CUER

OMA institutes curriculum for administration and student leaders. Excerpt from today’s Spec:

Columbia’s Office of Multicultural Affairs has unveiled a diversity education and training initiative, a previously unaddressed demand from the 2004 protests, to begin in the fall of 2006.

According to Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melinda Aquino, who drafted the initiative, training will be required of certain student leaders and administrators. The four-year curriculum will have four tiers, the first of which will be mandatory for all incoming students through the New Student Orientation Program. The last three will be offered through optional trainings and workshops.

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The initiative’s four tiers correspond to levels of achievement in an understanding of diversity: cultural competency within the community, cultural competency through community sharing, ally development, and social justice and equity.