ABOUT DDCP:
The Dartmouth College Diversity Curriculum Project is a project conceived by Dartmouth graduate Shanée V. Brown '12 as a way to directly address the various challenges of exclusivity, prejudice, and intolerance within the Dartmouth community. The Project aims to directly address these ills by creating a student-organized and student-taught curriculum which introduce Dartmouth freshman to opportunities for constructive learning and discussion with their peers about issues pertaining to class, race, gender and sexuality. The curriculum will focus both on broad patterns of exclusion and intolerance in addition to the real-life manifestations of these problems within the Dartmouth Community.
Although Shanée began developing this idea early on in her Dartmouth career based on her believe in the value of educative interaction as a mechanism of social change, the idea assumed true organizational shape in direct response to highly-publicized incidents of intolerance, hazing, and social unrest on campus in the 2012 school year.
In this sense, the Dartmouth Diversity Curriculum Project is both a timely response to recent incidents of hazing, sexual assault, and racial intolerance publicized in student and national publications in recent years in addition to a more long-term plan to address the Dartmouth's ongoing efforts to reconcile the College's emphasis on tradition and academic "selectivity" with its goals to become a more humane and inclusive learning community.
This blog is both one way that the organizers of this project means to gain support for this movement as well as a discussion forum where interested individuals are invited to provide suggestions, insights, proposals, and ideas for the many elements of this project.
We invite you to join our efforts to bring this project before the Dartmouth Administration and Faculty as well as your interest in making Dartmouth the best learning community possible.
Thank you for your interest, time, and consideration!
Although Shanée began developing this idea early on in her Dartmouth career based on her believe in the value of educative interaction as a mechanism of social change, the idea assumed true organizational shape in direct response to highly-publicized incidents of intolerance, hazing, and social unrest on campus in the 2012 school year.
In this sense, the Dartmouth Diversity Curriculum Project is both a timely response to recent incidents of hazing, sexual assault, and racial intolerance publicized in student and national publications in recent years in addition to a more long-term plan to address the Dartmouth's ongoing efforts to reconcile the College's emphasis on tradition and academic "selectivity" with its goals to become a more humane and inclusive learning community.
This blog is both one way that the organizers of this project means to gain support for this movement as well as a discussion forum where interested individuals are invited to provide suggestions, insights, proposals, and ideas for the many elements of this project.
We invite you to join our efforts to bring this project before the Dartmouth Administration and Faculty as well as your interest in making Dartmouth the best learning community possible.
Thank you for your interest, time, and consideration!