The Office of Institutional Diversity at HMC offers educational programs to engage the campus community in discussions about critical issues and build advocacy skills. This semester's programs addressed topics like international students, disability issues, intersectionality, and stereotype threat. The book club discussed the memoir "Little Failure." Feedback found the programs help develop the whole person and bring awareness to inclusion. After Ferguson, over 130 attended an OID forum to share thoughts, challenge views, and discuss actions against systemic racism. Participants said they would work to decrease stereotype threat and bring safe spaces for all identities.

1. Office of Institutional Diversity
Impact Report
Fall 2014

2.
What We Do
OID currently offers four educational series, a multi-week seminar, a book club,
and other opportunities designed for the entire campus community to engage with
critical topics and key issues, as well as build allyship and advocacy skills.
Identity Intersections:
Faculty Leading
Holistic Lives
The Pull of Place - Is where you are what you are?:
Paul Steinberg
"Staying in Touch with Your Innerchild:
Rachel Levy
Pulling the Curtain Back: Stereotype Threat
"A Thousand Cuts: Microaggressions
Identity Development
Ethnocentrism and Prejudice
Tolerance for Ambiguity
Cycle of Socialization
Levels of Oppression
Empathy vs. Sympathy
Mindfulness & Inclusion
Cycle of Liberation
The World is at HMC: International Students
"Re-Centering the Conversation: Students with Disabilities
Why Diversity at HMC?
Beyond the History Books:
The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
Intersectionality: STEM at the Crossroads
Breaking Barriers: Changing the Landscape
Chew on This!:
A Lunchtime Learning
Series
Building Bridges:
Pathways to Action
Voices: Real Life, Real
Perspectives
Back to the
Future
OID
Bookclub This semester’s book:
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
OID’s book club explores diverse lived experiences through a
collaborative learning environment.

3.
Our Impact
Highlights
Unsurpassed Excellence
and Diversity at All Levels
Nurturing and Developing
the Whole Person
Through the programs, the Office of
Institutional Diversity aligns with the
“HMC 2020: Envisioning the Future”
strategic plan. Participants explain how
OID meets the following:
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“I'm going to work on being more
inclusive, instead of just accepting.
I will try to bring more awareness
and safe spaces for the people in
the community and all aspects of
their identity.”
Providing a Space for
Reflection & Dialogue
"
OID provides space for our community to come together
during critical times. The day after the grand jury decision,
OID hosted an open forum on Ferguson, the justice system,
police brutality, and institutionalized racism. Over 130 in
our community attended, shared their thoughts and
feelings, challenged one another, and talked about ways to
take action in individual ways and to dismantle systemic
racism. At the end of our discussion, a number of Mudders
joined the 5C march across the campuses.
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“I learned about the extent of the impact of
stereotype threat on performance. I will
work towards implementing some of the
excellent strategies shared to decrease
stereotype threat in my classroom.”