GCC's Diversity Standing Committee has compiled this list of web resources for faculty, staff, students and the greater GCC community. For more information about the work of the Diversity Working Committee, please see our website, or e-mail diversity@gcc.mass.edu.

Diversity resources

Faculty and curriculum resources

DiversityWeb, the most comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources about diversity in higher education that you can find anywhere. This site is designed to serve campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission

The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. We host conferences and institutes, develop Web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in our continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities

The University of Maryland's Diversity Database is a comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources. Includes resources for faculty and sample syllabi

The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst | Diversity connections provides links for curriculum, affirmative action, policies and links to other national websites.

Heterosexism and homophobia

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation (the Task Force) was the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization and remains the movement's leading voice for freedom, justice, and equality.

PFLAG
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) is a national non-profit organization with over 200,000 members and supporters and almost 500 affiliates in the United States.

National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
National association of legal professionals working to change laws, regulations and practices.

Pink Practice
British resources website.

Western Massachusetts Gender Equity Center
Resources for teachers K-12 and higher education on gender, work and media literacy. A collaborative community college initiative.

Articles

Celebrating Differences-Culture and Individual Diversity
Article from ROTC training program

Creating diversity and culture at WPI
Article from Tech News (student newspaper at Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Toward A Culture of Tolerance: Education for Diversity
Cultural Diversity Education article

Cultural organizations

Diversity Training and Cultural Competence at NCCH
Homepage for the National Center for Cultural Healing. Many informative links.

Institute for Human Services: Center for Culture and Diversity
The Center for Culture and Diversity helps individuals, and the organizations in which they work, develop and refine the capacity to relate to people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds in a sensitive, mutually respectful, and collaborative manner.

ClassMatters.org

Disability

Disability as diversity: a guide for class discussion
Here's how to launch insightful classroom discussions of the issues faced by people with disabilities.


Disability World
A web zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities.

Center for Universal Design
Environments and products for all people!

ADA Basic Building Blocks
A self paced web course that explores the legal requirements and the spirit of the ADA.

Education

Cultural Diversity: Multicultural Issues in Education
Use this site to find about more about diverse issues that interest you.

Multiculturalism and cultural diversity

Language and education links

Native American Education Program
Native American diversity website

Teaching for Inclusion: Diversity in the College Classroom
A publication of the Center for Teaching and Learning-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; published 1998.

Miscellaneous resources

Pathfinders from the GCC Library
Provide an overview of many different diversity resources on the web and in print

Culture and Diversity: Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Site with links to different countries and diversity

Diversity Hub
An interactive resource hub for higher education

Diversity Inc.
Diversity issues newsletter

Diversity links
Site hosted by Wesleyan containing several links of interest

Diversity resources
Links to diversity resources and web sites

Internet resources
This article identifies web sources with emphasis on sites that include institutional vision on diversity issues, recruitment of minority faculty, library organizations working to achieve diversity, and related issues.

National Issues Forum
NIF provdes taling points documents on social issues. It has a networkof participants that promote nonpartisan public deliberation in communities across the country.

National Priorities Project
The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice.

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