Society is seeing a steady increase in the visibility of LGBTQ+1 individuals in the public, and the general workplace is becoming, at least partially, more supportive, with increasing protections and benefits for the LGBTQ+ community. However, even with this progress, homophobia continues to run rampant in the area of team sport and exercise. The…

Diversity in educational settings is generally understood as the body of services and programs offered to students, faculty, and staff that seek to ensure compliance with non-discrimination and related policy and law, and to affirm social membership group differences (broadly considered) in curricular, co-curricular, and workplace contexts. Given…

In this article the authors wonder--why has the academic community not stepped through the looking glass to see what diversity looks like and what might be learned when Whites are in the minority? They believe there is much to be learned from exploring the experience of White college students and their perceptions of race and racism when they…

The idea for the Intergroup Dialogue as Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (INTERACT) Pilot Project emerged, quite organically, from the cross-pollination of two major initiatives of the Office of Human Relations Programs (OHRP), the equity compliance and multicultural education arm of the Office of the President at the University of Maryland, College…

Surveyed and interviewed full-time faculty in colleges of education at four urban, Midwestern, universities to determine their perceptions, practice, and knowledge of diversity issues in addressing commonly mandated directives in pre-service programs. Respondents attempted to meet national accrediting standards, offered special required courses,…

Describes an arts-based approach to the study of multicultural education that challenges pre-service students to address various relevant topics while enabling an aesthetic understanding of the issues. Examines how the creation of artwork serves as a personal act of meaning-making for students, allowing them to create a vision for a project of…

Investigated the impact of an immersion experience, involving an interfaith trip to Holocaust sites in Poland, on preservice teachers' knowledge and beliefs regarding the Holocaust. Notes the extent to which they made connections between the Holocaust and contemporary racism, intolerance, and injustice. Pre- and post-experience data indicated that…