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Higher Education Coalition Launches Initiative to Foster Diversity, Equity, and Civic Preparedness
"Inclusive Excellence" initiative focuses on preparing New Hampshire's students to meet society's needs in the face of changing demographics
Concord NH, March 16, 2011 - Today a coalition of higher education leaders launched a bold initiative aimed at ensuring that New Hampshire's students leave college prepared for participation in an increasingly multicultural democracy. The initiative, called Enhancing Inclusive Excellence in New Hampshire Communities, will create resources and models for "inclusive excellence" - that is, preparing students to live and work in a world that is multicultural, multilingual, and multiracial and whose borders and boundaries are blurring into an ever-expanding global community and economy. (read more)
Enhancing Inclusive Excellence in New Hampshire Higher Education Learning Communities
NH Inclusive Excellence Strategic Guide 2011-2016 (read the guide)
EPSCoR – Partnerships for Research and Education (read more)
 | Broadening Community Participation in STEM: NH Statewide Meeting The New Hampshire Inclusive Excellence Advisory Board hosted a summer
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
conference/meeting on Friday, June 17, 2011. The goal of the initiative was to enhance
NH's capacity to develop a talented, robust and eclectic STEM oriented
workforce, capable of performing, adapting and thriving in a dynamic
knowledge-driven economy.
To read excerpts from the meeting and meet the speakers (click here) |
The University makes its expertise and its experts available to serve the public good through our research and teaching programs and interdisciplinary institutes.
Over the last eight years, the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach, under the leadership of Drs. Julie E. Williams, Karen Graham, Cameron Wake, Eleanor Abram, Barry Rock, Steve Hale and a number of other faculty have developed a long-term, multi-faceted partnership with Elizabeth City State University (an historically black university). The partnership capitalizes on complementary strengths in earth system science and remote sensing education and research on both campuses. Over the years there have been a number of successes including: a. the submission of 9 proposals and the funding of 4 grants by NSF and NASA that support the partnership, b. the publication of a journal article that describes and evaluates the funded projects of the partnership, c. the presentation of more than 25 collaborative presentations by faculty and students that have been presented at national and international conferences, and d. work with a range of undergraduate, graduate and public school students at both universities. For more information go to Engagement and Academic Outreach
The Black New England Conference is a 2-day conference that gathers scholars, teachers, researchers, community members and members of local organizations to share their work and insights on the Black experience past and present in New England. It is both an academic conference and a celebration of Black life and history in New England. Read more about BNEC
The Black Heritage Partnership
The Black Heritage Partnership was created in 2004 to facilitate greater interaction of the campus community with the African American community beyond the campus. Several of the projects started under this initiative will continue through the Diversity Initiatives office. Two projects that are currently in the works are 1) the creation of a curriculum guide for K-12 public school teachers to use in teaching local Black history and 2) the creation of a statewide Black Heritage Trail.
