Congratulations! Dean’s Council on Diversity member Paul Matthews, the 2009 recipient of the COE Diversity Award!     Congratulations DCOD Member Jenny Penney Oliver, 2009 Fulfilling the Dream Award Recipient. Freedom Breakfast participants include (from left) Jenny Penney Oliver, a 2009 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award recipient; U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who gave the keynote address; Provost Arnett C. Mace Jr.; and 2009 President’s Fulfilling the Dream [...]

COE Multicultural Education Grants UGA College of Education Multicultural Grant Recipient 1994 – 2000 Among the recommendations made in the January, 1994 “Summary Report: Issues Clarification Effort, Multicultural Education Initiative” was for the college to provide leadership for multicultural education by allocating funds for support of School and departmental initiatives in multicultural education. This recommendation [...]

A Brief Chronology of The Multicultural Initiative at the College of Education Following is a chronology with brief descriptions of the COE Multicultural Education Initiative. This chronology, with supporting documentation, is intended to demonstrate the process of evolution of this Initiative within the COE. Spring, 1993 The Interdisciplinary Multicultural Education Ad Hoc Committee (IMEC), composed [...]

Archived newsletter about the College of Education’s Multicultural Education Initiative.

Mission Multicultural education is a field of inquiry devoted to research and development of educational policies and practices that (1) recognize, accept, and affirm differences and similarities among peoples; and (2) challenge oppression and structural and procedural inequities that exist in society, generally, and in local educational settings, specifically. These inequities arise from social, historical, [...]