- Mailing Address
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10 Upper College Dr
Alfred, New York 14802 - Phone
- (800) 425-3733
- Email address
- admissions@alfredstate.edu
- Website
- https://www.alfredstate.edu/
- School Information
- "Alfred State, a residential college of technology, provides career-focused education enriched by the liberal arts. With about 80 dynamic majors — offering engaging course work in both traditional classrooms and the real world — Alfred State provides students with unparalleled preparation." (Source: http://catalog.alfredstate.edu/current/courses/courses-by-code.php?subject=soci&courseCode=1223)
- General Information
- Alfred State offers a course "Power, Privilege, & Difference." Alfred State does not currently require Critical Race Training sessions of all students. However, see developments below:
Actions Taken
- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
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The Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Title IX offers workshops and training with topics ranging from "safe zone training" to "privilege walk."
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In October of 2020, the Alfred State athletic department worked with Shawn Newton from the Newton Consultancy Group to provide student-athletes with education on racism. Newton presented a program titled, "Racism: Breaking it Down and Breaking it Apart," which is designed to "enhance people's awareness of the phenomenon of racism and the methods and techniques to dismantle it."
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- Faculty/Staff Requirements
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An update on the "AU Commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression" in 2021 was provided. This includes "all professional library personnel participat[ing] in a retreat focused on implicit bias and microaggressions, with a focus on how these manifest in libraries and colleges/universities" as well as "requir[ing] all professional library personnel to participate in bystander intervention training."
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ASC's College of Technology states that it would require faculty to "participate in diversity training each year."
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- Program and Research Funding
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The Center for Intercultural Unity at ASC "facilitates students' self-awareness, learning, and growth regarding different cultures, viewpoints, and experiences" and "support[s] and promote[s] under-represented student organizations, including, but not limited to LGBTQ+, students of color, women, veterans and military service, international students, and faith-based groups."
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- Resources
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Alfred State offers a course, "Power, Privilege, & Difference," which "examines the social forces at work directing the distribution of power and privilege in American society. Using a sociological perspective, students learn about the multiple hierarchies defined by class, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and the consequences of one's location in them. Students will learn intersectionality theory and its application to the study of inequality; that 'difference' is socially constructed in systems of privilege to create 'otherness,' and, in turn, prejudice and discrimination."
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Alfred State's Library offers research guides on systemic racism.
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ASC's e Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Title IX provides a list of "anti-racist" resources which include; "A Kids Book About Racism," How To Be An Antiracist," and "Me and White Supremacy."
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- Symbolic Actions
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In August 2020, the Alfred University Libraries made a commitment to "Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression."
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