Dr. M. Cookie Newsom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC-CH Employees by gender and race RaceSex EPA non-faculty SPATotal EPA and SPA WhiteMale4531,7782,231 Female6362,5993,235 Subtotal race:1,0894,3775,466 African- American Male Female Subtotal1021, Native American Male279 Female11118 Subtotal31827 AsianMale Female Subtotal HispanicMale93645 Female Subtotal OtherMale033 Female044 Subtotal077

Race/genderProfessorAssoc Professor Assist Professor Fixed term White Male Female African-American Male Female Native American Male1231 Female0011 Asian Male Female Hispanic Male Female48429 Total Professors3,424

 Goal 1. Clearly define and publicize the University’s commitment to diversity.  Goal 2. Achieve the critical masses of minority populations necessary to ensure the educational benefits of diversity in faculty, staff, students and executive, administrative and managerial positions.  Goal 3. Make high quality diversity education, orientation, and training available to all members of the university community.  Goal 4. Create and sustain a climate in which respectful discussions of diversity are encouraged and take leadership in creating opportunities for interaction and cross group learning.  Goal 5. Support further research to advance the University’s commitment to diversity and to assess the ways in which diversity advances the University’s mission.

 Implemented in the Spring of 2007  34 Schools and Units asked for reports Tied to the Budget process Required to include which of the five University Diversity Goals they were going to prioritize this academic year, their action plan and their evaluation methods. AS of the reports include outcomes from and plans for 10-11

 Will be conducted this fall  Will be used to determine programming and changes to the Diversity Plan for

 Everyone is made up of variables that have an impact on the way they view the world  These variables are sometimes called “filters” the implication being that we pass external stimuli, written, oral and visual, through these filters to make sense of them  It is impossible for people to be unaffected by their own unique filters when making judgments, drawing conclusions and making decisions.

Cultural Filters AgeRaceGender Economic Class ExperiencesReligionEducation Sexual Orientation

 Cultural Discontinuities? Co-workers Others  Communication Issues? Co-workers Others  Ability to support a common goal?  Other issues? Middle Class values versus poverty behavior What is normal? Who gets to decide? What is acceptable? Who gets to decide? What is cultural, what is socio-economic based?

 Questions  Comments