Journal Reflection

Journal #2
The point of these journal entries is to see how my understanding evolves throughout this course. Looking back at this past month I realized just how many key factors we have covered some that I might have heard of before and others that were brand new to me. Although each and every discussion and reading were important there were two main topics I felt influenced my train of thought the most, privilege, and the impacts of a campus climate.
Privilege
Privilege is a difficult topic to discuss, at least it is for those that are privileged. During the past month we discussed the variety of groups that make up a college campus and the inequalities that they are met with. Over the past month I spent time discussing these inequalities, hearing first hand experiences, and reading about them in Privilege Power, and Difference by Allan Johnson.
I truly enjoyed this book and felt that it was
What was interesting to learn though was how to incorporate our discussions on diversity into developing a campus climate. Although we had several articles that covered the topic I was intrigued by Sherry K Watt’s article Designing and Implementing Multicultural Initiatives: Guiding Principles. In the article Watt provides and discusses “three guiding principles” to developing a multicultural initiative on campus.
I really connected with the idea because she explained how it is important to have a balanced dialogue that incorporates the head, the heart, and the hands. By this she means it is important for students to dive into the topic of diversity through intellectual exploration, emotional consideration, and ultimately analysis and considerations for ways to take action and improve the current multicultural environment. Considering this concept as a student affairs educator I found myself excited about the