The New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative, funded by the Bildner Family Foundation in partnership with the Association of American Colleges & Universities and The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), seeks to make diversity a strength on campus and a resource for the future of the state of the New Jersey. Over the next three years (2002-2005), Bildner will invest in colleges and universities as key sites of citizenship and learning, confident that higher education can help reduce prejudice and promote intergroup understanding. Because New Jersey is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, and fifth in the nation in foreign-born residents, the Bildner New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative encourages the state's higher education institutions to embrace campus diversity as an educational resource that can help prepare graduates to live and work in an increasingly diversified society.
Bloomfield College seeks to broaden and deepen diversity knowledge so the campus itself is a more integrated resource for its students and the larger community. Bildner Seminars for Professional and Program Development will offer groups of faculty and staff the opportunity to work intensely together for a semester, particularly on the connections between local and global cultures and issues, cross-cultural communications, student-centered "critical teaching," and ethnographic research with students and their communities. Seminar participants (five groups over five semesters) will apply their learning in revisions of courses, programs, and pedagogies. A new Institute for Cross Cultural Communications will contribute to the seminars and will become a permanent resource for the campus and for all in the community looking for assistance in cultivating intergroup dialogue.
Seminar Participants Spring 2003
Seminar Participants Fall 2003
Seminar Participants Spring 2004
Projects developed by Bildner Participants A listing of projects developed by Bloomfield College participants in the Bildner Family Foundation New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative.
