{"id":23743,"date":"2019-11-14T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2019-11-14T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:57:41","slug":"kali-furman-resident-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2019\/11\/14\/kali-furman-resident-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kali Furman, Resident Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the month of August, the Resident Scholar Program\nat the Special Collections & Archives Research Center hosted Kali Furman, a\nPhD candidate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies here at Oregon State\nUniversity. During her term of residence, Furman conducted a case study\nanalysis of the formation of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination program\nat Oregon State University. The program was instituted by the university in the\n1990s to promote diversity and social justice education in response to a string\nof racist incidents involving Oregon State students. While conducting the case\nstudy, Furman focused on what historical, contextual, and institutional factors\ncome together to enable critical social justice education programs to take root\nand find success in higher education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kali Furman at the OSU Leadership Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Furman\u2019s presentation of her research, titled \u201cStudent\nActivism and Institutional Change: A History of the Difference, Power, and\nDiscrimination Program,\u201d provided an overview of the social climate on Oregon\nState\u2019s campus and the surrounding Corvallis community in the 1990s. Furman\nspecifically documented a span of a few days in 1990, when multiple students of\ncolor were verbally assaulted by white students, leading to public protests and\nother forms of unrest on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OSU President John Byrne responded to these\nhigh-profile incidents by tasking a commission to investigate them and to provide\nhim with recommendations for moving the university forward. Furman\u2019s research\nindicates that student leaders were not satisfied with this course of action,\nand that they demanded that the university implement required coursework\nrelated to issues of multiculturalism and diversity. Initially the administration\nwas slow in its adoption of this idea, but by the 1991-92 school year, the\nAffirming Diversity Course Development Committee had been formed, which\nultimately grew into the Difference, Power, and Discrimination program that\nexists at OSU to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creation of the program was a major success for student\nleaders and concerned faculty, but obstacles remained throughout the course of\nthe decade. In particular, budget cuts enacted for the 1997-98 academic year\nthreatened the existence of the program, which again caused protests and\ndissatisfaction among the student body. This time around, both students and the\ncommunity rallied around the DPD program, publicly expressing their feelings\nabout the value that the program brought to the student experience and the broader\nculture of Oregon State University. In response to this outcry, the OSU Provost\u2019s\nOffice provided interim budget support for the program, which finally received more\nstable funding in 2002. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nearly thirty years now, the Difference, Power,\nand Discrimination program at Oregon State University has worked to develop a\ncomprehensive curriculum that promotes diversity and social justice, while\naddressing institutionalized systems of inequity. A component of the\nuniversity\u2019s Baccalaureate Core, the DPD program also sponsors guest speakers, film festivals, informal workshops\nand seminars, and other special events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the month of August, the Resident Scholar Program at the Special Collections & Archives Research Center hosted Kali Furman, a PhD candidate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies here at Oregon State University. During her term of residence, Furman conducted a case study analysis of the formation of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1345946],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-resident-scholar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/23746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}