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Toward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaD.Fall 2010 KCP Visiting Professor of Diversity and Communication Organizational and Higher Education ConsultantThis report offers a provisional profile of the status of diversity at Lake Superior State University, based principally upon the King-Chavez-Park visiting Professor appointment that 1 was ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa fortunate to hold during the Fall 2010 semester. I qualify my analysis and assessment as "provisional" because I'm well aware that my observations arApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
e limited by my relatively brief experience and short tenure at LSSU. My four-month KCP position marked the second time that I have visited the LSSU cToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa at a faculty forum, where I spoke about diversity issues at LSSU.During this past Fall 2010 semester, I benefitted from direct experience on campus with students, faculty and staff, gaining insights particularly from teaching two sections of SOCY 103 Cultural Diversity and from numerous Informal co ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawanversations with students, faculty, staff, and administrators. Over the course of the four months I was In residence on campus, 1 recorded extensive fApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
ield notes on my experience and observations on the status of diversity at LSSU. 1 engaged in a kind of participatory research, drawing upon critical Toward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa Values statement, Code of Ethics, EEO statement of compliance, the academic catalog, faculty handbook, prior LSSU accreditation self-studies, past iterations of strategic plans, the 2005 progress report sent to the HLC reporting on assessment and diversity, the HLC response to the 2005 report, a wi ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawade range of statistical and data reports on LSSU, Michigan, public universities In Michigan, and regional and national demographic profiles.1This repoApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
rt is organized into three sections: 1. Overview of the Status of Diversity at LSSU: Productive, Problematic, and Promising; II. Higher Learning CommiToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawat to extend my appreciation and thanks to the LSSU campus community for their kind and generous hospitality during my visit during the Fall 2010 semester. In particular. I am grateful to Dean Gary Balfantz. Vice President Kenneth Peress, Professor Leslie Dobbertin. and Ms. Stephanie Sabatine for mak ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaing this opportunity possible and for their gracious support. Special thanks to Cathy Smith, Jeff Oja, and Colleen Kinghom for their warmth, good humoApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
r, and kindness.]Toward Inclusive Excellence Page 2Section IOverview of the Status of Diversity at LSSU: Productive, Problematic, and PromisingIn OctoToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawao a presentation at a noontime faculty forum. For the forum, 1 offered an admittedly "outsider" perspective on diversity at LSSƯ. 1 titled my presentation, "Yoopers in Da 'Hood: Decentering Diversity, ‘Home,’and Homogeneity." Based principally on online data and documents made available to me by fac ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaulty and administrators at the university at that time, I proposed very tentatively a series of observations about how the state of diversity at LSSUApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
might be assessed with an eye toward general strategies for enhancing existing communities and opportunities, as well as extending future outreach andToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaand are necessarily partial and constrained by my limited tenure at Lake State and by an understanding of LSSU’s history and current status that may come up short in appreciating both the big picture and the subtle nuances that constitute the life and culture of LSSIL In this context, my observation ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawas and conclusions are offered in good faith, however qualified and provisional they might be.Below are general observations about the current state ofApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
diversity at LSSU, characterized in terms of Productive, Problematic, and Promising patterns, trends, and achievements. This overview Is Intended to Toward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaSU, which bodes well for strategic planning and governance. As the initial phases of planning have progressed, diversity considerations have been well represented to date.•Diversity manifests in multiple forms, Identities, and communities on campus. Although this range of diverse constituencies Is n ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaot immediately evident, there is a quietly rich and robust mosaic of differences that belies initial impressions based on the outward appearance of thApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
e campus community.Toward Inclusive Excellence Page 3•The geographical location of LSSU, including the presence of substantial Native American communiToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaas the highest percentage of Native American students of any four-year public university in Michigan and states included in the Great Lakes region (Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota).•Although Native American students collectively graduated al a rale lower than the overall I.SSU student ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaaverage, Native American women in 2008 exceeded the graduation rale of the general student population (see Appendices A and B).•rhe Native American CeApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
nter has become a gathering point, a site where campus and community can and do come together in ways that extend the learning environment beyond the Toward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaienced, and talented faculty and staff, working under severe budgetary constraints, evince a strong base from which to build a more inclusive and welcoming campus.PROBLEMATIC• Diversity at LSSU is an "absent presence": that is, a range of diverse constituencies and communities do exist and arc prese ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawant on campus, but institutionally, they arc hidden, invisible, marginalized. There appears to be no integrated, systemic approach to addressing diversApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
ity, inclusion, and equity concerns al I.ake State. The overarching perspective, which seems to begin and end with a tacit ethic of "First, do no harmToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawartiary ranking in institutional priorities al best. Except for incidental and occasional mentions in the strategic planning process, diversity is otherwise largely if not altogether absent from public discourse. Among most if not all constituencies on campus, diversity and equity arc afterthoughts r ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaather than definitive and integral concerns that could and should be a routine part of policy’ and planning deliberations.Toward Inclusive ExcellencePApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
age 4There are no readily available institutional definitions of 1) what sociocultural dimensions and whose Identities and communities constitute "divToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawanclusion, and academic excellence need to take place routinely and consistently across all university constituencies but particularly need to emanate from the Board of Trustees and senior administrators. Without vocal advocacy and Intentional actions from all segments of the university community, di ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawaversity will remain peripheral and compartmentalized as a matter of institutional philosophy, policy, and practice.Questions of taken-for-granted formApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
s of privilege and entitlement need to be raised and discussed openly and honestly in academic, co-curricular, and professional work settings. (See ApToward inclusive Excellence at Lake Superior State University: A Provisional Profile on the Status of Campus Diversity and EquityGordon Nakagawa, Ph.D ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawag/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2009/IF/Feat/mahl.htm.) Students of color from historically underrepresented and underserved groups (other than Native Americans) are largely “missing in action" at LSSU, literally and figuratively. The numbers are disproportionately low, even given the variables of location, ApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawathe demographics of the region and of student populations in “feeder” schools, and other contingencies.[N.B. There is a curious pattern that caught myApndxA-12_LSSU-Diversity-Report-v-1-FINAL-GNakagawa
attention and might be worth a look. Having examined the IPEDS annual enrollment data from Fall 2001 through 2009,1 noted a sharp spike from 2001 untGọi ngay
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