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Equity
Equity Committee Meeting Highlights (4 October 2001)
At their meeting on October 4, 2001, members of the Equity Committee viewed the film "Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty". This is an American production but it is well-produced and addresses the benefits and challenges of diversity in Academe. As its liner notes say:
"Shattering the Silences cuts through the rhetoric of the current Culture Wars by telling the stories of eight pioneering scholars - Black, Latino, Native American and Asian American. As we watch them teach, mentor and conduct research, we realize in concrete terms how a diverse faculty enriches traditional disciplines and helps create a more inclusive campus environment."
The Equity Committee will be recommending to the Joint Committee on Affirmative Action that they incorporate this film into the Affirmative Action training sessions. Although the film is long, it is accompanied by a discussion guide suggesting ways to edit for screening according to theme.
The film is available from the library at OISE - Information below:
Shattering the silences
Title: Shattering the silences [videorecording]
: the case for minority faculty / Gail Pellett Productions.
Author: Nelson, Stanley. Pellett, Gail. Ackerman,
Elizabeth. Thigpen, Lynne. Johnson, Parker. Gail Pellett Productions.
California Newsreel (Firm)
Published: San Franscisco, CA : California Newsreel,
c1997.
Subject: Minority college teachers --United States.
College teachers, Black --United States --Social conditions. Hispanic
American college teachers --Social conditions. Academic freedom --United
States.
Other titles: Case for minority faculty [videorecording]
; Minority faculty [videorecording]
Material: 1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
(VHS) + manual.
Notes: Premiered on PBS January 24, 1997. Funding
provided by The Ford Foundation and The Florence and John Schumann
Foundation. Guide by Parker Johnson. Produced/directed/written by Stanley
Nelson, Gail Pellett ; editor, Elizabeth Ackerman ; executive producer,
Gail Pellett. Narrator, Lynne Thigpen.
Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experiences of minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at a wide range of institutions. Also illustrates ways in which teaching and research by these scholars -- who are Asian-American, African-American, Native American, and Latino -- affects students, university communities, and the academic disciplines in which they work, and the triumphs and disappointments they encounter in their personal lives and academic careers.
The information shown above is from the University of Toronto Library Catalogue database.