Diversity Awareness

Campus Diversity Resources

Offices and Services
• ALAS: Association of Latin American Students
• Black Student Union
• Office of Student Life
• The HCC Women's Center
• Veterans Services

Academic Resources
• Housatonic Library
• Teaching Tolerance

Diversity Awareness 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