Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Publication Title

Initiatives

Volume

54

Issue

1

Pages

39-46

Abstract

Old Dominion University, a state university in Norfolk, Virginia, enrolling approximately 16,000 students, has successfully established the goal of achieving diversity in what is taught, who does the teaching, and who is being taught. Since 1986, faculty have had to include the perspectives, contributions, and concerns of women, minorities, and/or non-Western cultures1 in courses that fulfill general education requirements. The university's mission statement and its strategic goals emphasize curriculum transformation and the attraction of more women and male minorities into the faculty and student body. In its 1989 report, the Virginia Commission on the University of the 21st Century stated that students must experience for themselves the diversity and richness of human experience, a diversity rooted in culture but also in gender and race. A coherent framework now exists for making more rapid progress toward the goals long advocated by affirmative action directors and by programs in women's studies, minority studies, third world studies, and Asian studies.

Original Publication Citation

Bazin, N. T. (1991). Transforming the curriculum, the mission statement, the strategic goals: A success story. Initiatives 54(1), 39-46.

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