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Office for Diversity and Academic Advancement
North College Room 122
1-860-685-3704

The Office for Diversity and Academic Advancement's mission is to create and facilitate a multitude of entryways for the campus community to contribute their talents, expertise, interests, and institutional responsibilities in pursuit of inclusive excellence. Inclusive excellence links diversity with academic advancement in order to contribute to fostering students’ development of the Ten Essential Capabilities. Inclusive excellence pays particular attention to strengths that students from traditionally marginalized groups bring to Wesleyan University.

The Office for Diversity and Academic Advancement has eight major priority areas. They are:

1. Diversity as a systemic educational process for achieving institutional excellence
2. Student Success
3. First Year Matters
4. Student Academic Resource Network (SARN)
5. Disabilities Services
6. Difficult Dialogues
7. Academic and international components of orientation
8. Office of International Student Affairs

Each of the above priorities complements the others and contributes to the Dean of the College’s mission, which is to enhance student development by fostering an inclusive and responsible learning community in order to prepare students to be active citizens of the world.

The Office is complemented with a Coordinating Committee. The ODAA Coordinating committee's mission is to create and facilitate a multitude of entryways for the campus community to contribute their talents, expertise, interests, and institutional responsibilities in pursuit of inclusive excellence. The objective is to explore possible collaborations and partnerships in which ODAA can support mutual goals in advancing  institutional priorities.

ODAA continues to partner with faculty on grants, coordinates several student prizes and awards, assists faculty with questions about diversity in the classroom, and provides academic advancement programs (i.e., learning strategies and study skills).

Affirming Identities, Building Community, Cultivating Leadership
ABCs for Engagement guide ODAA's work. The ABCs are: Affirming Identities as a necessary prerequisite for building community, Building Community through complex and difficult dialogues to increase our collective sphere of influence, and Cultivating Leadership in individuals to lead by example and in the service of social justice. Continue to view the ABCs Theory In Action.
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05/09/2008 11:43 AM

The Sean Bell Case and Implications/Connections at Wesleyan On May 5, 2006, activists wearing black organized a call to the Wesleyan community to listen and recognize how systemic oppression and racism invoked by the Sean Bell Case occurs on campus. Specifically, the organizers raised how racial profiling plays out on campus and cited two incidents from last year, as well as [...]