Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs serves in an advisory role to the African American Student Union's Black Leadership Conference. Founded in 2003, the annual two-day conference promotes black leadership through inspiring speakers and how--to workshops every Spring.
Disability and Diversity Week:
Disability and Diversity Days, held each Fall, is designed to promote heightened awareness, acceptance, and understanding of persons with diverse backgrounds and persons with disabilities within the Georgia Tech community. Typical events include a kick off event in collaboration with the Biomedical Engineering / Masters Program in Prosthetics and Orthodontics, speakers, town halls, and a movie with a disability/ diversity-related theme.
The Diversity Forum's mission is to capture the voice of the campus community relative to diversity issues. It will encourage dialogue by providing an open forum in which to raise and explore a broad range of diversity issues impacting our community. It will strive to represent the entire campus community in a balanced manner to include students, faculty and staff. In carrying out its mission, the Diversity Forum will organize, publicize, and host periodic Town Hall meetings focused on specific diversity issues of importance to our campus community. It will strive to create an environment in which respect for differences among individuals within our community is always present.
The Diversity Forum provides routine feedback to the President through representation on the Diversity Council and the President's Steering Group on Diversity. This feedback provides a basis for developing specific programs to further improve the campus diversity climate and to build a stronger sense of community within our campus.
Georgia Tech’s Office of Diversity Programs assists with the logistics
of the Power Over Prejudice conference held at Georgia Tech each year.
The Junior League of Atlanta founded the Atlanta Prejudice Awareness Summit
(now Power Over Prejudice Summit) with the Atlanta chapter of Jewish Women
International in 1997. At POP, middle-school students from about 50 area
schools are immersed in a day of activities designed to broaden their
awareness of, and make them want to take action against, prejudice. The
day includes a powerful key note speaker, small break out groups among
students from different schools, meaningful role-play designed to address
fears and concerns about prejudice and bullying as well as a final session
with their own schoolmates and guidance counselors. For more information
on Power Over Prejudice and the In-School Follow Up Program, visit www.antiprejudice.org,
or contact Yashica Doyle,
or 678-547-0084.
The Safe Space Program provides a way for people supportive of GLBTQ concerns to identify themselves to the campus and to help gay or questioning students, faculty and staff. The Office of Diversity Programs works with a student coordinator to administer this program, established in 2003.
The program’s overarching goal is to educate the public and provide a safe atmosphere and open environments for people who have questions about gender and sexuality, whether in their own lives, in the lives of family and friends, or in the wider culture.