Internal Category

Diversity Awareness Committee

• Mission Statement
• U. S. Government Diversity and Inclusion
• HCC Affirmative Action Policy
• Members
  • Susan Monroe (chair)
  • Ryan Farrington
  • Mark Gore
  • Michelle Kocay
  • Jennifer Nohai-Seaman
  • Sarah Carter
  • Theresa Eisenbach
  • Anthony Morejon
  • Anna C. Cruz
  • Saulo Colon
  • Indira Reddy
  • Kofi Adomako-Ayisi
  • Felisha Guirand
  • Kelly Hope
  • Julie Kizershot
  • Driss Mellouk
  • Pres. Paul Broadie
  • Marilyn Albrecht

Campus Diversity Resources

• Offices and Services
  • ALAS: Association of Latin American Students
  • Black Student Union
  • Accessibility Services
  • Office of Student Life
  • The HCC Women's Center
  • Veterans Services
• HCC Diversity Related Departments and Courses
  • Modern Languages
  • History of Women in the U.S.
  • African American History I
  • African American History II
  • Racial and Ethnic Diversity
  • Sociology of Women
  • The African American Experience
  • The Puerto Rican Experience
• Academic Resources     
  • Housatonic Library
  • Teaching Tolerance

Diversity Resource Links 

• Ability
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Ability Path Resources for Life After High School
  • Associations
    • American Association of University Women 
        National organization improving the lives of women since 1881
    • Association for Asian American Studies
        Promotes excellent academic standards and research in the field of Asian Studies
    • National Women's Studies Association 
        Promotes the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender
• Education
  • American Association of Community Colleges
      Provides a national voice and advocacy for community colleges
  • Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
      Champions Hispanic success in higher education
  • Women in Higher Education 
      Works to increase the number of women in higher education leadership
  • National Research Center for College and University Admissions (Diversity) 
     Assists colleges and universities in identifying students who can benefit from higher education
• Gender
  • American Men's Studies Association 
      Advances critical study of men and masculinity through teaching research and critical practice in the field of men's studies
  • Topics on Modern Muslim Women Database
      Focuses on women, Islam and digital culture 
  • The State of Women in America
      Center for American Progress (2013)
  • More to Do: The Road to Equality for Women in the United States                        
      The MS. Foundation for Women (2013)
• LBGT
  • PFLAG National
      The nation's largest family and ally organization
  • glbtnearme.org
      Resource for finding local LGBT support
  • LGBT rights by country or territory    
    Wikipedia article about current, varying LGBT rights and laws by country or territory.
  • Human Rights Campaign
      Largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group in the US. 
  • HRC International
    International section of HRC’s website which focuses on LGBT issues around the world, not only here in the US.
  • It Gets Better
      “The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual   and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes need to make it better for them.” 
  • GLBT National Help Center
      Provides support, community connections, and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. 
  • The Bilerico Project
      Intelligent political and cultural commentary on LGBT issues. 
  • The Advocate
      A leading gay news source, operated by Here Media, which oversees other leading LGBT resources, like Out Magazine and Gay.com. 
  • Diverse Issues in Higher Education
    
• Multiculturalism
  • Ethnic News Watch  ( HCC Library Database.) 
  • The National Association for Multicultural Education
  • American Studies Association 
      Promotes meaningful dialogue about the U.S. throughout the U.S. an the globe
  • Caribbean Studies Association 
      Promotes Caribbean studies forma multidisciplinary, multi  cultural point of view 
  • Latin American Studies Association 
      Promotes intellectual discussion and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean and its peoples throughout the Americas
• Publications 
  • Diverse Issues in Higher Education 
      Seeks to build educational, cultural, social and economic structures that will allow every individual to achieve his or her full human potential 
  • Diversity and Democracy
      Publication of American Association of Colleges and Universities
  • Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 
      Publication of the American Psychological Association
  • Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine      
      Hispanic news source for higher education 
  • The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 
      Conscientious investigation of the status and prospects for African Americans in higher education 

Events / Programming

SPRING 2015

Out Loud: Middle Eastern Culture

• Film Series 
  • Wajdja
  • The Other Son
  • The Attack
  • Women Without Men
  Guided Exhibition: A Glimpse of Arab Culture See Flyer...
• Related Links
  • PBS Global Connections: The Middle East
  • Middle Eastern Culture: State  University of New York (Albany)

Social Justice Teach-in See Flyer...

• Related Links
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • Center for Economic and Social Justice

Black History Month Lecture

• Khalila Brown-Dean, Associate Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University 
  Theme: "Higher Education for Higher Good" See Flyer...

FALL 2014

Out Loud: Faith

• See Flyer...
• Out Loud Faith: PowerPoint 
• Panel on Religious Tolerance
  • Imam Nasif Muhammad
  • Al-Aziz Islamic Center, Bridgeport, CT 
  • The Rev. Cass L. Shaw, President and CEO,  Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport 
  • Virginia Smith, Congregation President, Unitarian Universalist, Church of Greater Bridgeport
  • Rabbi Daniel Victor, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Bridgeport, 

SPRING 2014

PBS Documentary: After Newtown: Guns in America

Films

• The Visitor
• El Norte
• The Other Son

Latinos in Higher Education

Endia Beale: Can I Touch It?