Sylvia Hurtado Speaks at Diversity Conference

Sylvia Hurtado, a professor at UCLA and director of its Higher Education Research Institute, was the opening speaker on October 21 of the Diversity Forum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An article in the Daily Cardinal newspaper said,

Hurtado outlined her model for creating diverse learning environments and emphasized the need of recognizing different factors that influence the campus climate.

The first of these dimensions relates to the group’s history of inclusion or exclusion within the campus community. Hurtado added the campus community must ask “who’s at the table?” to ensure all groups are being fairly represented.

“Diversity is a resource, it’s not a problem,” she said. “Inequity is the problem.”