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Fostering Intergroup Dialogue on Campus: Essential Ingredients (1398 words) |
 | Intergroup dialogue programs are based on the premise that sustained and meaningful intergroup contact, dialogue, and education are necessary to address issues of conflict and to promote the creation of just, multicultural campus communities. |
| Intergroup dialogues typically include twelve to sixteen participants (with roughly equal numbers from each social identity group) and two trained student facilitators of diverse backgrounds representing the social identity groups in dialogue. |
| Intergroup dialogues offered within the regular academic curriculum (unlike those offered on a volunteer basis in residence halls and through student organizations) have the advantage of allowing for sequencing of learning objectives and activities to support sustained and informed dialogue over a longer period of time. |
| What is a DRA Intergroup (2540 words) |
| If an Intergroup were to be run by only one or two people, careful planning and consideration must be given to what happens to the Intergroup, and its image in the community, should one or two of those Intergroup staffers relapse or have a serious flare-up of psychiatric symptoms. |
| Intergroups may coordinate special functions such as pot-lucks, picnics, or dances with a secondary agreed upon purpose of utilizing any extra monies generated by the event to support the activities of the Intergroup. |
| Intergroups may hold Group Conscience meetings to decide such things as what is their “prudent reserve” and what percentage of revenues, if any, to send on up the the DRA Service Network. |
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