curriculum Design
Research – The Academy facilitates faculty research in diverse issues through periodic fellowships that provide reassigned time to pursue a project for two sequential semesters, subject to project approval and permission of the faculty member’s dean.
A 2010-2011 Faculty Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Judy Myers in the School of to conduct alternative health collaborative research with Floyd Memorial Hospital on The Clinical and Biochemical Effect of Therapeutic Massage on Fatigue and Insomnia in Women with Breast Cancer Receiving Radiation Therapy.” The Academy awarded the project a $5,000 grant towards implementing the pilot study in January 2011.
A 2011 sponsored publication: Dr. Sheying Chen edited Diversity Management: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches, New York: Nova SciencePublishers, Inc. IU Southeast faculty wrote the following chapters:
Dr. Gilbert W. Atnip, on “Academic Leadership and Diversity”
Dr. Sheying Chen, on “Understanding Race and Ethnicity”
Dr. Judy Myers, on “Violence against Women”
Dr. Seonmin Huh on “Unpacking the Personal and the Social: The Process of Developing Transformative Leaders
A 2010-2011 sponsored research project: The Diversity Academy’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Seonmin Huh, conducted action research on curriculum transformation in sociology, art, and education offered by IU Southeast faculty in Summer 2010 and her results at the 2010 Indiana Symposium of Teaching and Research on Diversity at Indiana State University in November, where she won an award for the best interdisciplinary proposal.
Additional 2010-2011 Academy-facilitated Faculty Research Presentations
“Reading against the Texts: ENL learners’ Critical Reading of Social-issue Books” was presented by Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Seonmin Huh at the Korean English Teachers Association National Conference in Seoul, South Korea, July 2011.
“Empowering Students and Addressing World Englishes: Ways to critique the Power of Standard English” was presented by Academy Director Dr. Annette Wyandotte at theKorean English Teachers Association National Conference in Seoul, South Korea, July 2011.
“Empathy, The Call of Self to Other: A Theoretical Account of Why Literary Study Is a Power-Tool for Social Change” was presented by Dr. Annette Wyandotte at the State Conference of the Indiana College English Teachers, Anderson, IN, October 2011.
“Action Research in the English Classroom: Assessing Prospective English Teachers’ Multiliteracy in Language Applications” was co-presented by Dr. Gloria Murray, Dr. Judy Myers, and Dr. Seonmin Huh at the Eighth St. Louis Qualitative ResearchConference on “Multi-literacies in Research: from Text to You Tube.” University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, March 2011.
“Who Am I_U? A Model of Curriculum Transformation to Cultivate Learners’ Social Identities” was co-presented by Dr. Annette Wyandotte and Dr. Seonmin Huh at the Indiana University Annual Diversity Conference, Bloomington, IN, March, 2011.
“The Ethics and Practical Considerations of Teaching What You’re NOT” was co-presented by Dr. Annette Wyandotte, Dr. Anne Allen, and Dr. Samantha Earley at the Diversity Research and Teaching Symposium, Indiana State University, November 2010. The presenters won one of three awards for the best interdisciplinary proposal.
Service – The Academic Affairs’ Diversity Coordinator serves as Director of the Diversity Academy and a facilitator of and participant in the following diverse areas:
