This page contains links to web sites dealing with issues of diversity. All of the sites have “education” links that could be utilized by educators and students to enrich the classroom learning environment. This list is by no means comprehensive. If would like to add a diversity web site that you found particularly useful and/or educational, please contact lawrencek@pdx.edu with the web address and information.

25 Hour Diversity Curriculum by Jack Straton
This site contains course modules on diversity that are used in team-taught, multidisciplinary, year-long courses that constitute the first year general education program at Portland State University. One over-arching goal is to help students become conscious participants in their own value systems and to enhance their awareness of social and community responsibility.
http://web.pdx.edu/~straton/diversity/straton/diversity.html

American Association for People with Disabilities
The AAPD is dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and
political empowerment for the more than 56 million Americans with
disabilities. AAPD works in coalition with other disability organizations for
the full implementation and enforcement of disability nondiscrimination laws,
particularly the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
http://www.aapd-dc.org/

Activating Change Together
Self-Advocacy for people with disabilities.
http://www.selfadvocacy.com/

American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Defending the Civil Rights of all Arabs in the United States.
http://www.adc.org/

American Indian Cultural Research Center
There are nearly three hundred distinct American Indian Nations in the present United States. Each has its own language and history and its own sacred places and rituals. The principal purpose of the Center is to inform the general public of the world views and philosophies of life of Native Peoples.
http://www.bluecloud.org/dakota.html

Diversity Web – Association of American Colleges and Universities
Diversity Web is a comprehensive collection of campus practices and resources about diversity in higher education. This site is designed to serve campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission.
http://www.diversityweb.org/

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
Vision: To ensure every American can participate in the workplace, the
classroom, and the community regardless of whether they meet prescribed ideals
for masculinity or femininity.
http://www.gpac.org/ 

Multicultural Teaching
Multicultural teaching strategies and other resources from
The University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/multiteaching/multiteaching.html

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
This site offers lessons and reflections on struggles for freedom. http://www.freedomcenter.org

The Antidefamation League
Working against Anti-semitism and towards fair treatment for all.
http://www.adl.org/

Passports: Crossing Cultural Barriers
An online collection of resources, lesson plans and information designed to help both teachers and students become more culturally competent. This site has been developed with the help of educators in schools around the Portland metro area.
http://www.opb.org/education/minisites/culturalcompetence/

The Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate,
intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
http://www.splcenter.org/

Understanding Prejudice
Information on the causes and consequences of prejudice.
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/

Women in the Academic Profession
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) focuses on issues of concern to female faculty members. The AAUP has developed policy statements, guidelines and resources on equity in pay, work/family, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and Title IX.
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/WomeninHE/index.htm