Background on
Diversity Committees at Wells College
There are currently four diversity
committees at Wells College: Student Diversity Committee, Staff Diversity
Committee, Faculty Diversity Committee, and President’s Diversity Committee.
These committees originally served as ad hoc groups working independently
and collaboratively on issues affecting diversity at Wells. The 2008-09
academic year will mark the beginning of a more formal role of the diversity
committees in the governance structure of the college. The reasons for
undertaking this change is fourfold:
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It provides a strategic, integrated and
long-term approach for all campus constituencies.
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It provides a formal space for students,
staff, and faculty to engage in institutional change.
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It provides transparency and responsibility
to each of the committee’s constituencies and the campus community as a
whole.
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It symbolizes Wells’ commitment to diversity,
inclusion, interculturalism, and globalism.
This new structure means fundamental changes
in the make-up and tasks of the committees. For example, the student committee
is an official committee of Collegiate Cabinet (Wells’ student government)
with their members elected by students. The Staff Diversity Committee has
joined Staff Forum, the representational body for staff at Wells. The Faculty
Diversity Committee has been working on a proposal that allows it to become
a regular, standing committee of the faculty. It is anticipated that the
notice of motion and proposal will be presented to faculty during fall
term 2008. The President’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, Interculturalism,
and Globalism is now composed of all major adminstrative head and diversity
committee representatives. The task of this specific committee is to develop
a campus-wide strategic, action, and assessment plan.
Student
Diversity Committee
Members
Van Bucsko
Joanna deSupinski
Nicole Fambo
Dr. Gilchrist
Emma L. Henry
Laura Iniguez
Dean Lundquist
Dean McCarthy
Rebecca Moss
Barry Nelipowitz
Aleris l. Pizarro-Lopez
Pershemia Reynolds
Dora-Lisah St. John
Staff
Diversity Committee
Members
Alice Bradley, Admissions
Stephan Gilchrist, Office of Institutional
Diversity
Ken Kabelac, Buildings and Grounds
Joy Lacomb, Financial Aid
Mary Lyon, Bookstore
Phyllis Siemiatkowski, Office of the
Associate Dean of the College
Kit Van Orman, Human Resources
Laurie Nolan, Housekeeping
Cheryl Walsh, Housekeeping
Rhonda Dellinger, Academic Affairs
Elly Ventura, Student Life
Tina Post, Communications
Bob Tapogna, Campus Safety
Hilary Dorsch, Library
Mark Temelko, Communications
Faculty
Diversity Committee
Members
Andre Siamundele, Assistant Professor
of French
Catherine Burroughs, Professor of
English
Christina Wahl, Associate Professor
of Biology
Elsie Torres, Circulation Librarian
Linda Lohn,Associate Professor of
English
Miguel Gil, Professor of Spanish
Steve Gilchrist, Director of Institutional
Diversity
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Professor
of Political Science
Victoria Munoz, Associate Professor
of Psychology
Xiaoliang Zhu, Assistant Professor
of Physics
President's
Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Interculturalism
Members
Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President
Steve Gilchrist, Director of the Office
of Institutional Diversity
Diane Hutchinson, Vice President and
Treasurer
Leslie Miller-Bernal, Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College
Michael McGreevey, Vice President
for Development
Ann Rollo, Vice President for Communications
and College Relations
Anne Lundquist, Dean of Students
John Wells, Director of off Campus
Study
Joel McCarthy, Assoc. Dean of Students
for Resident Life (Student Diversity Rep)
Susan Sloan, Director of Admissions
Cindy Speaker, Associate Dean of the
College
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Professor
of Political Science (Faculty Diversity Rep)
Kit Van Orman, Human Resources (Staff
Diversity Rep)
Christina Wahl, Associate Professor
of Biology (Faculty Diversity Rep)
Last updated 05/30/2008
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