Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i1JGV5I08329; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:31:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:31:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05100305bc5a93e70a3d@[128.148.147.35]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9943] Re: Staff Diversity in ABE ESOL Programs X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 24 and isn't it also about learners and colleagues gaining richer depth in perspectives, understandings, as well as finding people both "like me" and "different from me" in ways that help us see the world more fully? so that diversity is not only about race and ethnicity, but also about ways of knowing, teaching and learning? By no means do I intend to diminish the importance of racial and cultural diversity under discussion, but also want to broaden it, a bit, to include a range of ways of knowing. It has to do with the processes through which a whole bunch of outcomes are reached, no? Janet Isserlis >I think there are two objectives for having a "diverse" staff that I have >followed in this thread: > >A) meeting outcomes related to recruitment and retention of specific student >populations > >B) meeting outcomes related to Federal, state or local EEO/EOE policies > >As long as prospective employees are aware of why they are being hired, the >goal of an ethnically diverse staff seems laudable.
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