DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TOOLKIT:

Strategy O: Partner with other federal agencies/administrations to collaborate on their minority pipeline initiatives, leaning on common goals to reduce disparities and increase resiliencies. Create an undergraduate Disability Studies minor to help build minority student interest in pursuing graduate studies in UCEDD/LEND. Consider creating this minor in partnership with Minority Serving Institutions, and encourage fellow professors to promote it. Develop clearinghouse of relevant pipeline programs UCEDDs and LENDs may partner with and promote.

10/01/2019

Core Functions > Engage in educational and career pipeline activities for staff, faculty and trainees

Partner with other federal agencies/administrations to collaborate on their minority pipeline initiatives, leaning on common goals to reduce disparities and increase resiliencies.

Create an undergraduate Disability Studies minor to help build minority student interest in pursuing graduate studies in UCEDD/LEND. Consider creating this minor in partnership with Minority Serving Institutions, and encourage fellow professors to promote it.

Develop clearinghouse of relevant pipeline programs UCEDDs and LENDs may partner with and promote.

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Becoming a Leader on the Rosebud Indian Reservation (SD UCEDD/LEND)

In September of 2015, the USD Center for Disabilities was one of 14 centers across the country to receive a National Training Initiative (NTI) grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living. This grant gives the Center an opportunity to partner with Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation to design a Diversity Fellowship opportunity. The Center's project focused on supporting a collaborative, immersion, experimental learning approach for two Sinte Gleska University students. 

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