Greenfield Community College

Diversity resources

GCC's Diversity Standing Committee has compiled this list of web resources for faculty, staff, students and the greater GCC community. For more information about the work of the committee see our website or e-mail diversity@gcc.mass.edu.

Faculty and curriculum resources

• DiversityWeb, the most comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources about diversity in higher education that you can find anywhere. This site is designed to serve campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission
• The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. We host conferences and institutes, develop Web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in our continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities
• The University of Maryland's Diversity Database is a comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources. Includes resources for faculty and sample syllabi
• The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst | Diversity connections provides links for curriculum, affirmative action, policies and links to other national websites.

Heterosexism and homophobia

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation (the Task Force) was the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization and remains the movement's leading voice for freedom, justice, and equality.
• PFLAG
  Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) is a national non-profit organization with over 200,000 members and supporters and almost 500 affiliates in the United States.
• National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
  National association of legal professionals working to change laws, regulations and practices.
• Pink Practice
  British resources website.
• Western Massachusetts Gender Equity Center
  Resources for teachers K-12 and higher education on gender, work and media literacy. A collaborative community college initiative.

Articles

• Creating diversity and culture at WPI
  Article from Tech News (student newspaper at Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Cultural organizations

• Institute for Human Services: Center for Culture and Diversity
  The Center for Culture and Diversity helps individuals, and the organizations in which they work, develop and refine the capacity to relate to people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds in a sensitive, mutually respectful, and collaborative manner.
• ClassMatters.org

Disability

• Disability as diversity: a guide for class discussion
  Here's how to launch insightful classroom discussions of the issues faced by people with disabilities.
  Disability World
  A web zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities.
• Center for Universal Design
  Environments and products for all people!
• ADA Basic Building Blocks
  A self paced web course that explores the legal requirements and the spirit of the ADA.

Education

• Cultural Diversity: Multicultural Issues in Education
  Use this site to find about more about diverse issues that interest you.

Multiculturalism and cultural diversity

• Language and education links
• Native American Education Program
  Native American diversity website
• Teaching for Inclusion: Diversity in the College Classroom
  A publication of the Center for Teaching and Learning-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; published 1998.

Miscellaneous resources

• Pathfinders from the GCC Library
  Provide an overview of many different diversity resources on the web and in print
• Culture and Diversity: Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
  Site with links to different countries and diversity
• Diversity Hub
  An interactive resource hub for higher education
• Diversity Inc.
  Diversity issues newsletter
• Diversity links
  Site hosted by Wesleyan containing several links of interest
• Diversity resources
  Links to diversity resources and web sites
• Internet resources
  This article identifies web sources with emphasis on sites that include institutional vision on diversity issues, recruitment of minority faculty, library organizations working to achieve diversity, and related issues.
• National Issues Forum
  NIF provdes taling points documents on social issues. It has a networkof participants that promote nonpartisan public deliberation in communities across the country.
• National Priorities Project
  The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice.