The work of the Multicultural Education Task Force is carried out through
the work of the following subcommittees.
Curriculum
Resources
Faculty and Staff Development
Recruitment and Retention
Communication
Formative Assessment
Network Liaison
COE
Task Force for Multicultural Education
Sub-Committee
Purpose Statements
MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION CURRICULUM SUBCOMMITTEE
:
The
purpose of this committee is to help departments and individuals identify
areas within courses and programs where students need to be better prepared
to work in a culturally diverse society and to support course and program
revision as needed. In the past
two years, the MCTF has focused on curriculum issues related to
multicultural education. Departments
have been asked to develop plans for how they will infuse multicultural
education content into programs and courses.
In July 1998, the Faculty Senate adopted a plan for college
implementation the University‑wide cultural diversity requirement
which all undergraduate and graduate students must meet in the programs of
study. Other purposes of the
sub-committee includes helping departments work on examining and revising
their curricula through providing articles, disseminating results of a
college‑wide survey on what other departments are doing, and by
consulting.
MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE:
The purpose of
the resources sub-committee of the Multicultural Education Task Force is to
continually work toward fulfilling the goals of the multicultural initiative
through the development of projects that will assist individuals in learning
about and locating multicultural resources. We are committed to increasing
access to multicultural resources so that faculty, teachers, staff, and
students can build a knowledge base in multiculturalism that will support
their teaching,
learning, service, and research. We see the use of technology as playing a
critical role in accessing and processing materials and information quickly.
Therefore, we have focused on utilizing a range of technologies, from
traditional print and media forms to web-based technologies
over the Internet to facilitate this process. Our goal is to ensure that
individuals not only have access through the latest web-based technology,
but also can access useful information if they prefer more traditional
media.
FACULTY AND
STAFF DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE:
The purpose of
the multicultural education faculty and staff development sub-committee is
to promote faculty, staff, and student awareness, knowledge, and
communication about multicultural education.
RECRUITMENT AND
RETENTION SUBCOMMITTEE:
The purpose of
the sub-committee on recruitment & retention is to facilitate the
implementation of specific strategies designed to augment diversity within
the COE student, staff and faculty populations, thereby increasing diversity
within the field of education at large.
COMMUNICATIONS
SUBCOMMITTEE:
The purpose of
the communications sub-committee is to communicate information relevant to
multicultural issues and developments associated with the College of Education
Multicultural Initiative and Task Force to:
(a) the COE faculty, staff and students,
(b) other UGA offices, centers and departments,
© community agencies (e.g., community
schools), and
(d) other colleges or universities.
FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT SUBCOMMITTEE (Formerly the Research sub-committee):
This is a new
committee that temporarily replaces the research sub-committee.
The purpose of this sub-committee is to discuss and ultimately make a
recommendation about how (if at all) our college and/or task force
should proceed with assessing the effects/impact/etc. of the multicultural
education initiative. The sub‑committee is referred to as 'formative'
for a good reason! We have discussed on and off over the past couple of years
whether to, and if so, how, we should evaluate our Initiative. There are a lot
of issues to discuss ‑‑ not the least of which is actually forming
the QUESTION(S) we are attempting to answer.
Last updated 1999
