ACE Diversity SIG
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Welcome to the ACE Diversity Special Interest Group Community Wiki
This is a collaborative work space for members of the ACE Diversity SIG. In keeping with wiki culture and technology, members are welcome, even expected, to contribute to and edit our pages.
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Our Mission
The mission of the ACE Diversity Special Interest Group (SIG) is to promote and support programs by all ACE members to communicate with diverse audiences.
ACE Diversity SIG Materials and Outside Links
Audience Resources (Find SIG newsletters and other reports here.)
Annual ACE Conference Diversity Presentations
Diversity SIG Strategic Action Plan 2009-2010
Chair: Marusela Anders (read her bio)
Vice Chair: Ariel Ginsburg (read her bio)
Vice Chair-elect: Tom Merrill (read his bio)
SIG Communications
- The SIG Wiki will be updated regularly and members will be invited to participate actively on it. The wiki will also house the e-newsletter. Maintained by Ariel Ginsburg and Tom Merrill.
- SIG officers will schedule monthly conference calls to discuss SIG business. Facilitated by Marusela Anders.
SIG Mission
The mission of the ACE Diversity Special Interest Group (SIG) is to promote and support programs by all ACE members to communicate with diverse audiences.
SIG Goals
Increase membership participation and strengthen communication with members
1. Wiki
- The wiki will be used not only to keep members informed, but to encourage and invite them to participate fully and actively. It will be updated with new materials such as diversity-related ACE presentations, Social Responsibility materials, Diversity Catalyst group presentations, and Web resources. The SIG newsletter will be posted in the wiki.
- Responsibility: Ariel Ginsburg and Tom Merrill will work on updating and maintaining the SIG's wiki.
- Timeline: This is an ongoing process. Will be updated as needed.
- Responsibility: Ariel Ginsburg and Tom Merrill will work on updating and maintaining the SIG's wiki.
2. Invitation to ACE members
- ACE Members will be surveyed to determine who belongs to any type of Diversity group or organization in their institution. They will be invited to share/contribute articles, presentations, etc. that can be useful to the SIG.
- Responsibility: Marusela Anders and Ariel Ginsburg will send an e-mail to the ACE membership and contact any respondents.
- Timeline: By June 2010.
- Responsibility: Marusela Anders and Ariel Ginsburg will send an e-mail to the ACE membership and contact any respondents.
3. Monthly SIG Officers Conference Calls
- The SIG’s officers initiated monthly teleconferences and agree to continue with this practice.
- Responsibility: Marusela Anders
- Timeline: Monthly
- Responsibility: Marusela Anders
Three-year professional development plan
- Over the next three years, the SIG will work on offering professional development training sessions on diversity issues to the ACE membership. The SIG will look for new technologies available to the membership so that they can take advantage of this opportunity.
- Session about Diversity issues in the next ACE Annual Conference. Topic and presenters to be announced.
- Expand the current concept and language of the diversity categories---targeted publics---for the C&A competition to increase and diversify the range of options and to possibly add diversity as part of the judging criteria in other categories. Other SIGs will be approached to get a sense of what they do and how we can expand this concept to offer more options.
Diversity SIG Surveys Members on Diversity Challenges
During the 2005 ACE meeting, members of the Diversity SIG discussed how to better serve our members within the SIG, as well as other ACE members.
As a result, the ACE Diversity SIG Member Survey was born. The survey, which was sent via email in fall 2005, asked members to share any questions, concerns, and ideas they had on diversity in the agricultural communications workplace. There were many great recommendations made by our members, which we hope to begin working on soon, as well as expanding this survey to include all ACE members.
Download the pdf with results of this survey.
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