{"id":9865,"date":"2010-11-01T02:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2017-05-17T22:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:07:35","slug":"is-the-design-for-our-cultural-programs-ethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9865","title":{"rendered":"Is the Design for Our Cultural Programs Ethical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/ujcc20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is the Design for Our Cultural Programs Ethical?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.naspa.org\/jcc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal of College and Character<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/ujcc20\/11\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volume 11, Issue 4 (November 2010)<\/a><br \/>\n3 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2202\/1940-1639.1743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.2202\/1940-1639.1743<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/cla\/ethnic_studies\/larry-d-roper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry D. Roper<\/a><\/strong>, Vice Provost for Student Affairs<br \/>\n<em>Oregon State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimberly McAloney<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Oregon State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barack Obama<\/a>, the first acknowledged biracial President of the United States, we have noticed an increase in conversation regarding race and the status of racial issues. While the election and the subsequent interest in race do not provide answers to the challenges facing colleges and universities, one of the recurring questions generated in the conversation about the racial identity of our President, \u201cIs Barack Obama Black?,\u201d does provide the opportunity to address a significant issue facing our campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Questions regarding the racial identity of and the ethnic\/racial community with which biracial and multiracial people should identify arise daily in the lives of a growing number of college students. On our campuses we have offices and cultural centers designed to serve and meet the needs of groups that have been historically underrepresented and underserved in U.S. higher education. While the creation of these centers and programs has been crucial in addressing the history of discrimination among collegiate institutions, as well as increasing opportunities for success of underrepresented racial groups, we are at a place where we need to enter uncomfortable territory and have serious conversation about the future of such centers and programs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase\u00a0the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.2202\/1940-1639.1743?needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[4310,4309,4307,4308],"class_list":["post-9865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-journal-of-college-and-character","tag-kimberly-mcaloney","tag-larry-d-roper","tag-larry-roper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53955,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/53955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}