Citizenship and Social Change Panel, May 20, 2003

0:00:00 Video start 0:00:13 Film opens to a silhouetted speaker introducing a program, Citizenship and Social Change, location unknown 0:02:40 Guest panel (Denise Campbell, Harry (?), ?, Tiffany Hamilton, Alice Anderson(?), ?, Paul Zang, ?, David Colin) begins introducing themselves 0:04:40 Students begin presenting a video montage of student diversity and their perceptions (video is skipped in this video) 0:05:56 Camera angle switches 0:07:35 Professor explains that they are here to show what programs they provide for student wellbeing 0:07:55 Camera angle switches, a second professor announces they will also be giving a year in review 0:10:18 Discusses the recent importance of transgender discrimination and compares it to racial discrimination 0:10:45 Switches to third professor, expanding on current projects they're working on regarding grant and grant funding 0:13:55 Camera angle switches to council on Student Success, discussing their efforts towards diversity and student success despite struggling with change in the face of tradition 0:17:00 Discusses co-curricular features of student success 0:19:09 Second member of Student Success council begins speaking on their efforts working with students to find the right major 0:25:20 Speaks on the creation of a diversity task force 0:26:45 Council on University Citizenship begins to speak on the responsibility of leaders at Cal Poly, and how it plays a role in serving diversity and inclusion 0:34:15 Mic is passed to second member of University Citizenship Council, who speaks on subcommittes of Academic Responsibility and what those committees need to do in the future to succeed 0:37:00 Q&A session is opened; man in the audience asks other audience members what ideas they may have to make Cal Poly more inclusive 0:41:20 Student argues that programs like the SSC and MCC are not utilized, and that there is not really this semblence of a Cal Poly community as the speakers romanticize, exemplifying the fact that they couldn't even fill a 60 seat auditorium for a diversity talk when the school has 23,000 0:48:10 Student chimes in on how professors should create more space for open discussions on these issues 0:52:20 Student discusses how he believes the majority-white population at Cal Poly don't realize there is a diversity issues on campus 0:55:30 Professor begins discussion on how change is better made slowly, rather than all at once 1:01:30 Another professor begins to speak on importnace of getting out of our comfort zones to combat these issues, starting a discussion on how we should face these issues 1:06:32 Student on panel interjects, asking what tangible next steps can be taken to accomplish these goals 1:21:20 Student chimes in on how the Academic Affairs side of student diversity and inclusion efforts is not talked about enough 1:25:15 Presentation is brought to an end, applause 1:25:29 Film cuts to static 1:27:10 End video