Members of the community can soon view presentations on multicultural issues given by faculty and staff from a range of disciplines, including nursing, history, business and education.

Presentations are held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Holmes Student Center, rooms 306 and 406.

These events are the result of the presenters’ participation in the 2013 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute in May.

The institute was designed to promote discussion about multicultural issues, to provide resources for research on multicultural subjects and to offer tenured- and tenure-track faculty, instructors and SPS employees with support for incorporating multicultural perspectives and content into their teaching.

The institute format includes addresses by invited scholars, presentations by faculty, panel discussions, syllabi critiques, videos and group activities that focus on race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexual orientation and disabilities. Participants will be assigned to small groups led by past participants who will moderate discussions and syllabi reviews.

Each participant is required to revise or create a course plan incorporating diversity and to present the project to the public in the fall semester following the institute.

For more information, contact Kristen Myers, chair of the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation, at [email protected], or the committee’s graduate assistant, Carly Seibel, at [email protected].