Ithaca College

The Diversity Awareness Committee would like to pilot a new theme -based funding model in order to encourage the creation and execution of programming based on emerging issues within the fields of diversity, equality and social justice. We are excited to announce this year’s theme will be PRIVILEGE!

The Committee would like to encourage individuals or groups that would like to sponsor events and activities focused around the theme of Privilege to apply for funding from the Diversity Awareness Committee. Our normal DAC funding cycle will continue parallel to this the Theme Funding initiative. However, we will be reserving the bulk of the funds for theme-focused events.

We encourage you to explore “Privilege” in its widest and most inclusive definition. Events may be submitted based on economic privilege, sexual orientation privilege, age privilege, gender privilege, , skin-tone privilege, country of origin privilege, ability privilege… these being only examples, this list is not an exhausted list of all forms of privilege.

Please download an updated application at the following link: https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/committees/docs/DACdoc/DAC_Funding_Request_.doc

Feel free to contact Malinda B. Smith or Michelle Rios-Dominguez with any questions you may have about the process or the theme.

“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise.” ― Bell Hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Sincerely,  

The Members of Diversity Awareness Committee

Co-Chairs:
Malinda Smith: Director of Multicultural Affairs
Michelle Rios-Dominguez: Manager of Diversity and Inclusion

Committee Members:
Bhavani Arabandi: Assistant Professor Sociology
David Dray: Public Safety
Darnell Thompson: Diversity Peer Educator Program
Jean Celeste-Astorina: Student Disability Services
John Rawlins: Assistant Director OSEMA-Multicultural Affairs (Don Austin will serve as proxy)
Kerry Spitze: Academic Advising
Luca Maurer: LGBTQ Education
Maggie Wetter: Office of Residential Life
Wade Pickren: Center for Faculty Development
Evan Layne: Business Administration, MLK Scholar – Class of 2016
Jonathon Cummings: Culture and Communication (H&S), Class of 2015 Senator