The Dean’s Council on Diversity will provide leadership and support for the college’s multicultural education goals and help the college fulfill its Multicultural Education Mission.  This will be accomplished through membership of college faculty, staff and students who will engage in activities and events, as subcommittees, related to the following roles: Advisory, New Directions, Programs, Seminars, Professional Development, Conferences, Workshops and Membership.

Former DCOD member honord with MLK Freedom Award

The University of Georgia presented a faculty member, a doctoral student and a UGA retiree with the 2012 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Awards on Jan. 13 as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast sponsored by UGA, the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government and the Clarke County School District.

Those awarded were Corey Johnson, an associate professor in the UGA College of Education; Roberta Gardner, a doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant in the department of language and literacy education in the College of Education; and Attawa J. Childres, a retiree who worked at UGA for 30 years. They were honored because of their work in the Athens-Clarke County community to make King’s dream of equality and justice a reality.

2012 DCOD Spring Seminars

FEBRUARY  16,  2012         12:20-1:10 PM        G23 Aderhold Hall
Black Women Faculty in Educational Leadership: Unpacking their Silence in Research
April Peters-Hawkins, Dept. of Leadership, Administration, & Policy

MARCH 1, 2012       Noon – 1 PM       135 River’s Crossing
Diverse Meanings: COE Grad Students’ Conversations About Diversity
Lauren Moret,  Ann E. Blankenship, Casie M. Nauman, Edward Joaquin, Mike Smith, & Ain A. Grooms, Ph.D. Students in the College of Education

MARCH  21, 2012   Noon–1:00 PM      G23 Aderhold Hall
Preparing Preservice Teachers to Educate All Students: The Role of Multicultural Mathematics Dispositions
Dorothy Y. White & Victor Brunaud-Vega, Dept. of Mathematics & Science Education