Document Type
Issue Area One
Abstract
We, as a group, need to first understand how the Waterloo/Cedar Falls community, as a whole, feels about diversity. A community cannot be successful if its people have not realized the enormity of the diversity issue. We must acknowledge there are differences in all of us; whether that difference is in culture, ethnic heritage, race, national origin, religion, gender, age or disability.
“On major challenges to diversity ... A major challenge is fear - fear that with change, there are those who are going to lose - lose jobs, lose contracts, lose status, lose seats in higher education and graduate schools, lose scholarships. Those who exploit that fear, for whatever purposes, present the greatest challenge to diversity.” (Gray, 1995, p. 11 ).
There will be some people who are still in a time warp and think things should be the same as they were 50 years ago, and should stay the same for 50 years to come. This is not reality. Time moves swiftly and will bypass us if we continue to alienate ourselves into groups based on our own prejudices.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
13
Last Page
14
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Culpepper, Alice F.
(1997)
"Ways to Mobilize the Community,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/6
