Asma Barlas, Director
To ensure that our students are prepared to meet the increasingly complex demands of a multicultural, multiracial, and multiethnic society and global community, Ithaca College established the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in 1999. Through courses and extracurricular activities, the center will enable students to engage their own identities as well as those of people different from themselves and to understand how we define ourselves in relationship to others. Courses offered by the center will focus primarily on the experiences of groups traditionally marginalized, underrepresented, or misrepresented in our society as well as in the curriculum. At the same time, courses will provide an opportunity to explore and analyze the nature of interconnections between the United States and the rest of the world. The center hopes to function as an important resource for the community to support meaningful dialogue and learning, to develop conversational, conflict-confronting, and conflict-resolution skills, and to serve as a beacon for faculty, speakers, and events that support its objectives.
A steering committee that reports to the assistant provost for special programs and is made up of faculty and administrators is mapping out future directions for the center. The director of the center is Asma Barlas, associate professor and chair of the Department of Politics.
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