SEAHO Report - Spring 2017 - 9
SEAHO News
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Update
SEAHO DEI Dives into SEAHO History!
Wow, what a year! I'm still riding a high of smiling
satisfaction from our shared time together in Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee certainly
looked to infuse the "From Good to Great®" mantra as
an altitude and attitude throughout its preparation and
engagement of the SEAHO Conference. DEI dove into
SEAHO History with quite a number of firsts for our
regional conference and had the "#SEAHOAllYear" hard
work and heart work of its committee members highlighted
with recognition and highly revered awards.
One of the most monumental strides was the preparation
and implementation for the first ever Pre-Conference
Institute. It was a collaborative effort of those working
with the DEI Committee and the Programming Committee.
With over 60 delegates from nearly 10 member institutions
registered to be the first cohort of this pre-conference,
the intentional space was kicked off with a phenomenal
keynote speech and opening presentation by Calvin
Mosley, Director of University Housing at the University of
Florida. Calvin unselfishly shared his 16 years of wisdom
and experience to talk about the power and purpose to
"Finding Our Why" in this work that we do and pour so
much of ourselves in to. The remaining body of the preconference consisted of a series of short sessions based
between the topics of "Theory to Practice: A Real Example
for Multicultural Competence" (by Tierza Watts of UNC
Charlotte and Byron Green of UNC Chapel Hill) and early
exposure and exercising of content to one of SEAHO's
slated live streamed sessions, "So You Wanna Be an Ally?
How to Make Allyship Active" (by Ashley Gaddy of
Virginia Commonwealth University and Demarcus Merritt
of University of North Carolina Greensboro). Participants
shared informal and formal feedback of their appreciation
for the genuine and much needed space to be carved out for
knowledge base to be shared and genuine, actual practice of
best practices presented throughout the pre-conference!
From the pre-con, DEI continued to make its mark
throughout the SEAHO conference with the following:
The selection of over six diversity and inclusion related
presentations
q Hosting of the highly anticipated Minority Mixer
q Partnering with Local Arrangements Team and
University Laundry to host the SEAHO Serves at the
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Chattanooga Area Food Bank to work to improve and
dialogue around the various food insecurities
q Hosting the first ever SEAHO Brave Space Freeform
Session to dialogue around areas of social justice from
our conference, our respective campuses, and general
societies
q Having over 45 delegates present to communicate
interest in serving on the DEI Committee; which is the
largest turnout in the committee's history
I am very thankful for the blessed and humbling honor
to be presented with this year's SEAHO PEACE Award. I
still stand in awe of the overwhelming joy from streaming
support and heart touching words gifted from colleagues
throughout our region and particularly those from those I
have the opportunity to grow forward with on a daily basis
at VCU. Again, I thank all of you.
I'd be remised if I did not mention and re-share the
amazing news for two colleagues and two of my committee
co-chairs, Gabe Solomon of Florida State University and
Demarcus Merritt of UNC Greensboro. The fruits of the
labor sprung into full harvest when their "Diversity SelfHealth Check-Up: You're Not Alone" presentation was
selected as SEAHO's BEST of Program! I was nearly
brought to tears when I heard you all's name called;
particularly because I am fully aware of how much you all
invested over the past year of hard work and continuous
role model research. Your roles as award winning SEAHO
Diversity Doctors have proven to really leave an imprint on
our region. I'm so proud of you all! I know it will have an
equivalent or even greater impact when you all represent
our region and the DEI Committee at the ACUHO-I Annual
Composition & Exposition in Providence, Rhode Island
this summer.
As we reach forward and continue to give more and
more of our authentic selves to the work that we do and to
our globally stretching communities, let's be sure to try to
extend the greatness that SEAHO exists as and thread it
into the fabric our various campuses and communities. It is
imperative that we make the time and space to continue the
dialogue as we reach for resolutions for a more inclusive
state of being. As we look around to see who is and who is
not at the table, let's ponder upon the perspective of how
the table can be removed.
Ashley Gaddy,
Chair of SEAHO Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee
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