The conference began with a dramatization of a fictitious faculty search committee meeting presented by Theater Delta, Inc., a theater company that uses participatory theater to foster dialogue. Held at the stunning new JB Duke Hotel and Conference Center on Duke University’s wooded campus, this year’s conference focused on current topics relating to the conference theme of “Center Staging: Diversity and Inclusion.”
The group’s central aim is to “unite chief diversity officers, diversity professionals, equal opportunity compliance officers, human resources practitioners and other leaders in the push for change in higher education institutions.” This Year’s Conference Current participating members include NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, UNC-Wilmington, Wake Forest University, UNC-Charlotte, North Carolina Central University and East Carolina University.
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NC DIP is a consortium of public and private North Carolina institutions of higher education, “established to coordinate a statewide network among chief diversity officers, equal opportunity compliance officers, human resources practitioners, experts in multicultural affairs and others in professional roles related to equal opportunity/affirmative action, diversity and inclusion in higher education” according to its website. NC State provides similar functions through its Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity, led by Vice Provost Linda McCabe Smith, with the added components of our four campus community centers (African American Cultural Center, GLBT Center, Multicultural Student Affairs and Women’s Center) and the Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT), both led by Senior Director Reggie Barnes. Reese is also a licensed clinical psychologist and adjunct faculty member in community and family medicine at Duke.Īs at several of the larger North Carolina universities, Reese’s office at Duke oversees diversity, inclusion, affirmative action/equal opportunity and harassment and discrimination prevention activities. Sixteen years after Benjamin Reese worked to organize the first meeting of diversity and inclusion practitioners from North Carolina universities, the annual North Carolina Diversity and Inclusion Partners (NC DIP) conference gathered once again at Duke University, where Reese serves as vice president of Duke University’s Office for Institutional Equity and Duke University Health System and chief diversity officer.