Center for Intercultural Engagement and Student Success, 1984-2015

Collection Overview

Title: Center for Intercultural Engagement and Student Success, 1984-2015

ID: LCA/RG03/Series 17

Creator: Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)

Extent: 5.2 Linear Feet. More info below.

Languages: English [eng]

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Located in the small northeast Iowa town of Decorah, Luther College is an undergraduate liberal arts institution of about 2,500 students. The college is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Founded in 1861 by Norwegian immigrants, Luther offers more than 60 majors and preprofessional and certificate programs leading to the bachelor of arts degree. Its mission statement emphasizes faith, leadership, and community service. Luther College provides equal opportunity for all qualified persons in its educational programs and activities.

Administrative Information

Alternate Extent Statement: 32 boxes

Finding Aid Revision History: 11/30/2018: Updated collection title to reflect the change from Diversity Center to Center for Intercultural Engagement and Student Success.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1: Programs, 1993-2007

Folder 1: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1993
Folder 2: International and Multicultural Students, 1994-1995
Folder 3: Student Organization Handbook, 2006-2007
Folder 4: Diversity Center Groups, 2006
Folder 5: Black History Month, 2003
Folder 6: Annual Report, 2006-2007
Folder 7: Office of Multicultural Students (Diversity Center) Past Events, 1996 - 1997

Box 2: International Student Photos, 1980 - 2010

Folder 1: International Student Body Photos, 1980 - 1987
Folder 2: Orientation Photos, 2009 - 2010
Folder 3: Miscellaneous Photos, 1982 - 1987
Folder 4: Southeast Asian Students, 1983

Box 3: Ethnic Arts Festival Photos, 1988 - 1992

Folder 1: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1988 - 1989
Folder 2: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1991
Folder 3: Ethnic Arts Festival Photos and Negatives, 1992

Box 4: Diversity Center Photos, 1994 - 2010

Folder 1: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1994
Folder 2: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1995
Folder 3: Ethnic Arts Festival, 1996
Folder 4: Diversity Center Photos, Undated
Folder 5: Diversity Center Photos, 1985 - 1996
Folder 6: Diversity Center Photos, 1994 - 1995

Box 5: Diversity Center Photos, 1976 - 2010

Folder 1: Black Cultural Center Photos, 1976 - 1977
Folder 2: Diversity Center Photos, Circa 1990
Folder 3: Diversity Center Photos and Negatives 2004 - 2010
Folder 4: Photo of Luther College International Students, 1989-1990
Folder 5: Photo of Luther College International Students, 1992

Box 6: Black Student Union, 1984-2000

Folder 1: Black Student Union Scrapbook, 1998-1999
Folder 2: Black Student Union Scrapbook, 1984-2000
Folder 3: Black Student Union Scrapbook, 1998-2000

Box 7: Diversity Center Scrapbooks, 1997-2003

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1997
Item 2: Scrapbook of Multicultural Center Events, Black Student Union, Asian Student Association, and Ethnic Arts Festival, 1994-1998
Item 3: Scrapbook of Students and Events, 1998-1999
Item 4: Ethnic Arts Festival and other Luther College Diversity Center Events, Kwanzaa Dinner, Graduation, Summer Programs, Ethnic Arts Festival, Halloween Dinner, Fall Community Talk and Bulgarian Cultural Talk, 1999-2000
Item 5: Scrapbook, Spring Semester, 2001
Item 6: Ethnic Arts Festival Scrapbook, 2001-2003

Box 8: Diversity Center Scrapbooks, 2001-2005

Item 1: Events and Ethnic Arts Festival, 2002-2003
Item 2: Events Scrapbook, 2001-2003
Item 3: Events Scrapbook, 2002
Item 4: Events Scrapbook and Luther College Chips Newspaper Clippings, 2002
Item 5: Events Scrapbook, 2004
Item 6: Luther Students, Ethnic Arts Festival Scrapbook, 2003-2004
Item 7: Ethnic Arts Festival, International Students and Graduation Scrapbook, 2004-2005

Box 9: Diversity Center Scrapbooks and Posters, 1999-2013

Item 1: Diversity Center Events Scrapbook, 2005-2006
Item 2: Student and Events Scrapbook, 2006-2007
Item 3: Events, President's Reception, New International Students, Host Family Potluck, Kwanzaa Dinner Scrapbook, 2007-2008
Item 4: Diversity Center Posters
Item 5: Ethnic Arts Festival, Luther Students and Events Scrapbook, 1999-2000
Item 6: Spring Semester Scrapbook, 1999
Item 7: Orientation and Activity Fair Scrapbook, 2011
Folder 8: Student Portrait Photographs, undated
Folder 9: Photographs, 2012-2013

Box 10: Diversity Council, 2003-2009

Folder 1: Diversity Council Meetings, 2003-2014
Folder 2: Diversity Council Meeting Minutes, 2003-2007
Folder 3: Diversity Council Objectives, 2004-2009
Folder 4: Diversity Council Members, 2004-2008
Folder 5: Diversity Council Agendas, 2004-2008
Folder 6: Diversity Council Reports on Faculty Recruitment, 2012-2013
Folder 7: Diversity Center Service Survey, 2009
Folder 9: Chips Articles, 1992-1995
Folder 8: Scrapbook of Posters and Newpaper Clippings, 2011
Folder 10: Chips Articles, 1996-2001
Folder 11: Chips Articles, 2001-2004
Folder 12: Chips Articles, 2003-2005
Folder 13: Chips Articles, Spring 2011

Box 11: Diversity Center Reports, 2003-2014

Folder 1: Strategic Plans, 2003-2012
Folder 2: Annual Reports, 2003-2012
Folder 3: Research Reports by Faculty and Staff, 2000, 2009

Box 12: Black History Conference, 1984-2014

Folder 1: Newspaper Clippings and Programs, 2004-2013
Folder 2: Black Student Union Commemorative Booklet, 1984
Folder 3: Conference Booklet, 2004
Folder 4: Conference Booklet, 2005
Folder 5: Conference Booklet, 2007
Folder 6: Conference Booklet, 2009
Folder 7: Conference Booklet, 2010
Folder 8: Conference Booklet, 2011
Folder 9: Conference Booklet, 2012
Folder 10: Conference Booklet, 2013
Folder 11: Conference Booklet, 2014

Box 13: Student Diversity Action Coalition, 2005-2007

Folder 1: Coalition Files, 2005-2007

Box 14: Diversity Council, 2003-2010

Folder 1: Council Correspondence and Policy Documents, 2005-2007
Folder 2: Council History, Correspondence and Meeting Minutes, 2003-2007
Folder 3: Council Correspondence, Policy Documents and Meeting Minutes, 2003-2005
Folder 4: Correspondence, Policy Documents, Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2008-2010
Folder 5: Council Correspondence, Policy Documents, Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2008-2009

Box 15: Teagle Grant Materials, 2000-2006

Folder 1: Grant materials, 2000-2006

Box 16: Employment and Campus Diversity Materials, 1992-2007

Folder 1: Background for the Diversity in Employment Statement, 2005
Folder 2: Improving State and Campus Environments for Quality and Diversity Self Assessment, 1992
Folder 3: Positioning Luther for Diversity Program File, 2007

Box 17: Diversity Training Materials, 1993-2013

Folder 1: "Schooling in Jamaica and the U.S." January Term Course, 2011
Folder 2: Resident Assistant Training Materials, 2003-2013
Folder 3: Summer Faculty Workshop: Pedagogy and Diversity, 2004
Folder 4: International and New Student Orientation Materials, 2008-2009
Folder 5: Student Worker Orientation Materials, 2008-2009
Folder 6: "Diversity Works" Training Session, 2000
Folder 7: Cultural Diversity Training Program for Staff, 1993-1996

Box 18: Diversity Center Files, 1981-2014

Box 19: Subject Files, 2003-2012

Folder 1: Black History Month Conference, 2012
Folder 2: College Ministries and Diversity Center Partnership, undated
Folder 3: Buddy Program, 2005-2006
Folder 4: Diversity Center Blessing, 2003
Folder 5: School and Outreach Programs, Circa 2004
Folder 6: Native American Indian Heritage Month, 2004-2007
Folder 7: Program Review, 2007-2008
Folder 8: Black History Month Conferences, 2008-2011
Folder 9: Black History Month Conferences, 2004-2007

Box 20: Diversity Center Files, 1981 - 2014

Folder 1: Synergy Newsletters, 2006-2011
Folder 2: Synergy Newsletters, 2002-2006
Folder 3: Chips Articles and Diversity Events, 2005 - 2009
Folder 4: Diversity Center Graduation Banquet Invitations, 1994 - 2008
Folder 5: Diversity Center Program Brochures, 2003 - 2014
Folder 6: Newspaper Articles about International Students, 1987 - 2014
Folder 7: Events Posters, 1991 - 2014
Folder 8: Diversity Center Events, 1994 - 2011
Folder 9: Journey Conversations and Interfaith Cooperation, 2009 - 2014
Folder 10: Student Groups and Organizations, 1984 - 2010
Folder 11: Staff Meeting Minutes, 2005 - 2013
Folder 12: Diversity Audit, 2002 - 2003
Folder 13: Program Proposals, 2001 - 2008
Folder 14: Grant Proposals, 1999 - 2010
Folder 15: Policy Documents, 2004 - 2014
Folder 16: Correspondence, 1981 - 2014
Folder 17: Luther Multicultural Center History, 1988 - 1994
Folder 18: Multimedia Files, 1999 - 2013
Folder 19: Diversity Center Annual Report, 2013-2014
Folder 20: Diversity Center Information Packet, 2004
Folder 21: 12th Annual Black History Symposium Program and CD, 11 February 2015
Folder 22: Diversity Center Annual Report, 2009-2010
Folder 23: Diversity Center Annual Report, 2010-2011
Folder 24: Diversity Center Annual Report, 2011-2012
Folder 25: Ethnic Arts Festival Passport, 2006

Box 21: Teagle Grant Materials and Urban Mathematics Collaborative Project, 1984 - 2006

Folder 1: Urban Mathematics Collaborative Project, 1984
Folder 2: Teagle Survey Results, 1999
Folder 3: Teagle Survey Questionnaire Preliminary Results, 1999
Folder 4: Teagle Project Results, 1997 - 2001
Folder 5: Teagle Survey Preliminary Results, undated
Folder 6: Teagle Correspondence, 1998 - 2000
Folder 7: Teagle Articles in Agora, 2000 - 2006
Folder 8: Teagle Partnership Files, 1998 - 2001
Folder 9: Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) Urban Experience, 2000
Folder 10: Diversity in Rural America - Teagle, 2000
Folder 11: Diversity Articles and Reports, 1995 - 1998
Folder 12: Diversity Center Staff, 2005
Folder 13: Lilly Grant Files, 1993 - 1995
Folder 14: Diversity Report, 1989 - 1998
Folder 15: Diversity Center Floor Plans and Correspondence, 2004
Folder 16: News Releases, 2004 - 2006
Folder 17: Black History Month and Conference, 2005 - 2012
Folder 18: Kwanzaa, 2005
Folder 19: Grant Brochures and Pamphlets, 2005 - 2007
Folder 20: Photographs, circa 1992
Folder 21: Nobel Laureates of African Descent: Transforming the Discourse of the Dispossessed in World Politics, 2005

Box 22: Program Reviews, 2008 - 2014

Folder 1: Program Review, 2008
Folder 2: Program Review, 2008 - 2009
Folder 3: Progam Review, 2013 - 2014

Box 23: Diversity Center Files, 1991-2002

Folder 1: Multicultural Center Awards, 2000
Folder 2: Proposals and Plans, 1991-2002
Folder 3: Correspondence and Memorandum, 1993-2001
Folder 4: Annual Survey and Reports, 1993-2001
Folder 5: Job Description and Committee Minutes, 1993-2002

Box 24: Programs, 2003-2004

Folder 1: The Strategic Planning Process, 2003-2004
Folder 2: Summer Faculty Workshop: Pedagogy and Diversity, 2004

Box 25: Black History Conference, Multimedia, 2008-2015

Item 01: Tape: Black history Month Opening Lecture, 2005
Item 02: BHC Closing Lecture, 2005
Item 03: BHM Session 3, 2005
Item 4: Tape: BHC Session 2, 2005
Item 5: Tape: BHC Session 1, 2005
Item 6: Tape: Hal Chase "Outside In: Blacks in Iowa", 2006
Item 7: Tape: "Through the Looking Glass: Understanding Black Nobel Laureates" Panel 3, 2006
Item 8: Tape: Dr Wilson Fallin Jr "Martin Luther King Jr: A Leader in the Struggle to Transform the Dispossessed", 2006
Item 9: Tape: Dr Withney Harris, 2006
Item 10: Tape: Sheree R. Thomas, 2007
Item 11: Tape: Herman b. White, 2007
Item 12: Tape: Lisa Cook, 2007
Item 13: Tape: Paxton Williams, 2007
Item 14: Verona Mitchell-Agbemadt, Jason Stonerook, 2007
Item 15: Tape:Paxton Williams, 2007
Item 16: Tape: Herman B. White, 2007
Item 17: Tape: Verona Mitchell-Agbemadi, 2007
Item 18: Tape: Sheree R. Thomas, 2007
Item 19: Tape: Lisa Cook, 2007
Item 20: Tape: B.H.C. Panel 1, 2008
Item 21: Tape: Plenary Session, T. Tyson, 2008
Item 22: Tape: B.H.C. Visual Art- R. Thomas, 2008
Item 23: Tape: B.H.C. 1, 2008
Item 24: CD: BHM Conference, Lisa Cook, 2007
Item 25: BHM Conference, Herman B. White, 2007
Item 26: Dr Jonathan Bass "Blessed are the Peaceful", 2007
Item 27: CD: Dr Sandra Shannon "On August Wilson", 2007
Item 28: CD: TJ Desch-Obi "Fighting in the Dark", 2007
Item 29: CD: Chapel Service, Guy Nave, 2007
Item 30: Black History Conference Panel, 2010
Item 31: CD: Lou Bellamy, "Playing in the dark", 2010
Item 32: CD: Black History Conference's Tribute to August Wilson, 2010
Item 33: CD: Lou Bellamy, Black History Conference, 2010
Item 34: CD: Owen Mordaunt, Joy Birens, 2010
Item 35: CD: Paul Allen Williams and Charlotte Kunkel's Lecture, 2008
Item 36: CD: Black History Conference's Opening and Tribute to Mahalia Jackson, 2008
Item 37: CD: Farah Jasmine Griffin, 2009
Item 38: CD: Dorothy Roberts BHC, 2013
Item 39: CD: Dobson, Merritt, Hurley, Dixson BHM, 2013
Item 40: CD: Tribute to Lena Horne, 2013
Item 41: CD: Dorothy Roberts, 2013
Item 42: CD: Black history Conference, 2012
Item 43: CD: BHM Conference, Student Panel, 2012
Item 44: CD: "Incarceration and Justice in the Tri-State Area", 2012
Item 45: CD: BHM Conference, "Panel: Black English and Black History- True or False?", 2012
Item 46: CD: BHM Conference Language, Ideology and Disadvantage, 2012
Item 47: CD: BHC: "Faith and Movement" by Guy Nave, 2009
Item 48: CD: BHC CRH Panel Discussion, 2014
Item 49: CD: BHC Postville Remembrance in the Union, 2008
Item 50: CD: BHM Speaker Douglas Hartman, 2014
Item 51: CD: BHM Verona Mitchell-agbema, 2007

Box 26: Student Lists and Other Files, 1989-2004

Folder 1: Student Lists, 1989-1990
Folder 2: Student Lists, 1992-1993
Folder 3: Student Lists, 1993-1994
Folder 4: Student Lists, 1995-1996
Folder 5: Student Lists, 1996-1997
Folder 6: Student Lists, 1997-1998
Folder 7: Student Lists, 1998-1999
Folder 8: Student Lists, 2000-2001
Folder 9: Student Lists, 2002-2003
Folder 10: Student Lists, 2004
Folder 11: Misc. Diversity Center Lists and Files, 1989-2004

Box 27: Subject Files, 1993-2009

Folder 1: Handbooks, 1993
Item 1: Summer Faculty Workshop Pedagogy and Diversity Binder, 2004
Item 2: LDC Surveys Binder, 2009
Item 3: Diversity Center Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events Binder, 2005-2006
Item 4: Diversity Center Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events Binder, 2006-2007
Folder 2: Black History Month Conference Proposal, 2003
Folder 3: Midwest Regional Black History Month Conference, 2004
Folder 4: Midwest Regional Black History Month Conference, 2005
Folder 5: Midwest Regional Black History Month Conference, 2007
Folder 6: Valuing Diversity: Promoting Educational Excellence, 2005
Folder 7: Program Model, 2007
Folder 8: LDC Scorecard, Definition of Diversity, and Toward a Diversity-Competent Institution Report, 2007
Folder 9: Valuing Diversity: Promoting Educational Excellence, 2007
Folder 10: Program Review Summary, 2008
Folder 11: Diversity Center Annual Report, 2007-2008
Folder 12: Diversity Center Events, 2007-2008
Folder 13: New Faculty Orientation, Undated
Folder 14: My Soul Looks Back: Music and Memory in the Black Experience, 2008
Folder 15: The Strategic Planning Process, 2003-2004
Folder 16: Summer Faculty Workshop: Pedagogy & Diversity, 2004
Folder 17: Financial Resources, 2008-2009
Folder 18: Background for the Diversity in Employment Statement, 2004-2005
Folder 19: Statement for Responsibility for the Security and Confidentiality of Data in the Information Systems of Luther College, Undated
Folder 20: Basic Response Plan: Student Death, Undated
Folder 21: Misc. Diversity Center Files, Undated
Folder 22: Message for Hazel G. Rountree, 2006
Folder 23: Staff Handbook, Undated
Folder 24: Ethnic Arts Negatives, 1996
Folder 25: Program Files, 2007-2008
Folder 26: Program Files, 2006-2008
Folder 27: Journey Conversations, 2011
Folder 28: Ethnic Arts Poster, 2006

Box 28: Ethnic Arts Framed Festival Posters, 1987-2000

Item 1: Framed Ethnic Art Festival Poster, 1999
Item 2: Framed Ethnic Art Festival Poster, 2000
Item 3: Ethnic Arts Festival Poster, 1991
Item 4: Framed Ethnic Arts Festival Poster, 1987
Item 5: Framed Ethnic Arts Festival Poster, 1990

Box 29: Photographs, 1987-2008

Folder 1: Photos, n.d.
Folder 2: Miscellaneous Negatives, 1987-2001
Folder 3: Misc. Group Photos, 1987-2001
Folder 4: Photos, 1994
Folder 5: Photos, 1999-2000
Folder 6: Photos, 2000-2001
Folder 7: Photos, 2002
Folder 8: Photos, 2003-2004
Folder 9: Photos, 2004-2005
Folder 10: Photos, 2005-2007
Folder 11: Photos, 2007-2008
Folder 12: Graduation Photos, n.d.
Folder 13: Miscellaneous, n.d.

Box 30: New Students/Ethnic Arts Photo Album, 1994-1998

Folder 1: Photo Album (1 of 3), 1994-1998
Folder 2: Photo Album (2 of 3), 1994-1998
Folder 3: Photo Album (3 of 3), 1994-1998

Box 31: Diversity Center, 2015

Folder 1: Black History Symposium, 2015
Folder 2: Event Fliers, 2013-2015
Folder 3: Synergy Letter, 1992
Folder 4: Telling Our Stories Project Release Form, 2003-2004
Folder 5: Student Support Services/ Diversity Center Retention Initiative, 2004
Folder 6: International Recruiting Context and Strategies, 2005-2008
Folder 7: Student Persistance Initiative, 2004
Folder 8: American Ethnic Minority Student Recruitment Plan, 1995
Folder 9: Project Descriptions, 2003-2009
Folder 10: Diversity Center Mission Statement, n.d.
Folder 11: Climate for Diversity, 1995-1996
Folder 12: Diversity Center Records Retention, 2014
Folder 13: Conversations Across Difference, 2008
Folder 14: Postcards, 2006,2015
Folder 15: Correspondence, 2013
Folder 16: Holiday Decor, n.d.
Folder 17: Round Table Room, 2006
Folder 18: Luther College International Student Body Photograph, 1980-1981
Folder 19: Diversity Center Activities Photographs, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Folder 20: Photographs, 2007-2011,n.d.
Item 1: Lunar NY, 2013
Item 2: Black History Conference: Dorothy Robeits, 2013
Item 3: Black History Symposium: David Epstein, 2/19/2014
Item 4: Black History Conference: Plenary Lecture, 2/6/2013
Item 5: Black History Month Conference: Paxton Williams, February 16-17, 2007
Item 6: Ethnic Festival Pt 2, 2013
Item 7: Ethnic Arts, 2015
Item 8: Ethnic Fest 2, n.d.
Item 9: Ethnic Fest 2, n.d.
Item 10: Black History Conference. Conference Luncheon: The Arts and Sciences of Movement., 2/27/2009
Item 11: Black History Conference. Conference Luncheon: Arts and Sciences of Movement., 2/27/2009
Item 12: Not available, n.d.
Item 13: Culture Kits, n.d.
Item 14: Paideia: Black History Lecture- Fasah Jasmine Griffin, 2/27/2009
Item 15: Haitian Folkloric Dance (song), n.d.
Item 16: Eye on the Prige 2,00 menules, n.d.
Item 17: Telling Our Stories: Ly Mai
Item 18: Luther Testimonies Project, 7/2003
Item 19: Luther Testimonies full copy original, 5/2003
Item 20: International students 2001, n.d.
Item 21: International Students, 2008-2009
Item 22: International Students, 2013
Item 23: International Students, 2010-2011

Box 32: Diversity Center Records

Folder 1: Ethnic Arts Food, 2005
Folder 2: Ethnic Arts Food Recipes (1 of 2), 2008
Folder 3: Ethnic Arts Food Recipes (2 of 2), 2008
Folder 4: Ethnic Arts Recipe
Folder 5: Jamaica J. Term, 2013
Folder 6: LDC Groups Minutes, 2002-2013: Includes histories and minutes from several student organizations, including Luther College Diversity Center Student Senate Board, Student Diversity Action Coalition, Black Student Union, Beta Theta Omega, MSAA, ISAA, and Aware/actOUT/Pride.
Folder 7: Notebook Record
Folder 8: Commencement Weekend Notebook, 5/2007
Folder 9: Notebook, 2010-2011
Folder 10: Newspaper
Folder 11: LDC Student Senate Rep Board, 2004-2006
Folder 12: LDC Visitor Book
Folder 13: Sylvia Gift Nabukeera, 2006-2010
Folder 14: Nana Kwasi (Nabby) Baffour - Awuah, 2007 - 2011
Folder 15: Resource Guide, 2006-2007
Folder 16: Luther College Diversity Center