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Temple leadership ensures diversity remains topic of conversation
Posted Feb 5, 2013
Media Outlet:
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
The attendees are as diverse as the topic. There’s the theater professor whose college experience was a lesson in segregation. And then there’s the sociology adjunct who looks back at her childhood as “stiflingly homogeneous.” “Can we talk? Teaching about race and diversity,” is a monthly meeting of Temple faculty and administrators. “It’s not only about how to teach, but what to teach, and that includes things like managing conflict,” said Pamela Barnett, director of Temple’s Teaching and Learning Center.