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Op-Ed: How the University of Kentucky Is
14 Beating the Odds of the Teacher Shortage
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Adaptive College Sports Bring Athletes
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with Disabilities off the Sidelines Nursing Schools Teach Advocacy
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Navigating Names: Advocates Push
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California Grant Expands Health Professions
SIU System Campus Climate Surveys Yield Access for Underrepresented Students 42
24 Greater DEI Transparency and Innovation
By Sheila Caldwell, EdD,
By Erik Cliburn
and Sookyung Suh, PhD Cultural Competence, Bilingual Speakers
Key Components of Nursing Program
By Erik Cliburn
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Study Tracks Diversity Outcomes
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DEI Strategies for 2023:
Commit, Convene, Communicate for Physician Assistant Programs
By Lisa O’Malley
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By Janet Edwards and Lisa O’Malley
New Mapping Tool Identifies
Nation’s Pharmacy Deserts
By Erik Cliburn
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Nursing Schools Share Success
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engineering, and mathematics (STEM) strongest arguments for their campus based in a residence hall. The project
in higher education. programs as being the most promising for will also include internship programs
Howard Hughes Medical Institute successful change and community impact. for STEM students.
(HHMI), a nonprofit research and These institutions include Loyola In addition to these projects,
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mission to advance the discovery State University, University at Albany will match the HHMI grant and
and sharing of scientific knowledge, (UAlbany), University of Maryland further expand an existing program
awarded the funding. Eastern Shore (UMES), University led by the Center of Achievement,
HHMI’s Driving Change five-year of Montana (UM), and the University Retention and Student Success
grants will address longstanding of Virginia. (CARSS). CARSS, which provides free
barriers of institutional racism and a UM will use the grant funds to structured tutoring and is proven to
lack of diversity in STEM and support become a national model for preparing, have a positive impact on students from
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WATCH: ‘My So-Called
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In 2018, students at a high school in
Sacramento, Calif., began writing a
Broadway-style musical called “Ranked”
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parents will go to secure a spot at an
elite university. Several months later,
the Varsity Blues scandal would make
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around the country reached out to stage
READ: ‘Transforming their own productions of “Ranked.”
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg record the stories of how musical
for Equity and Justice’ theater students from three racially diverse high schools across the U.S. handle
Drawing on more than 25 years staging a production on the pressures of applying to college — while they
of research into Hispanic-Serving themselves navigate the competitive admissions process.
Institutions (HSIs), the book Streaming on HBO Max
“Transforming Hispanic-Serving
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a framework for how HSIs can advance
racial equity, social justice, and collective LISTEN: ‘UnCommon Law’
liberation on their campuses. Author Gina As the U.S. Supreme Court determines
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infrastructure, and more.— to explain at the University of North Carolina and former president of the NAACP’s
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NEW DIRECTIONS
ARKANSAS MARYLAND Jonathan Lee
Charles Robinson, Yolanda Wilson, Walton, PhD,
PhD, is the first PhD, is the first has been named
African American to African American president of
be named chancellor to be appointed Princeton
of the University president of Theological
of Arkansas, the College of Seminary. Walton
Fayetteville. Southern Maryland previously served as dean of the
Robinson previously served in La Plata. Wilson previously School of Divinity at Wake Forest
as interim chancellor of the served as vice president of University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
university. instruction at Wilkes Community
College in Wilkesboro, N.C. NORTH CAROLINA
CALIFORNIA Gary G. Bennett,
Meera Komarraju, MASSACHUSETTS PhD, has been
PhD, has been Sally Kornbluth, named dean of
appointed provost PhD, is the first Trinity College of
and vice president woman to be Arts & Sciences at
for academic affairs named president of Duke University
at California State the Massachusetts in Durham.
University, Northridge. Komarraju Institute of Bennett was vice provost for
was provost and vice chancellor Technology in undergraduate education and
for academic affairs at Southern Cambridge. Kornbluth was professor of psychology and
Illinois University Carbondale. provost and the Jo Rae Wright neuroscience, global health, and
University Professor of Biology at medicine at the university.
Cynthia Teniente- Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Matson, EdD, is OHIO
the first Latinx Sunil Kumar, PhD, Sarah Sherer,
woman to be has been named MS, has been
named president president of Tufts appointed senior
of San José State University in associate vice
University. Teniente- Medford. Kumar president and
Matson previously served previously served chief human
as president of Texas A&M as provost and resources officer
University-San Antonio. senior vice president for academic at The Ohio State University
affairs at Johns Hopkins University Wexner Medical Center in
Wendi Williams, in Baltimore, Md. Columbus. Sherer previously
PhD, has been served as chief human resources
named provost NEW JERSEY officer for the University of Utah
and senior vice David E. Jones, PhD, has been Health, Hospitals & Clinics in Salt
president at appointed inaugural chief Lake City.
Fielding Graduate diversity officer at the New
University in Santa Jersey Institute of Technology in
Barbara. Williams was dean Newark. Jones was chief diversity
of the Mills College School officer at William Paterson
of Education at Northeastern University in Wayne.
University in Oakland.
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BRINGS OUTCOMES
The Clemson University Men of Color National Summit
is dedicated to showing young African American and
Hispanic men that graduation from high school and
college is closer than they think.
The summit offers these young men a chance to learn —
from business owners, community leaders, accomplished
athletes and academic mentors — that education is the
key to success at every level and that the opportunity gap
will shrink as the goals they set grow.
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HISPANIC HEALTH POLICY SUMMIT BUSINESS SCHOOL DIVERSITY, EQUITY,
FEB National Association of Hispanic Nurses
MAR INCLUSION COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCE
9 8
• In-Person Business School Diversity, Equity,
• Washington, D.C. and Inclusion Collaborative
• nahnnet.org/Summit • In-Person
• Knoxville, Tenn.
• busdeic.org/2023-conference
BLACK MEN IN WHITE COATS YOUTH SUMMIT
FEB University of North Texas Health Science
Center at Fort Worth EQUITY & DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
18 • In-Person MAR University of North Texas Denton
23
• Fort Worth, Texas • Hybrid
• unthsc.edu/bmwc • edc.unt.edu
ACAD ANNUAL MEETING
FEB American Conference of Academic Deans CLEMSON UNIVERSITY MEN OF COLOR
MAR
22 • In-Person
• Tampa, Fla.
• acad.org
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NATIONAL SUMMIT
Clemson University
• In-Person
• Greenville, S.C.
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Pennsylvania State University Smeal College
VETERAN RECRUITING CONFERENCE
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• University Park, Pa.
FEB The Value of a Veteran • smeal.psu.edu/startconference
28
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LGBTQ+ HEALTH EQUITY SUMMIT
MAR
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30 • Virtual
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at insightintodiversity.com/calendarMONTHLY OBSERVANCE
BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
The Role of Higher Education in Black Activism By Erik Cliburn
Throughout its history, higher Thurgood Marshall, and Congressman institutions must fully incorporate anti-
education in the U.S. has served as John Lewis. racist policies, ideals, and objectives into
both an institutional oppressor of These individuals and their their operations, Welbeck says.
Black Americans and as a stronghold impact, along with many like them, “It begins by making anti-racism
for resistance against racism and demonstrate the important role that more than just a branding term
discrimination in society. In honor colleges and universities can play in and something that is actually
of this year’s Black History Month shaping the activists and thought an overarching principle of the
theme, “Black Resistance,” designated leaders of the future, says Timothy university,” he says.
by the Association for the Study of Welbeck, JD, director of the Center for To meet the needs of student and
African American Life and History Anti-Racism and assistant professor faculty activists seeking to promote anti-
(ASALH), INSIGHT examines
the role that higher education has
played in Black activism and how
academia can support anti-racism by
empowering students and faculty.
Although Black History Month was
ANTI-RACISM ROAD MAP
As part of its “Living While Black on Campus” road map,
federally designated in 1986, similar
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shares six ways
weekly and monthly celebrations had for student activists to promote anti-racism policies on
already existed for more than 50 years. their campuses:
In the 1960s, many higher education
institutions, especially historically • Identify and connect with allies
• Obtain/demand current policies
Black colleges and universities
• Understand and identify advocacy targets
(HBCUs), began recognizing • Work with allies to finalize list of demands
Black History Month with campus • Present demands to advocacy targets
observances. These celebrations served • Keep the pressure on
as a way for Black educators to lionize
people and narratives that advanced Download the ACLU’s full road map here:
bit.ly/3Pwg6Ql
ideals of equality and social justice,
according to the ASALH.
During the civil rights era,
HBCUs served as centers for in the department of Africology and racist policy, colleges and universities
Black resistance to segregation and African American Studies at Temple must be willing to create safe spaces
disenfranchisement. For example, University, and a civil rights attorney. for marginalized groups to share their
the famous 1960 Greensboro lunch “Institutions of higher learning are experiences, express their concerns, and
counter sit-ins were organized by supposed to be a beacon of knowledge advocate for change, says Welbeck.
four North Carolina A&T University and insight, so they should be a home “One thing these institutions should
students. Eight years later, South for activism, progressive thought, and do is begin with understanding what
Carolina State University, an HBCU, the equitable treatment of people,” Black liberation is, what that fight looks
served as the site of a racial segregation says Welbeck. “They should be more like today, and make an active effort not
protest, during which police killed than a place for theoretical intellectual to suppress those who are pushing for
three Black student protestors and exercise and discourse, but be a space liberation in a contemporary sense,” he
injured 28 others. HBCUs have also that is working toward the liberation says. “As that relates to programming,
educated many important pioneers of all people. Throughout history, some there should be an effort to lean into
who fought for equal protection activists who were for Black liberation those who are speaking to do the work
under the law and against segregation found their homes in the academy.” of liberation, amplify their voices,
and disenfranchisement, including To truly empower their students, and connect [them] to the broader
W.E.B. Du Bois, Chief Justice faculty, and staff, higher education historical narrative.”●
insightintodiversity.com 13OP-ED
How the University of Kentucky
Is Beating the Odds of the
Teacher Shortage
By Julian Vasquez Heilig, PhD
The decline in students As someone who has studied the It is difficult for teens to
graduating from teacher education impact that teachers of color make for silence these words ringing in their
programs and the nationwide teacher their students of color, that number ears when they click the boxes on
shortage have become more acute gives me hope, even as we know there college applications. As dean of a
in the past five years. Recruiting is much more to do. college of education, one of my deepest
more students to backfill the teacher The number-one question we are concerns is what we can do to support
pipeline amid a growing shortage hearing right now is “How did you do our students and give them and their
in the U.S. is at the top of nearly every it?” First and foremost, we believe it is families a sense of pride when their
education school’s agenda. because this generation is motivated chosen profession is teaching.
At the height of pandemic closures by the desire for a better world, and I continuously meet students
in 2020, I began weekly strategy our efforts have centered on showing who changed their major. I
meetings on Zoom with the small how this is a career in which you can call them the lucky few — the
recruitment team at my college. make a meaningful difference. ones who end up transferring into
During this critical moment for
education, we became laser focused
on increasing enrollment in our So how did we do it? We are showing the
teacher education programs. As our
nation faced the twin pandemics of
need and connecting students with the
racism and COVID-19, attracting tools to be part of the solution.
more students of color to the teaching
profession was also at the heart
of these efforts. At our scholarship banquet, I met my college. Despite what they
We anticipated incremental success, Meghan Harless, who will graduate in heard in their hometowns and on
and that is what we saw in year one. May as an early childhood educator. TikTok, these are the students who,
But as applications started to pour She always knew she wanted to be a at some point in their college career,
in the following year, we knew we teacher, but it almost did not happen. realized they will not be happy if they
were connecting with significantly Like many promising students who don’t give teaching a try.
more students. At our welcome event aspire to teach, mentors encouraged Teachers are facing enormous
for this fall’s freshman class, we ran her to explore other career options. challenges from many directions —
out of chairs for the first time in For years, I have been hearing outside and inside the classroom.
recent memory. the same story from students at my However, the students making career
Since starting these efforts, college. Teaching was in their hearts, choices today are from a generation
preliminary data shows the number of but someone convinced them to pursue that runs toward challenges. They
incoming aspiring teachers increased other paths. see a need and want to be part
83 percent at the University of They hear: of the solution. They want meaningful
Kentucky, going from 118 incoming careers that contribute to the better
education majors in fall 2019 to “ You are so smart, why don’t you go to world they desire. In this space, teacher
216 in fall 2022. And I was amazed pharmacy school?” education programs have something
when we calculated that our number unique to offer Generation Z.
of freshman students of color “Make your family proud and become a So how did we do it? We are
has increased 275 percent in our doctor or lawyer.” showing the need and connecting
teacher education programs during students with the tools to be part
that same period, rising from 12 to 45. “If you go for your MBA, you will go far.” of the solution.
14 January/February 2023Reaching prospective students where they are is key.
In our college, students, faculty, and staff engage with
high school students often, in multiple ways, from social
media to small-group Zoom chats to in-person visits
on campus. Early career teachers come back to talk to Join us
students in person, candidly sharing the obstacles they AS WE WORK TOWARD
have overcome and their newfound wisdom. Students
Delivering On
tell us they want to see real-life accounts from people
who followed their passion and heart to be a teacher.
To recruit more teachers of color to the profession,
The Promise
colleges of education must put in the work required to
recruit a diverse faculty to mentor students and uplift
communities of color. At the same time our enrollment
began to take off, we launched a groundbreaking
FOR ALL
JUSTICE
PROMOTE
TO
EQUITY
STRUCTURAL
ENHANCING
collaboration with the NAACP, the nation’s largest and
most preeminent civil rights organization. Together,
we developed an education and research initiative to
address racial inequities plaguing the U.S. education
system. Meanwhile, we increased faculty diversity and
connected prospective students with faculty who have
dedicated their professional lives to issues of equity,
especially in the field of education.
As dean of an education school, the pressure to
create solutions to a cacophony of issues is mounting.
When I talk to my peers, it is clear we are all willing
to step up and do the work of bringing more students
into the teacher pipeline. Amid the negative discourse,
we will keep telling the stories of the things that are
working. But what are we doing as a society to keep
teachers in their careers?
Often, the person who warned our students against
entering the profession most loudly was one of their
own teachers. The people they dreamed of growing
up to be like told them not to do it. As a society,
we need to move quickly to confront the issues that
create this sentiment.
Some say meaningful change cannot happen
quickly, but I believe our students are showing that
it can happen remarkably fast with commitment and
innovation. It is imperative we create policies that
will enable those in the teacher pipeline to persist and
succeed. Our students are eager to enter a fulfilling
career. Now is the time to step up as a society to
2023
value the teaching profession so educators do not Annual Conference
leave it too soon, leaving behind silence where there Baltimore MD
could have been the long echo of a legacy for
generations to come.● April 12-15
On Jan. 4, 2023, Julian Vasquez Heilig, PhD, began
a new position as provost and vice president for
academic affairs at Western Michigan University.
He wrote this piece while serving as dean of the
University of Kentucky College of Education.
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insightintodiversity.com 15ADAPTIVE COLLEGE SPORTS BRING ATHLETES
WITH DISABILITIES OFF THE SIDELINES
By Erik Cliburn
Despite the long, difficult, and
winding path he has taken to this
point, Jerome Montgomery Jr. feels a
sense of destiny as a student-athlete at
the University of Michigan (U-M).
Twenty years ago, Montgomery
played varsity basketball in high school.
He had drawn the attention of college
recruiters and hoped to play at the
collegiate level. Those dreams were put
on hold, however, when he sustained a
gunshot wound that severely injured his
spine, leaving him partially paralyzed
for 18 months and resulting in long-
term mobility challenges.
“The very next morning [after my
injury], I was scheduled to practice in
front of some college recruiters,” he
Wheelchair basketball is one of several sports offered in the Adaptive Sports &
says. “Instead, I was in the hospital Fitness program at the University of Michigan.
getting a bullet removed from my back.”
Montgomery regained most of
his mobility through a physical
rehabilitation program. During that team’s head coach, Jessica Wynne, to program and a former collegiate
time, he was reintroduced to sports enroll at U-M and pursue a degree in wheelchair tennis player.
in the form of wheelchair basketball. social work. In the fall semester, at 38 “People with disabilities are really
Before joining the U-M team in 2021, years old, Montgomery began his first no different than their able-bodied
he played with the Detroit Wheelchair year as a student-athlete. counterparts,” Kelley says. “We have a
Pistons for eight years. “Here we are 20 years later, and I’m desire to compete in sports, we want
“When a person first obtains a presented with the same form of an the same opportunities, and we want
disability, it can feel like the end opportunity, playing the sport that I to be afforded the same resources.
of the world. You can’t do all these love for one of the top schools in the It’s crucial for programs like [ASF]
things you take for granted on a country,” Montgomery says. “It’s really to provide those opportunities for
daily basis — whether that’s walking a dream come true.” students to be able to come here and
without assistance or just being able Wheelchair basketball is one of have that collegiate sports experience.”
to flex your fingers. It can be very many activities in the category of Over the past several years, U-M
daunting,” Montgomery says. “When adaptive sports, or parasports, which has built a robust, multifaceted
you’re in that state of mind, and you’re offer opportunities to compete and ASF program that houses several
presented with opportunities to get build camaraderie for people with adaptive sports teams, community
out and still be active, it almost gives disabilities. Due to their profound outreach programs, and recreational
you new life. I’m very thankful for impact on athletes like Montgomery, fitness initiatives. Sports supported
[wheelchair basketball] because it adaptive sports and fitness programs by ASF include wheelchair tennis
helped pull me out of a dark place.” are a vital necessity for any institution and basketball, adaptive track and
Montgomery first joined the that values and promotes diversity, field, and para-equestrian. Like their
university’s wheelchair basketball team equity, and inclusion, says Chris traditional counterparts, the adaptive
as a non-student “community member” Kelley, program coordinator for U-M’s sport teams travel and compete with
in 2021, but was later convinced by the Adaptive Sports & Fitness (ASF) other schools throughout the year,
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diversity.fsu.edu“THERE’S AN UNDERSTANDING
but they are generally much more THAT NOT EVERYBODY WITH Kelley says. “Some people just want
inclusive. For example, wheelchair access to fitness.”
basketball is open to all genders and A PHYSICAL DISABILITY With the growing prominence of
people with and without disabilities. the Paralympics, it is important that
Along with its competitive
NECESSARILY WANTS TO BE colleges and universities continue
teams, the ASF program operates A COMPETITIVE ATHLETE AND to invest in programs to support
the Adaptive Sports & Inclusive individuals with disabilities in
Recreation Initiative (ASIRI) and the TRAIN FOR THE PARALYMPICS. sports and fitness to ensure an even
Rx to Play project. Through ASIRI, distribution of competitive teams
ASF works with public schools in Ann
SOME PEOPLE JUST WANT throughout higher education, says
Arbor to embed adaptive sports into ACCESS TO FITNESS.” Kelley. Ultimately, any advocates
sixth grade physical education. of parasports, including Kelley and
Rx to Play connects ASF staff, such Montgomery, would like to see them
as Kelley, to local medical providers become integrated into the NCAA
and physical therapists to introduce
Chris Kelley and professional leagues.
adaptive sports and fitness to “It’s our time. [Adaptive sports
patients with physical disabilities as are] evolving more and more each
a means to improve mobility. While personalize regimens based on their day,” Montgomery says. “There are
competitive sports are the critical specific abilities. intercollegiate teams, but they’re not as
component of ASF, the program “There’s an understanding that not broad as their potential. I definitely see
also serves as a space for individuals everybody with a physical disability the NCAA catching on and coming up
with disabilities to achieve their necessarily wants to be a competitive with a program or strategy to be more
fitness goals with a trainer who can athlete and train for the Paralympics,” inclusive for people with disabilities.”●
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Advocates Push for Accurate Pronunciation
By Nikki Brahm
It took approximately 20 years in the United States for
Joana (pronounced Sho-ah-na) Dos Santos to hear their name
pronounced correctly. Now, they advance a movement aimed
at correctly pronouncing the names of others who are also
struggling to embrace their self-identity and feel included.
Dos Santos is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
coach and the former chief diversity, equity, and inclusion
officer at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning at the University of Michigan. Ever since they
arrived in the U.S. from Uruguay, Dos Santos had navigated
life with an anglicized name — even they anglicized it.
Every time Dos Santos made an introduction or others
used their name, Dos Santos says it felt like a painful cut, a
reminder that they didn’t belong.
“Every time I said my name, it was hard because I don’t
even know how to pronounce it in English,” Dos Santos says.
About five years ago, while still at Taubman, Dos Santos
attended a DEI workshop where the facilitator asked
everyone to pronounce their names in the way they are
intended. When Dos Santos said their name, their colleagues
realized they had incorrectly pronounced it for a long time. As Top: A graphic shows a name tag which can be used for proper name
pronunciation, produced by the Say My Name Project. Bottom: A
everyone in the office began to speak the true pronunciation NameCoach audio badge is used in an email signature by Jane Bryan,
of Dos Santos’ name, they felt the wounds from each incorrect PhD, reader at the University of Warwick School of Law and founder of
the Say My Name Project. (Images courtesy of Jane Bryan, PhD)
pronunciation begin to heal.
“I felt like a whole part of me was seen again,” Dos Santos
says. “I connected with an old part of my identity that I
thought I had lost. I cannot even describe the feeling of
somebody pronouncing the name in the way that you want it are still held in classrooms, and faculty and students are
… they see you in a whole different light.” encouraged to wear phonetic nametags to meetings.
Of course, Dos Santos isn’t alone in their experience. Many “At the same time we started having conversations about
people are called a name other than their own by those who the Phonetic Name Initiative, I was like — ‘Oh my God,
are indifferent or uneducated. Others don’t hear their name everything’s coming together!’ Not only are my colleagues
at all, as people often avoid verbalizing names due to fear of learning about my name, but there’s also this energy at the
embarrassment from mispronunciation. college to pronounce people’s names in the way they were
The profound shift in Dos Santos’ life came from the intended,” Dos Santos says. “I was the first test case.”
launch of Taubman College’s Phonetic Name Initiative. In the The pandemic moved the initiative online. On Zoom,
first year, nametags were made for every student. The campus the campus community is encouraged to use the phonetic
community was encouraged to attend a welcome event and name pronunciation feature and include their pronouns.
write their intended name pronunciation. Such workshops NameCoach, a tool that allows people to voice-record their
20 January/February 2023names and set up a profile, was also name they are unsure how to pronounce. names correctly. Both the Say My
used to accurately learn names, with an The Say My Name project brought Name project and the My Name, My
audio link included in email signatures. attention to the issue at Warwick. Identity Campaign offer online name
Other NameCoach integration tools Students now use audio name badges pronunciation training and additional
are used on Canvas, an online learning in their email signatures, name resources to the public.
management system. pronunciation door hangers with Bryan and Dos Santos have advice
A campaign like the Phonetic respectful articulation guidelines, and for anyone struggling to pronounce
Name Initiative operates in phonetic nametags. The project has names correctly.
Coventry, England. Jane Bryan, expanded beyond the university, as The first thing someone should do
PhD, a reader at the University of Bryan has spoken at an international if they are unsure of a pronunciation is
Warwick School of Law, founded the symposium, published blog posts, to simply ask the other person how to
Say My Name project. After having and, more recently, worked with pronounce their name. It is reasonable to
difficulties in pronouncing student the city of Coventry to advance a ask a second or third time if you forget;
names and feeling her uncertain community initiative. however, it’s important to try to make
approach was disrespectful, she Bryan is inspired by a similar a concerted effort to remember the
searched for self-improvement. program based in California called the pronunciation, Bryan says.
Bryan conducted a university-wide My Name, My Identity Campaign, Prior to meeting someone, Bryan
survey and received 850 responses. created by the Santa Clara County recommends looking up their name
More than half of the students and Office of Education in partnership pronunciation on Google, NameCoach,
faculty reported experiencing routine with the National Association for or NameShouts. Users should be aware
mispronunciation of their own names Bilingual Education. It has spread that pronunciations often vary, and it
and nearly half the respondents said across the U.S., with educators signing is polite to check with the person to
they work or study with someone whose a pledge to pronounce students’ ensure what is correct.
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insightintodiversity.com 215 Steps TO People should avoid drawing
unwanted attention as they seek
RESPECTING STUDENTS’ NAMES proper pronunciations because it can
make others feel ostracized, Bryan
says. Also, there is generally no need
for commentary about a name, which
CARE ABOUT includes asking intrusive questions.
Making someone feel as if they are
GETTING NAMES RIGHT different or exotic can be alienating,
and asking someone what the meaning
If you are in a position of influence, getting the pronunciation behind their name is could be insulting,
of names right is even more important as you will be harder cautions Dos Santos.
to correct and more likely to be imitated. Using a nickname that is easier
to remember than the individual’s
intended name is hurtful and wrong,
PREPARE AHEAD Bryan says. It’s also important to
avoid deadnaming someone or calling
Where possible, consult class lists and use Google them by a name they do not identify
or NameShouts to check how to pronounce names with for various reasons.— such as
that are unfamiliar (check accuracy with the name- if someone has changed their legal
bearer themselves when you meet). name, Bryan and Dos Santos advise.
Memorizing people’s pronouns is also
equally important, Dos Santos says.
CREATE SPACE FOR A common mistake made by people
struggling with pronouncing a name
STUDENTS TO SAY is to avoid using it altogether. Often,
individuals notice when their name
THEIR OWN NAME isn’t being used and it impacts their
feelings related to visibility and
Allow students to introduce themselves and use ice-breaker connection, Bryan says.
name games so students hear how to pronounce others’ For those who want to have their
names correctly. Use name cards with phonetic spelling. own name spoken correctly, Dos
Santos says it’s a right, not a dream, to
have one’s name pronounced the way
it’s intended, and people should not
MAKE NAMES MATTER feel compelled to conform, to please,
or to make the situation easier for
Model greeting everyone by name, using their other people.
name in interactions, and caring about correct Dos Santos and other DEI experts
pronunciation of names.— encouraging everyone are calling for people to commit to
to check and correct pronunciation when needed learning the pronunciation of others’
and to use the name they genuinely prefer. names. Saying someone’s name out
loud, in the way it is intended, shows
respect for their culture, background,
HELP OTHERS GET and experiences, and it signifies they are
worthy of one’s time, Dos Santos says.
NAMES RIGHT Dos Santos wants everyone to feel
as complete as they feel now.●
Encourage use of audio name badges and pronunciation guides in email
signatures and profiles (these can be easily created for free using NameCoach).
Use pronunciation guides in materials to help students say terms correctly.
Source: warwick.ac.uk/saymyname
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