TOCAR Steering Team Minutes
Friday, December 5, 2003
CMU 203
Present: Ferman Woodberry, Steve
Pletta, Judy Peterson, Brian Oxton, Tracy Clark, Amy Phillips, Ron
Jeppson, Abner Arauza, Donna Rosh, Phyllis May-Machunda, Anita
Bender
Absent: Wade Swenson, Warren Wiese,
Yoke-Sim Gunaratne, Linda Palmer, Kim Gillette, Veronica Michael,
Rose Bakke, David Crockett
I.
Unit Reports:
Academics Unit
– Approximately 17 people attended the last meeting in
November. The group worked at clarifying roles of team members
and facilitators, setting ground rules, and debriefing the last
meeting. At the next meeting, Thurs. 9-11AM, the group will be
using the various handouts to discuss P1, P2 and P3 at the various
institutional levels at MSUM.
Campus Services
Unit – Steve reported that the groups has been working on
recruiting community members. He has emailed the Fargo Moorhead
Human Resources Association asking to make a presentation at one
of their regular luncheons. We are waiting to hear from them. An
all-day format, for the level I training, makes it difficult to
recruit participants from the areas represented by Campus
Services. Les Bakke has created a proposal for a possible
training format that divides it over several days for shorter
periods of time. This format would require training MSUM folks to
be trainers. Campus services will bring this proposal to the next
Steering Team meeting.
Administration
and Alumni Unit – This unit has its last meeting a couple of
weeks ago. Approximately six people attended. This meting was
more of an informational meeting to recruit participants for the
Unit. It was a good discussion and the group decided to watch
“Race: The Power of an Illusion” at the next meeting. There are
several community people that are interested in being on the team:
Sarah Kjos and Claudia Simon. Judy and Veronica will follow-up
with phone calls to them.
Student Support
Unit – Anita reported that Linda Palmer emailed and said that
she and Kim Gillette met to talk about recruitment for the Unit.
II.
Survey: Administration of the Student Survey is
winding down. Approximately 40 classes and over 500 students have
been surveyed so far. Ron Jeppson reported that out of all of the
students surveyed, only one has approached him to complain. There
have not been many students of color who have taken the survey so
Abner Arauza, Gus Claymore, and Ferman Woodberry will be
administering it to the various Students of Color organizations.
Ron Jeppson suggested that a reminder through “Dragonews” be sent
out. Phyllis and Deb will follow-up with sending out a reminder
through both the campus list serve and “dragonews.”
Approximately 10
Departmental multicultural Histories have been received so far.
Phyllis is still waiting for word from MNSCU concerning how
students’ names can be collected before she resends the request
for Multicultural Histories out to the departments.
III.
Level III Training: Since we have more room, anyone
from the Unit teams who has attended at Level II training is
welcome to participate in the Level III training on Jan. 29-31 and
Feb. 5-7.
IV.
Caucusing: The team divided into white caucus and
people of color caucus to discuss how they see P2 (white
privilege) playing out at the various levels of the institution
and then reassembled to share the caucus discussions. Since there
was so much more to talk about, it was decided that both the white
folks and people of color should caucus one more time before the
next Steering Team Meeting.
V.
Announcements:
There will be a
two-day Cross Cultural Awareness Seminar Lillian Roybal Rose on
January 13 and 14. The cost is $75 to participate. If you are
interested in participating, please contact ________.
There will also
be a free SEED Summit with Lillian Roybal Rose on January 14th,
6-9pm in the CMU Ballroom E/F. If you are interested in
participating, please contact _________________.
Martin Luther
King Celebration, January 15, 7:30pm, MSUM Gaede Theater. MSUM
will be honoring Mr. Joe Rogers, Colorado’s former Lt. Governor,
and will present The Dream Alive Program, an acclaimed dedication
to the memory and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and leaders of
the Civil Rights Movement.
Next Meeting, January 16th,
11:30am-1:30pm, CMU 203
Submitted by,
Anita Bender
