Diversity Studies and Faculty Partnerships

Diversity Faculty Fellows:

• The Diversity Faculty Fellowship is designed to provide support for HACC faculty who are interested in exploring their own ideas leading to new initiatives that will advance belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion at the College.

• The goals of this fellowship are to enrich how faculty engage with diversity and to infuse a culture of inclusion and diversity within our faculty by creating opportunities for them to utilize their research and experience to create a more inclusive learning environment.

Diversity Scholar-in-Residence:

• This program brings diverse educators and scholars to help the HACC community engage as well as explore contemporary issues. This exploration ensures that we cultivate as well as sustain inclusive excellence, equity and belonging into our learning environments and in our work with students.

Diversity Studies:

• Diversity Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines the social differences and dimensions that are defined by cultural constructions like race, gender identity, gender expression, class, religion, age, sexuality, and other markers of identity. Diversity Studies centers on how our perceptions and our lived experiences influence our individual as well as collective cultural interactions with those identity markers.

• This program investigates structures of power that permeate through systems like education, health care, criminal justice, media, and workplaces while taking an intersectional approach to expose and confront the historical and contemporary sources of conflict whether social or cultural. Lastly, this program highlights the application of analytical and experiential skills to real-world settings.