Overview
The 2013 Diversity Leadership Symposium: Enriching Our Cultural Competencies included a day of interactive presentations and discussions addressing a wide array of topics related to enhancing the experience of all faculty, staff and students on Ohio college campuses. Topics will be focused on moving beyond simply appreciating diversity or differences to understanding power dynamics and history.
Objectives
- Identify and define what cultural competence is and how it can be used to foster or enhance leadership.
- Cultivate and practice the skills needed to develop a culturally competent environment.
- Creating a safe space for authentic dialogue within, across, and between groups
Sessions/Speakers
Keynote Address- Cultural Intelligence: A two-hour knowledge and skill building session by David Livermore, President and partner of the Cultural Intelligence Center
Concurrent Session- Interfaith Understanding and Respect by Dr. Tarunjit Butalia, Research Scientist
 
Concurrent Session- Diversity Initiatives at the Student Level in Agriculture by Kaitlyn Murray and Allison Pullin, Students in the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
 Concurrent Session- Implicit Bias- Who Me? by Jennifer Beard, Assistant Director, OSU Women’s Place and Hazel Morrow-Jones, Director, OSU Women’s Place
Concurrent Session- Disability as Diversity by L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator, The Ohio State University
Concurrent Session- Open Doors Module 1: An Introduction to Bias by Bowen Marshall, Open Doors Program Manager, GAA Office of Student Life
2013 Diversity Leadership Symposium Program Booklet