TOCAR
"Training Our Campuses Against Racism"

TOCAR

Training Our Campuses Against Racism

 Minnesota State University Moorhead

Concordia College

North Dakota State University

Northwest Technical College

First-Year Report and Request for Second-Year Funding

October 25, 2001-October 31, 2002

     The following is a summary of the activities and accomplishments of the Training Our Campuses  Against Racism initiative (TOCAR) for the period October 25, 2001 through October 25, 2002.  In this first year, the TOCAR  Collaborative established TOCAR chapters, held  antiracism trainings and developed antiracism teams on each campus. The initial campus Level 1 antiracism trainings exposed approximately 204 people to a beginning analysis of institutional racism.  From this pool of people, antiracism teams were formed on each campus and trained at a Level 2 Team Training in June 2002.   These teams range in size from 7 (NTC), 15 (NDSU), 19 (Concordia), to 20 (MSUM).  These teams are comprised of faculty, staff, students and some community members.

     The Collaborative also has begun working with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities 
system and the North Dakota Universities System to create antiracism initiatives within those systems.  In addition, Collaborative members have made presentations about the initiative at numerous conferences and public forums. 

     The Otto Bremer Foundation’s grant to TOCAR has been a critical catalyst for initiating change aimed at dismantling institutional racism and improving campus and community climate in Moorhead-Fargo.  The impact of the initiative’s first year activities has been to place antiracism on the developmental agenda of these institutions of higher education and to involve increasing numbers of individuals in the processes of dismantling institutional racism.  Through public speaking, media coverage and co-sponsorship of community forums, TOCAR has also helped raise awareness of racial justice and human rights issues in the larger Moorhead-Fargo community.   Furthermore, the state university systems of both Minnesota (MnSCU) and North Dakota (NDUS) are considering initiatives based on the work and structure of TOCAR.

     TOCAR’s second year grant activities will focus on institutional assessment and antiracism plan development for each campus.   In addition, TOCAR will be sponsoring Level 1 antiracism trainings at MSUM and NDSU (with MSUM and NDSU institutional funding leveraged by the Bremer grant).  These trainings will be funded by additional monies allocated by these two institutions to increase the numbers of people exposed to antiracist perspectives on these campuses.  In order to continue the work of this initiative, TOCAR requests that the Foundation forward, at its earliest convenience, the second installment of the grant in the amount of $38,500 to: 

Phyllis May-Machunda

            Humanities/Multicultural Studies Dept.

            Minnesota State University Moorhead
            Moorhead, MN 56563  

     The following list of TOCAR accomplishments is organized according to the TOCAR work plan as outlined on pages 10-11 of the TOCAR grant proposal to the Bremer Foundation.   Activities and accomplishments are listed under each project phase and are the result of efforts made by TOCAR participants on all four campuses.

Planning Phase I: Organizational Development and Outreach

1. Recruited faculty, staff, and student representatives from the four campuses to join the TOCAR Collaborative (summer and Fall 2001) 
2. Acquired administrative sanction and resources for TOCAR on all four campuses (Fall 2001)
3. Developed a TOCAR chapter on each campus (Fall 2001)
4. Scheduled Level 1 anti-racism trainings for the TOCAR Collaborative and for each campus (Fall 2001)
5. Created TOCAR webpage for dissemination of information related to TOCAR activities (Minutes of TOCAR Collaborative meetings can be found at www.mnstate.edu/mhdrights) (Fall 2001)
6. Held monthly meetings of the TOCAR Collaborative (Fall 2001 to present)
7. Held monthly TOCAR chapter meetings on each campus (Fall 2001 to present)
8. Contributed to planning discussions of the Multicultural Issues Committee of the Inter-Faculty Organization (IFO) of the Minnesota State University System regarding TOCAR-type anti-racism initiatives on the 7 state university campuses (December 2001- present)
9. Gained IFO support for TOCAR-type initiatives (March 2002)
10. Invited the Fargo-Moorhead YWCA to join the TOCAR Collaborative.  YWCA accepted and began attending Collaborative meetings in September 2002
11. Contributed to planning discussions with Paul Boswell from NDSU and the North Dakota University System (NDUS) Diversity Council about a TOCAR-type initiative for the North Dakota University System (Summer 2002)

Implementation Phase I: Level 1 anti-racism trainings

1. Held anti-racism training for TOCAR Collaborative, November 15-16, 2001 at NDSU Alumni Center.  45 participants including faculty, staff, and student from all four campuses
2. Held a Level 1 anti-racism training on each campus:
• January 31-February 1, 2002 at MSUM;
• February 7-8, 2002 at Concordia;
• February 28-March 1, 2002 at NTC. (This training was co-sponsored by Communities Working to Dismantle Racism with $1195.10 in Bremer funds contributed by CWDR);
• April 4-5, 2002 at NDSU

Implementation Phase II: Team and Assessment Tool Development 

1. Created TOCAR Collaborative Institutional Assessment Committee to develop institutional assessment tools (Spring 2002).  Kay Schneider, Concordia, committee chair
2. Held monthly meetings of institutional assessment committee (Spring 2002 to present)
3. Developed a multicultural, anti-racist team on each campus.  Each team has a campus-specific structure (Spring 2002)
4. Concordia’s anti-racism team commissioned by President Thomas Thompson (April 2002); NDSU’s antiracism team commissioned by President Chapman (October 2002);  MSUM’s antiracism team commissioned by President Barden (October 2002)
5. Institutional Assessment Committee is currently finishing an institutional assessment tool to be distributed to faculty and staff on each campus during the Spring 2003 semester
6. Institutional Assessment Committee is currently drafting an institutional assessment tool to be distributed to students on each campus during the Spring 2003 semester

Implementation Phase III: Institutional Assessment – This phase will be implemented during the Spring 2003 semester.

Implementation Phase IV: Advanced Team Training

Held Level 2 institutional racism training for all four campus anti-racism teams and the anti-racism team of the Fargo-Moorhead YWCA (June 13-15, 2002 at MSUM)

In addition to the activities listed above, members of the TOCAR Collaborative have also engaged in the following TOCAR-related activities:

• Presentation to Moorhead Rotary Club by Claudia Simon, NTC, and Amy Phillips, MSUM (Fall 2001)
• Interview to North Dakota Public Radio by Kara Stack, NDSU, Kay Schneider, Concordia, Phyllis May-Machunda, MSUM, and Ted Guerrero, NTC (Fall 2001)
• Interview with local TV station by Claudia Simon, NTC, and Kay Schneider, Concordia  (Fall 2001)
• Phone conversation between Equity Officer at St. Cloud State and Phyllis May-Machunda and Amy Phillips, MSUM, about how to get a TOCAR type initiative started at St. Cloud State (Fall 2001)
• Presentation to the annual meeting of the Minnesota Conference on Social Work Education by Amy Phillips and Phyllis May-Machunda, MSUM (Fall 2001)
• Presentation to “People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions” national conference by Phyllis May-Machunda and Amy Phillips, MSUM  in Lincoln, NE (Fall 2001)
• Presentation to Human Rights conference at NDSU by Amy Phillips and Phyllis May-Machunda (Fall 2001)
• Presentation to College of Education and Human Services Faculty at MSUM by Phyllis May-Machunda and Amy Phillips (Spring 2002)
• Presentation to “National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education” in New Orleans by Phyllis May-Machunda and Amy Phillips, MSUM (Spring 2002)
• Presentation to regional meeting of the National Alliance for Bridging Race and Ethnicity in Minneapolis by Phyllis May-Machunda and Amy Phillips , MSUM (Spring 2002)
• Discussion between Jim Grijvala, UND Law School and Phyllis May-Machunda, MSUM about how to get a TOCAR type initiative started (Spring 2002)
• Co-sponsored Human Rights Summit and 2 additional community forums  to discuss Human Rights and Antiracism in Education and Business. These events were co-sponsored with the Moorhead Human Rights Commission, Fargo Human Relations Commission, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation, Chamber of Commerce of Fargo-Moorhead, Cultural Diversity Resources, the Moorhead Justice Circle, and the Fargo and Moorhead Public School Districts, and Minnesota State University Moorhead (Spring 2002).
• Presentation to Fargo Rotary Club by Larry Peterson, NDSU and Amy Phillips, MSUM  (Fall 2002)
• Presentation to Minnesota State University Student Association by Amy Phillips, MSUM and Phyllis May-Machunda, MSUM (Fall 2002)
• Presentations to campus student senates, classes, and other campus events (ongoing)
• Presentation at President's In-Service for faculty, "Enlarging the Campus Community" at MSUM by Phyllis May-Machunda (Fall 2002)
• TOCAR co-sponsored presentation by national speaker Tim Wise as organized by MSUM Campus Affairs (Fall 2002).

MSUM TOCAR Antiracism Team Steering Committee Members

Abner Arauza, staff, Multicultural Affairs
Rose Bakke, staff, Admissions and Records
Benjamine Blair, administrator, Human Resources
Tracy Clark, faculty, Social Work
David Crockett, administrator, Administrative Affairs
Yoke-Sim Gunaratne, community member, Cultural Diversity Resources 
Peter Hartje, student, Political Science
Ronald Jeppson, administrator,  Social & Natural Sciences
Veronica Michael, staff, Admissions
Brian Oxton, staff, Physical Plant
Linda Palmer, student, Criminal Justice/Sociology
Judith Peterson, staff, Alumni Foundation
Amy Phillips, faculty, Social Work
Steve Pletta, contractor, Sodexho
Mary Richardson, student, Elementary Education
Aya Reid, student, Pre-Pharmacy
Donna Rosh, faculty, Anthropology/Earth Sciences 
Ryan Sylvester, graduate student, Political Science and staff, Residence Halls
Charane Wilson, student, English 
Phyllis May-Machunda, faculty, Humanities & Multicultural Studies,

Team Co-Chair

Warren Wiese, administrator, Student Affairs, Team Co-chair

     Concordia, NDSU, and Northwest Tech reports and lists of campus anti-racism team membership follows.

 Concordia College

Moorhead, MN

TOCAR First-Year Activities

October 25, 2001 - October 31, 2002

Submitted by Joy Lintelman, Concordia College

     Activities on Concordia’s campus have served to raise awareness of institutional racism at all levels of the college, to encourage conversation about these issues, and to take actions that will address the problems of racism on our campus.

In the 2001-2002 Academic Year:

§         Principia training—all first-year students taking this required course in “Introduction to the Liberal Arts” participated in a 1Ω day anti-racism training sponsored by MCARI

§         Approximately 40 faculty, students, and staff attended 2 or 2Ω day MCARI anti-racism trainings over the course of the year

§         Concern for creating a diverse campus added to the college’s Strategic Plan

§         TOCAR team was developed and officially sanctioned by the president of the college in April 2002

§         Several faculty led four brown-bag luncheon discussions during Spring semester 2002 on “teaching against racism”

§         14 members of our campus TOCAR attended the Human Rights Summit at Trinity Lutheran in April 2002

Summer 2002:

§         12 members of our TEAM attended Level II MCARI anti-racism training in June 2002

§         8 faculty participated in a summer workshop on “Teaching Against Racism”

§         12 faculty/staff members attended a workshop at White Earth Reservation in July 2002

§         The TOCAR Team met twice over the summer to plan activities and tasks for the coming academic year

Fall 2002:

§         Team is meeting monthly, charged with developing recommendations for working toward making Concordia an anti-racist institution, to be presented to the campus and campus governing bodies at the end of this academic year

§         Team members are working on a Concordia version of a “Wall of History” outlining incidents of racism and resistance in college’s history

§         Subcommittees have been formed on the following issues, meeting weekly or bi-weekly: 

1.      administrative/Staff hiring of persons of color

2.      developing an anti-racist curriculum

3.      locating/recruiting community partners

4.      recruitment and retention of students of color

5.      faculty hiring

6.      teach-in day (an annual campus event as a form of consultation on policy direction allowing an enlarged group of community partners to participate who may not be able to join TOCAR on a regular monthly meeting basis)

§         Issue of diversity at Concordia is being addressed in accreditation process, it was also included as a central topic of discussion at the college’s annual assessment banquet

§         Principia faculty have developed a week-long anti-racism training for first-year students to be conducted in November 2002 (includes a simulation, a film and discussion, a campus community time, a panel of community minority speakers, readings, and class discussion)

§         TOCAR campus group is meeting regularly to discuss continuing work on campus.

§         A survey is being developed to send to alums and former students of color regarding their experiences at the college

The Concordia TOCAR Anti-Racism Team Members are:

Joy Lintelman (faculty), co-chair
Harvey Stalwick (faculty), co-chair
Alexis Bylander (student)
Bob Hauff (staff), Bryan Luther (faculty)
Carmen Cornog (staff)
Chelle Lyons Hanson (staff)
Debbie Graham (staff)
Dawn Tommerdahl (faculty)
Gary Totten (faculty), Jane Hewitt (faculty)
Jim Postema (administration)
Johnathan Judd (administration)
Jonathan Steinwand (faculty)
Kay Schneider (administration)
Leigh Wakefield (faculty)
Linda Johnson (faculty)
Michelle Stevier (faculty)
Eric Olofson (staff)
Tom Kley (staff)
Tracey Moorhead (administration)

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND

TOCAR First Year Activities

October 25, 2001 - October 31, 2002

Submitted by Sandy Holbrook, NDSU

Anti-Racism Activities

November 15^th & 16^th, 2001            Phase I -  Level 1 anti-racism training

11 NDSU people participated.

Collaborative Training with Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Northwest Technical College

  April 4^th & 5^th, 2002                         NDSU Phase I - Level 1 anti-racism training

34 NDSU participants including the President and several other major administrators as well as faculty, staff and students

  June 10^th, 2002                                  NDSU Anti-Racism Team Orientation

  June 13^th-15^th, 2002                          Phase II - Level 2 team training

12 of 15 NDSU anti-racism team members participated in the Level 2 training] along with team members from Concordia College, Minnesota State University – Moorhead, Northwest Technical College, and YWCA of Fargo

  July 23^rd, 2002                                  Team Meeting

  August 30^th, 2002                             Team Meeting

  September 13^th, 2002                       Team Meeting

  September 27^th, 2002                       Team Meeting

  October 11^th, 2002                           Team Meeting

     Team accomplishments to date are the development of a covenant agreement for the team including a mission and purpose statement as well as goals for the coming year; a preliminary SWOT analysis for NDSU addressing Power1, Power 2 and Power 3; preliminary discussion of training materials/options for use in a variety of settings on campus; and initial work on NDSU history relating to racism.

  October 17, 2002                             Commissioning of the anti-racism team during the
President’s State of the University address

 

  October 26^th, 2002                          Level 1 anti-racism training
 Sponsored by YWCA [? NDSU participants]

Description of team

            The NDSU anti-racism team is composed of 15 members and includes faculty, staff, students and administrators.  There are 7 women and 8 men; the group includes 5 people of color and 10 white people.  A list of the team members and their institutional roles follows:               

Name                           Institutional Affiliation                                                          Address

Josh Boschee                student                                                              242 Johnson Hall

Paul Boswell                 Director, Multicultural Student Services              302Ceres Hall

Tom Carlson                 Assistant Professor, Child Dev./Family Sci.        283 EML

Paul Gleye                    Chair/Prof., Architecture/Landscape Arch.        106 Architecture

Sandra Holbrook           Director, Equal Opportunity                               202 Old Main

Norma Kiser-Larson     Assistant Professor, Nursing                             222C Sudro

Jennifer Krueger           Assistant Director, Residence Life                    101 Aux. Ent.

William Nganje             Assistant Professor, Agribus./Applied Econ        221D Morrill

Charles Okigbo             Professor, Communication                                321C Minard

Laura Oster-Aaland      Director, Orientation and Student Success         118 Ceres Hall

Larry Peterson              Chair/Professor, History                                  412 Minard Hall

Brandon Richardson      student                                                           2814 7th Ave. N. 
                                                                                                         Fargo 58102

Kelly Stadick                student                                                           201C Seim Hall

Kara Stack                   Assistant Director, Campus Programs             360E Mem. Union

Jaclynn Davis Wallette  Coordinator, Native Americans                       222M Sudro Hall
                                    in Pharmacy Prgm.

Institutional structure

            The NDSU anti-racism team is officially recognized entity, sanctioned by the University President, and affiliated with the President’s Diversity Council.   To recognize the relationship between the anti-racism team and the Diversity Council, six of the Diversity Council members are also members of the anti-racism team. 

Impact

            At this stage of our work there is not much measurable impact but the following are positive indicators of the influence the TOCAR effort has had on our campus in the first year of our work:

§         The President has increased the graduate assistantship in the Equal Opportunity Office from ∫ time to Ω time to provide support for the team’s work.  (The EO Director is a member of both the Diversity Council and the anti-racism team.)

§         Over 40 NDSU staff, faculty, administrators and students have gone through the Level 1 training.  Because these 40 people represent many different offices on campus, the awareness of TOCAR has grown considerably over the year.

§         The Provost has committed resources to provide additional Level 1 training in the coming year.

§         There is an increased commitment to training about racism, especially for student leaders and residents in the residence halls.

§         There is a new awareness of institutional racism among administrators who have completed the Level 1 training.

§         The North Dakota University System is exploring the possibility of offering Level 1 training for the 11 institutions in the System (this is not specifically an NDSU impact but a Collaborative impact!).

NORTHWEST TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Moorhead, Minnesota

TOCAR First-Year Activities

 October 25, 2001 - October 31, 2002

Submitted by Claudia Simon, NTC

The Northwest Technical College TOCAR group has engaged in the following activities during the first year of the TOCAR grant:

1.      Development of a TOCAR anti-racism team

2.      Monthly team meetings on campus

3.      Participation in monthly TOCAR Collaborative meetings

4.      Participation in the June, 2002 Level 2 anti-racism training with the other campuses and the YWCA

5.      Establishment of a Diversity Committee within the NTC Student Senate

6.      Engaged in several public relations/media activities to promote TOCAR

7.      Participation in the "Cultivate Our Culture" community event as sponsored by Cultural Diversity Resources of Fargo-Moorhead State University

8.      Hosted brown bag lunches and guest speakers for discussions related to diversity and anti-racism

9.      Hosted a student forum for students interested in TOCAR

The impact of these activities has been to raise campus awareness about anti-racism efforts and to provide general education on institutional racism and anti-racism.

Members of the Northwest Technical College anti-racism team are:

Claudia Simon                  Staff
Tom Dubbels                   Faculty/Counselor
Ted Guerrero                   Staff
Desiree Capson-Koenig   Staff
Roderick McCall              Student/Student Senate
Melissa Anderson             Student
Shannon Ehlers                 Student