Diversity

Diversity Useless Lectures On Wednesday, April 3, a “Diversity Enlightenment Session” held in the Cardinal Lounge was presented by the Director of the Center for Diversity, Pluralism and Inclusion (CDPI), J.W. Wiley. As Wiley said, the Center’s goal is to inform people that diversity is all around them, and that diversity affects everyone. In order to do this, Wiley went over some ten exercises. These exercises included titles such as “thought exercise, diversity and you, diversity experiences, toleration scale, and privilege.” Even though the objective of the workshop was to raise awareness of diversity, and to increase the attendee’s comfort with differences around them, comfort was anything but present. Wiley proceeded to lecture on the subject rather than present the interactive workshop he intended. CDPI’s mission is to get people to “Acknowledge your level of sophistication about diversity, and realize that you will never be as sophisticated about diversity as you would tike to be!” Along with “At minimum, seek exposure; at a maximum, attempt to immerse yourself in environments that are outside the comfort zone in which you have been socialized.” And finally to, “Constantly remind you that diversity involves you.” Comfort was a large focus by Wiley diversity, wiley, people, comfort, workshop, lecture, audience, around, though, surroundings, something, sentence, realize, rather, present, plattsburgh, mr, made, know, important, exercises, even, awareness, about, zone, yourself, wrong, world, working, word, white, wednesday, way, very, useless