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Assessment Tools:

• Equity Scorecard assessment tool
  http://www.uwsa.edu/oadd/equity/index.htm

Developed by Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon at the Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California, the Equity Scorecard, is designed to foster institutional change in higher education. It seeks to foster educational excellence through closing the achievement gap for historically underrepresented students.

• Diversity Scorecard assessment tool
  http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CUE/projects/ds/diversityscorecard.html

The full name of this project, which is funded by the James Irvine Foundation, is "Designing and Implementing a Diversity Scorecard to Improve Institutional Effectiveness for Under served Minority Students." This project is a partnership of post-secondary institutions in California which seeks to establish indicators and scales that enable decision-makers and others to assess institutional effectiveness and progress on improving access, retention, institutional receptivity, and excellence for under served minority group students. The Stats at a Glance page includes useful national data on diversity among K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students and also among faculty.

Laws:

• Affirmative Action and the Law
  http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/affirmat.htm
  
  
• Laws & Legislation
  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/diversityaccess/links.html

Research Guides:

• Research Guide on Workplace Diversity
  http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/subjectGuides/workplaceDiversity.html
  

• Central Michigan University Libraries' Diversity Resources Project
  http://www.lib.cmich.edu/departments/reference/diversity/links.htm
  

• American Library Association Office for Diversity
  http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/index.cfm

 

Diversity Scholarships:

• Spectrum
  http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/spectrum/spectrum.cfm
  
  Established in 1997 by the American Library Association, the Spectrum Scholarship Program provides a one-year $5,000 scholarship and over $1,500 in professional development opportunities to eligible students planning to attend an ALA-accredited graduate program in library and information studies or an ALA-recognized NCATE School Library Media program.

Conferences:

• Diversity Web
  http://www.diversityweb.org/index.cfm
  
  The Diversity Web, a project of Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is devoted to connecting, amplifying and advancing campus diversity work throughout postsecondary education. As part of this effort, it maintains a web page with links to upcoming conferences and recent papers on diversity related issues.

• Diversity Conferences
  http://www.diversityweb.org/diversity_postings/conferences_and_papers/conferences.cfm
  
  Maintained by UC Irvine’s Human Resources department, this page provides a list of diversity-related conferences and workshops offered throughout the nation. The conferences are listed alphabetically. In some instances, the conference dates may have passed but are still listed. If the conference is annual or biennial; the department claims that new dates will be posted as soon as they are available.
  

Earth Calendar:

• Earth Calendar
  http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php
  
  The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. For the purpose of this web site a "holiday" is any day that recognizes a cultural event.