
New students at the University of Oklahoma are receiving a dose of diversity training designed to help them talk more comfortably about race. The mandatory Diversity Experience Trainings, which began last fall, are part of a series of changes made on the campus after a video of fraternity members singing a racist chant was made public, in March 2015.
Kathleen Wong(Lau), who leads Oklahoma’s Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, designed the five-hour training sessions, which students attend in small groups. They’re based on an intergroup-dialogue program developed by researchers at the University of Michigan and replicated at several other colleges. The first half of the session introduces students to basic principles of respectful dialogue; during the second half, students practice such conversations.
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