Assignment instructions BSN301q:
Required Reading:
U.S. Office of Personnel Management. (2020). Federal equal opportunity recruitment program (FEORP) report: Fiscal year 2018, summary statistics Download Federal equal opportunity recruitment program (FEORP) report: Fiscal year 2018, summary statistics. Compiled from FEORP reports.
Kamarck, K. (2019, June 5). Diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity in the armed services: Background and issues for congress. (Links to an external site.) Washington, DC: CRS Report R44321, 1-5, 12-22 (rest optional).
van den Brook, T. (2020, September 3). Diversity missing in military command (Links to an external site.). USA Today.
King, A. (2013). Women in combat (Links to an external site.). RUSI, 158(1), 4-11.
Military Leadership Diversity Commission. (2011). From representation to inclusion: Diversity leadership for the 21st century military: Executive summary (Links to an external site.). Arlington, VA: Military Leadership Diversity Commission, 5-16 (rest optional).
U.S. Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion. (2020). Recommendations to improve racial and ethnic diversity and inclusion in the U.S. military (Links to an external site.). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 7-11 (rest optional).
Phillips, K. (2017, September 18). How diversity makes us smarter (Links to an external site.). Greater Good Magazine.
You will simply assess how what you have learned this week compares to what you knew previously, and how it might benefit you in your academic and career aspirations.
answer the following:
What did you learn that was new to you, or brought new ideas on familiar topics to you e.g., ethics codes you learned on the job and now in the course; about your own experience with persons from different demographic backgrounds than yourself; times you had productive experiences within uncomfortable settings at first etc.?
Drawing on your own personal and/or professional experiences, what value do you see in a diverse group setting? How have such settings improved group or personal experiences you have had, or not, as you see it or have experienced it?
