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The "DONE" column is the shortest column in this presentation.  The group had a difficult time finding initiatives that demonstrated the goal of diversity being met regarding limiting violence towards minorities on college campuses. This exercise taught us that though there are dialogues and partnerships being formed, there is still much work to be done to build capacity for diversity and inclusion. 

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The "DONE" column is the shortest column in this presentation.  The group had a difficult time finding initiatives that demonstrated the goal of diversity being met regarding limiting violence towards minorities on college campuses. This exercise taught us that though there are dialogues and partnerships being formed, there is still much work to be done to build capacity for diversity and inclusion. 

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Local law enforcement agencies are seeking to hire a more diverse group of officers to relieve race tensions. 

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What It Means to Be a Black Police Officer After Dallas Shootings

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New training can reduce racial tensions.

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New training can reduce racial tensions.

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In Seattle, police have the power to send drug offenders to a rehabilitation center instead of jail. In Kalamazoo, Mich., officers are evaluated less on the number of tickets or arrests they make and more on their "customer service."

And efforts in Camden, N.J., to improve interactions between police and citizens prompted President Obama to call the city "a symbol of promise for the nation."

Law enforcement agencies across the country have implemented radical new programs and re-trained their officers to improve relationships with minorities in their communities. Many police chiefs try to better educate their officers to ease the type of racial tension that peaked last week after the deaths of several black suspects and five Dallas policemen, said Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit research organization.

"There are obviously some police chiefs and sheriffs who don't have any interest, but I think they're in the minority," Bueermann said Sunday. "The overwhelming majority of police departments really do want to engage communities and be responsive."

Criminal justice experts say two major problems face those efforts. The first is the difficulty understanding what strategies and tactics actually work.

Beeurmann, a former police chief in Redlands, Calif., said it has been difficult for many officers to adapt to an ever-changing job description. Officers increasingly become the first responders to people with mental health problems, homelessness and drug and alcohol addiction. He said few have any training to understand those people and how to respond.

"Most police training relates to the mechanics - how to drive your car, how to investigate a crime," Beeurmann said. "But if you look at everything they have to do, they're really social agents."

Beeurmann said many officers don't understand the racial complexities they encounter every day, such as the history of abuse that African Americans endured at the hands of law enforcement. That means police aren't prepared to respond to suspects who act nervous or aggressive when pulled over by a white officer.

"Every cop going through an academy ought to have a block that relates to the history of slavery," he said. "Asking them to just collect facts and investigate crimes - that's not enough anymore."

That leads to the second problem facing agencies that want to improve their relationship with black citizens: the Dallas massacre.

Karlos Hill, an associate history professor at Texas Tech University who studies racial violence, said there was a moment last week where he thought the American public was ready to make wholesale changes in law enforcement.

Hill said the tide seemed to shift after witness videos surfaced last week of the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile near St. Paul after being shot by white officers. He thought the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining ground and convincing elected leaders to take action to reduce violent encounters with police.

"Any hope for mobilizing our congressmen or our state officials to pass legislation or push police unions and police departments to change police practices, I think that all went away when that individual decided to take the lives of those five officers," said Hill, author of the book, Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.

Hill said officials can't simply ignore the mass protests taking place around the country and must show they're responding to the African-American community. On the other hand, Hill said any police chief who announces changes in police training or practices too soon after the Dallas shootings will face severe blowback from officers and their unions.

"They can't appear to be siding with the Black Lives Matter activists," Hill said. "They won't long have a job if they do that."

Dan Slaughter, the police chief in Clearwater, Fla., disagrees.

His department has long been hailed for being proactive in adopting community policing practices. In 2012, the department won the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Award for Operation Graduate, a program that uses police to help identify at-risk youth and provide them with help to graduate high school and learn other life skills.

Slaughter said Sunday that the Dallas shooting will definitely get police officers around the country on alert, but it shouldn't slow any attempts to modernize and improve the way police departments engage with minorities in their communities.

"I don't think police leadership will get derailed because of one person who did a horrific, heinous act," Slaughter said. "It may change how we respond when we respond to certain events. But no, I wouldn't see that it would change anybody's impression of how they should engage the public."

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Some police agencies are easing racial tensions

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In Seattle, police have the power to send drug offenders to a rehabilitation center instead of jail. In Kalamazoo, Mich., officers are evaluated less on the number of tickets or arrests they make and more on their "customer service."

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Many communities already have the tools to reduce racial profiling.

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Many communities already have the tools to reduce racial profiling.

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After being pulled over for a busted taillight on July 6, Philando Castile informed a Minnesota police officer at his window that he owned a gun and had a license to carry it. As he reached for his license and registration, his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter then watched as the police officer fired four shots into Castile's body. He died in the driver's seat.

Allowing suspects to explain their side of the story reduced compliance issues

Castile was one of 137 Black people in the United States killed by a police officer this year [as of July 8, 2016]. Another Black man, Alton Sterling, was killed by police in Louisiana the night before. On Thursday, seemingly in response, five police officers were killed and six were wounded when snipers interrupted a peaceful protest in Dallas on July 7. Amid the violence there have been forceful calls to city leaders to address police racism and brutality.

But research has existed for awhile to show cities how to reduce racism and interrupt the violence.

Train for racial bias

Stereotypes about the criminality of Black communities affect a police officer's decision to shoot a suspect. That's a fact. However, racial bias training can address the preconceptions and subsequent racially based brutality. After extensive training with a computer simulator in which the race of the suspect was unrelated to the presence of a weapon, a Florida State University study showed that officers were able to eliminate their biases. In a separate study, California officers also that listening to the community and giving suspects time to explain their side of the story reduced compliance issues and increased cooperation.

Hire more female officers

Female officers are less likely to use excessive force, according to a National Center for Women in Policing report that looked at seven major U.S. police departments. While women make up 12.7 percent of those departments, they only account for 5 percent of citizen complaints of excessive force. This also means that female officers cost their departments less, because they are less likely to be involved in litigation. The Los Angeles Police Department paid $63.4 million between 1990 and 1999 for lawsuits against male officers and only $2.8 million for those against female officers.

Match the racial diversity of community

Police departments rarely mirror the diversity of their communities. The New York Times that hundreds of police departments are 30 percent more White than the populations they serve. But the number of violent incidents drop drastically when the diversity of the force matches the diversity of its community, according to research from Columbia Law School. A call for this diversity goes back decades, points out Joscha Legewie, who conducted the research with Jeffrey Fagan. "Our findings indicate that in cities that are polarized, particularly where there might be more ethnic or racial tensions, a diverse police force might help reduce tensions," Legewie said.

Open departments to research

Police departments need to open their records to researchers if they want to understand how to fix brutality, said Beatriz Magaloni, an associate professor of political science at Stanford. Magaloni police brutality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where 5,132 civilians were killed by police between 2005 and 2014. While Rio is very different from the U.S., violence is likewise concentrated around poor and Black communities. Her research introduced Magaloni to some of the most effective practices, such as peaceful policing of slums and providing salary incentives for reducing homicides rather than rewards for bravery-which contributed to a culture of violence.

Wear body cameras

Body cameras reduce complaints against police officers, University of South Florida researchers found in a conducted with the Orlando Police Department. During one year, 46 Orlando officers were randomly assigned to wear body cameras while 43 did not. At the beginning, most officers were skeptical. But by the end, the majority acknowledged that body cameras positively influenced behavior, improved evidence collection, and reduced civilian complaints. They agreed to continue wearing cameras.

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We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence

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After being pulled over for a busted taillight on July 6, Philando Castile informed a Minnesota police officer at his window that he owned a gun and had a license to carry it. As he reached for his license and registration, his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter then watched as the police officer fired four shots into Castile's body.

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Author Daryl Davis gave a lecture at Grand Valley State University about his experience as an African American male interviewing the Klu Klux Klan members for his book.  Forty five Klu Klux Klan members, including one Grand Master, renounced their Klu Klux Klan membership as a result of building dialogue.  Mr. Davis's message is that "ignorance breeds fear," and once he began learning about the members' experiences, they indirectly learned about his experiences. That exchange of information created a productive dialogue with concrete and effective results. 

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Author Daryl Davis gave a lecture at Grand Valley State University about his experience as an African American male interviewing the Klu Klux Klan members for his book.  Forty five Klu Klux Klan members, including one Grand Master, renounced their Klu Klux Klan membership as a result of building dialogue.  Mr. Davis's message is that "ignorance breeds fear," and once he began learning about the members' experiences, they indirectly learned about his experiences. That exchange of information created a productive dialogue with concrete and effective results. 

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By Rachel Matuszewski | 2/22/18 3:17am

Musician and author Daryl Davis spoke to Grand Valley State University students about the events and research that inspired his book "Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan." The event took place in the Kirkhof Center Grand River Room on Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Davis first experienced racism when he was 10 and pop cans were thrown at him as he led his boy scout troop in a parade, holding the American flag. When his parents told him why white people had tried to hurt him, he did not believe them. This experience marked the beginning of his quest to answer the question, "How can you hate me when you don't even know me?"

Students learned about Davis' first encounter with a KKK member. After Davis finished a set with his new band at the "all-white" Silver Dollar Bar, the man put his arm around his shoulder and commented on his talent on the piano. The two sat together and Davis learned why the man had never talked to an African-American before because of the membership card he kept in his wallet, which contained the KKK insignia.

This encounter sparked the idea for his book, for which he interviewed the Maryland KKK Grand Dragon and others across the country to try to answer his question.

His first encounter with the Grand Dragon, or top-state officer of Maryland, Roger Kelly, was a surprise. Davis had his secretary make the appointment because he knew Kelly would recognize he was black by his voice. When they planned to meet in a hotel room, Davis was prepared for the interview with a Bible, cassette tapes and sodas to be hospitable.

When the Nighthawk, or KKK bodyguard, entered in front of Kelly, Davis recalled how Kelly froze, confused to see an African-American waiting to speak to them. The conversation was tense, with the Nighthawk reaching for the gun in his holster every time Davis moved.

Davis went into survival mode. In the middle of the interview, a sound alarmed them both, making Davis jump and put his hands on the table in front of them, prepared to knock both of them to the ground because he could not outrun a bullet. Davis recalled that he and Kelly locked eyes as though to ask each other who made the noise. Yet, Davis' secretary discovered it was the soda cans falling because the ice had melted.

"The lesson taught is this: All because some foreign entity of which we were ignorant, that being the bucket of ice and cans of soda, entered into our comfort zone via the noise that it made, unbeknownst to us, we became fearful of one another," Davis said. "Ignorance breeds fear. We fear those things we don't understand. If we don't put a lid on that fear and keep that fear in check, that fear in turn will breed hatred because we hate those things that frighten us.

"If we don't keep that hatred in check, that hatred in turn will breed destruction. We want to destroy those things that we hate. Why? Because they frighten us. But guess what? They may have been harmless and we were just ignorant."

After this encounter, Davis interviewed more Klan members and stayed in contact with Kelly. He emphasized the importance of conversations and listening to each other to be able to learn each other's point of view.

"I did not respect what Roger Kelly had to say," Davis said. "I did respect his right to say it."

That respect has gone a long way, as Davis now owns the robes Kelly wore as an Imperial Wizard when he renounced his affiliation with the group. Davis' collection of robes and people walking away from the hate group has grown to 45.

"The first time it happened I was shocked." Davis said. "I realized while you were actively learning about somebody else, at the same time you are passively teaching them about yourself. They were seeing things in me I didn't realize they were seeing. Our country, our society, is going to become one of two things. It has no choice.

"It will become what we let it become or it will become what we make it. You choose what you want to be a part of."

Davis' storytelling struck attendees as well.

"The more information and conversations you have, the more you can combat the issue," said GVSU student Rachel Hecht. "I think he was a good storyteller. He had a good theme throughout."

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'Ignorance breeds fear': Author Daryl Davis lectures at GVSU on relieving racial tensions

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Musician and author Daryl Davis spoke to Grand Valley State University students about the events and research that inspired his book "Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan." The event took place in the Kirkhof Center Grand River Room on Tuesday, Feb. 20.

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During a town hall meeting, police and citizens of various races voice their concerns and opinions about police and racial tensions.  While this is not on a college campus, this small segment demonstrates how voices can be heard and consciousness raised.  Academic affairs and student affairs could work together to create forums to create a dialogue among students.

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During a town hall meeting, police and citizens of various races voice their concerns and opinions about police and racial tensions.  While this is not on a college campus, this small segment demonstrates how voices can be heard and consciousness raised.  Academic affairs and student affairs could work together to create forums to create a dialogue among students.

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Minority groups across America demanded "safe spaces" for marginalized minority students to gather and provide a medium for them to share their stories.  Campuses are working with student groups to address institutional racism. 

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Minority groups across America demanded "safe spaces" for marginalized minority students to gather and provide a medium for them to share their stories.  Campuses are working with student groups to address institutional racism. 

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In the wake of last week's and resignations at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), "safe spaces" for students of marginalized identities are popping up all over the campuses of the Claremont Colleges. After protestors called for action, CMC President Hiram Chodosh stated his commitment to providing a permanent safe space for students of color in the near future. Until then, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) have dedicated part of their office as a safe space for these students.

Safe spaces for minority students have appeared on the campuses of other Claremont Colleges as well. Last week, the Motley Coffeehouse at Scripps College issued a statement on its official Facebook page, "The Motley sitting room will be open tonight from 6-10 only for people of color and allies that they invite. Please feel free to come and use the space for whatever you need - decompress, discuss, grieve, plan, support each other, etc. In solidarity."

The 5C Students of Color Alliance also held an event at Pomona College to provide a safe space for "healing" and "self-preservation" for students of color. "Come by to chat, work, vent, organize, express, and do anything else that will help sustain you with other students of color," they write in a Facebook post. "As this is a space for students of color, please respect the space as such. I truly hope that organizations centering around different marginalized identities continue (or begin) offering spaces for intentional healing and preservation!"

Additionally, a "Hurting and Healing" , described as "a *for POC, by POC* art show," is scheduled to take place at Pomona College on December 5. "This show's intent is to create a space that is pro-POC, pro-black, and anti-white supremacist," states the event's website. "While you may want to invite a white friend or ally, to make this a safe and comfortable space for other POC, we ask that you do not."

Further, the editorial board of The Student Life, an official, student government-fundednewspaper, expressed solidarity with the recent movement and issued a explaining that the publication will create a space in its next issue for students of color who wish to write about their personal experiences. "We are tired of going to protests, seeing White allies snap and clap and shout only to move on the next day like nothing happened," the editors write.

"So for those who don't feel all the messages of solidarity are enough, or who feel that mainstream media is misguided in representing people of color, or who feel compelled to speak and be heard, we would like to repurpose its influence by providing a space in next week's issue for students of color to voice their experiences," the editors continue. "We will proofread, but we will not edit your voice or content."

In response to the abundance of racially segregated safe spaces on campus, two CMC students issued a of concern. "We are in support of every person's right to associate, or not associate, with whomever they choose," the students write. "However, we object in the strongest fashion to institution-sanctioned physical safe spaces whose purpose is to discriminate based on racial or sexual identities, and which physically bar certain students from their premises."

They point out, "CMC guidelines forbid organizations associated with the college to deny membership based on sex, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, sexual orientation or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability, as they ought to."

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In the wake of last week's protests and resignations at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), "safe spaces" for students of marginalized identities are popping up all over the campuses of the Claremont Colleges. After protestors called for action, CMC President Hiram Chodosh stated his commitment to providing a permanent safe space for students of color in ...

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Florida Gulf Coast  University class is entitled "White Racism."  Campus police were stationed outside the classroom on the first day.  The public needs awareness on what institutional racism is and why "White Racism" is not used to produce shock value, but is used because it accurately construes how institutional racism works in our country today.

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Florida Gulf Coast  University class is entitled "White Racism."  Campus police were stationed outside the classroom on the first day.  The public needs awareness on what institutional racism is and why "White Racism" is not used to produce shock value, but is used because it accurately construes how institutional racism works in our country today.

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"All that it takes is that one person to act on their views," said Ted Thornhill, assistant professor of sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University, in a phone call with CNN. "We've got to be cautious because you don't know what people are capable of."

Tuesday was the first day of class, and there were no incidents reported. But Thornhill's course has been creating headlines, and controversy, since it was announced last fall.

A course description says the class will "interrogate the concept of race; examine the racist ideologies, laws, policies, and practices that have operated for hundreds of years to maintain white racial domination over those racialized as non-white." It also aims to "discuss ways to challenge white racism and white supremacy toward promoting an anti-racist society where whiteness is not tied to greater life chances."

The class filled quickly to the maximum of 50 students.

One, Bryan Oliva-Infante, told CNN he felt uncomfortable attending the class Tuesday because of the controversy. On his way to class he said he noticed extra university police officers nearby.

"Although I was a bit nervous, sitting through the class felt like a sigh of relief," said Oliva-Infante, president of FGCU College Democrats and FGCU for Dreamers.

"For the first time, ever, at FGCU, I was in an academic setting where the majority of people were students of color," he said. "It was beautiful to see that many of my classmates had cultural backgrounds similar to mine. One thing we all have in common was that our communities all suffer from white racism."

46 pages of emails

Thornhill, who is African American, said he decided to title the course "White Racism" because he believes it accurately signifies the material.

"I understood that many white Americans, and some people of color, would find it provocative," he told CNN.

The professor said he wasn't surprised when he was besieged with messages -- most of them negative -- and some hate mail in the days and weeks after the course was announced. Even so, he said he was shocked by their vitriol.

Thornhill shared with CNN 46 pages of emails he has received about the course. A few FGCU parents threatened to pull their tuition. Some writers asked why the course was called "White Racism" when racism exists among all ethnic groups. Others said Thornhill should devote class time to black racism.

Still others pelted him with insults and racial slurs.

"Cancer(Stage 4) is what you and your family deserve for spreading hate, lies, & in tolerance." read one email.

"I would ask that you stop using the name Ted and Thornhill, as I feel you are using a cultural appropriation. Change it to Obongo Deviantray you racist pig," said another.

A third said, "I BET MEMBERSHIP IN THE KLAN IS PROBABLY SKYROCKETING BECAUSE OF RADICALS LIKE YOU."

Others called him "a pitiful little boy," "a subhuman mongrel" and an "alt-left piece of sh*t."

Asked about the outcry, Thornhill told CNN, "It is not my job to provide white people with comfort."

He later said, "I never at any point entertained the possibility of changing the course title to accommodate the racial bigotry of the individuals who would send me these kinds of messages."

Another 'White Racism' course

Thornhill's experience is not unusual. Last year more than 100 incidents of harassment targeting professors were reported on college campuses around the country, according to the American Association of University Professors.

And like at FGCU, safety concerns have been raised as a result of controversial subject matter taught in classrooms.

This also is not the first time a course called "White Racism" has caused an uproar. In 1995 Noel Cazenave, a sociology professor at the University of Connecticut, began teaching a class with the same name and subject matter. It too, was controversial.

The outcry over the course was so intense, Cazenave told CNN, that the school tabled it twice amid widespread publicity.

"It went global," he said. When it was announced that the class would finally be taught, Cazenave described seeing the press outside his window, lining up "like I discovered the cure to cancer."

At FGCU, Thornhill's class will meet again on Thursday. The university did not say whether police will be stationed outside.

"Our University Police Department will determine going forward if there's anything new that would warrant attention beyond their normal campus rounds," FGCU spokeswoman Susan Evans said in an email to CNN.

For his part, Thornhill says his course is about a search for truth.

"My White Racism course is not anti-white; it is anti-white racism," he said in a written statement sent to CNN and other news outlets. "Clearly, not all white people are racists; some are even anti-racist. However, all people racialized as white derive, in some measure, material and psychological benefits by virtue of being racialized as white."

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"All that it takes is that one person to act on their views," said Ted Thornhill, assistant professor of sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University, in a phone call with CNN. "We've got to be cautious because you don't know what people are capable of."

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To understand how minorities play a role within the higher education community students can develop "I am" statements relating to their identity and share them within their curricular or cocurricular groups. By creating an open environment to share identities of all students either an academic affairs or student affairs group can tackle the importance of diversity through the lens of CRT.

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To understand how minorities play a role within the higher education community students can develop "I am" statements relating to their identity and share them within their curricular or cocurricular groups. By creating an open environment to share identities of all students either an academic affairs or student affairs group can tackle the importance of diversity through the lens of CRT.

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In the Watt edited book, Erkel summarizes the assumptions of Critical Race Theory, as presented by Delgado and Stefancic (1997): 1) Racism is systemic in nature (CRT looks at racism as an institution, not individual events).  2) Change does not seem favorable to the dominant group because racism benefits the dominate group. 3) Race relationship experiences are played out daily by interactions, behaviors, and values of both marginalized and dominant groups. 4) Storytelling is a method to raise awareness about race relations to the dominant group and to empower, or give voice, to marginalized individuals  (156).

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In the Watt edited book, Erkel summarizes the assumptions of Critical Race Theory, as presented by Delgado and Stefancic (1997): 1) Racism is systemic in nature (CRT looks at racism as an institution, not individual events).  2) Change does not seem favorable to the dominant group because racism benefits the dominate group. 3) Race relationship experiences are played out daily by interactions, behaviors, and values of both marginalized and dominant groups. 4) Storytelling is a method to raise awareness about race relations to the dominant group and to empower, or give voice, to marginalized individuals  (156).

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These statistics are showing the positive impact on African American men who receive an education. This demonstrates why Americans should fight for minorities to have a safe environment on college campuses. An unsafe college campus should not interfere with their goals of obtaining an education. 

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These statistics are showing the positive impact on African American men who receive an education. This demonstrates why Americans should fight for minorities to have a safe environment on college campuses. An unsafe college campus should not interfere with their goals of obtaining an education. 

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Black Lives Matter: The Schott 50-State Report on Public Education and Black Males, 2015

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Bruce Springsteen wrote, "41 Shots" to give minorities a voice regarding mistreatment by officers. 

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Bruce Springsteen wrote, "41 Shots" to give minorities a voice regarding mistreatment by officers. 

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - American Skin (41 Shots) (Live in New York City)

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Where are the shootings against minorities?

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Where are the shootings against minorities?

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LePeau has three recommendations, in the Watt edited book, to maintain collaboration between student and academic affairs. "First, student and academic affair professionals should be included to develop institutional goals. Secondly, blur lines between student and academic affairs to create a functional partnership for multicultural differences. Thirdly, everyone needs to be involved to maintain momentum in changing race relations" (187).

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LePeau has three recommendations, in the Watt edited book, to maintain collaboration between student and academic affairs. "First, student and academic affair professionals should be included to develop institutional goals. Secondly, blur lines between student and academic affairs to create a functional partnership for multicultural differences. Thirdly, everyone needs to be involved to maintain momentum in changing race relations" (187).

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An idea that was communicated in the Watt reading was the idea of collaboration through the use of a digital portfolio system. By implementing this type of system, Academic Affairs can outline intercultural learning objectives that can connect students across the institution inside and outside of the classroom. For example, Penn State has begun utilizing digital portfolios for curricular and co-curricular activities including intercultural development (Johnson, G. and Rayman, J. R. (2007), e‐Portfolios: A collaboration between student affairs and faculty. New Directions for Student Services, 2007: 17-30. doi:10.1002/ss.246)

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An idea that was communicated in the Watt reading was the idea of collaboration through the use of a digital portfolio system. By implementing this type of system, Academic Affairs can outline intercultural learning objectives that can connect students across the institution inside and outside of the classroom. For example, Penn State has begun utilizing digital portfolios for curricular and co-curricular activities including intercultural development (Johnson, G. and Rayman, J. R. (2007), e‐Portfolios: A collaboration between student affairs and faculty. New Directions for Student Services, 2007: 17-30. doi:10.1002/ss.246)

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Coffee with a Cop allows police officers and members of the community to discuss problems in the community. Also, it provides the opportunity for members of the community to acknowledge police officers as human beings. Communities and college campuses have implemented the program to create an open dialogue. 

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Coffee with a Cop allows police officers and members of the community to discuss problems in the community. Also, it provides the opportunity for members of the community to acknowledge police officers as human beings. Communities and college campuses have implemented the program to create an open dialogue. 

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Coffee with a Cop brings police officers and the community members they serve together-over coffee-to discuss issues and learn more about each other.