Diversity & Inclusion: Infrastructural Change

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  Diversity & Inclusion: Infrastructural Change

  Course Title: Diversity & Inclusion: Infrastructural Change 

  Description:  Diversity and Inclusion are among the topics most discussed in health professions relative to access and opportunities, but rarely given time, attention, and resources to the infrastructural changes needed to achieve the goals therein. This session will discuss infrastructural challenges and describe impactful changes that can provide more access and opportunity for those historically underrepresented and underserved in the health professions.

  Learning objectives: 

  Participants will be able to:

  1.    identify institutional barriers,

  2.    describe how to achieve institutional diversity & inclusion,

  3.    and create equitable pathways for access and opportunity

  Instructor:  Clinton Normore is the Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion. Clinton leads a university-wide diversity effort, encompassing ATSU’s seven graduate health professions schools on campuses in Kirksville, Missouri, Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Maria, California, and an online school of graduate health studies. This work also touches community health centers nationwide. Clinton works with faculty, staff, students, deans, and leadership at the University’s highest levels in support of ATSU’s mission of providing healthcare to the underserved and serving on many University committees. Mr. Normore was a National Institution on Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) Scholar in 2015. He is a trained Civil Rights Investigator and is a certified Campus Security Authority (CSA). Since joining the ATSU community, Clinton has been instrumental in developing a framework for diversity and a diversity strategic plan. Under his leadership, the University was the first Health Professions University to receive the coveted Higher Education in Excellence (HEED) Award in 2017, and consecutively the next five years. The university has also trademarked its award-winning Dreamline Pathways™ program and received numerous other grants and awards for diversity. Since August 2014, he has been a faculty member of ATSU’s Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health and in 2020 with the ATSU Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health. The university was awarded the 2022 National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) Excellence in Diversity award for a professional school. Clinton has also served as an Instructor in the Business Department of Phoenix College and is a Lead Consultant for Ben Harrison & Associates on its community policing initiative providing workshops for police departments in Arizona. He chairs the ATSU Advisory Council On Diversity (ACOD) and serves on many University level committees and task forces.

This course will meet the new Oregon state licensee requirement for 1 CE of cultural competency training.  

The Oregon Academy of Audiology has submitted for approval by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of  0.1 CEUs (0.1 CEU per session). Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy's Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.