Intergroup Dialogue Program Expansion OHRP draws on five sources, based on the collaborative relationships that it has established across campus, to secure student participation in the IDs:

Existing Relationships with Academic Departments

OHRP relies on established collaborative relationships with academic departments which have already referred, or have expressed interest in referring, students studying in their departments to the IDs. These departments include, but are not limited to, American Studies, Women's Studies, Afro-American Studies, Comparative Literature, Education Policy and Leadership, Family Studies, as well as the Academy of Leadership and College Park Scholars.

New Relationships with CORE Human Cultural Diversity Curricula Faculty

OHRP also recruits students into the IDs via the CORE Human Cultural Diversity Curricula component of the CORE Liberal Arts and Sciences Studies Program. Maryland requires all students to take at least one class that has been approved as a CORE Human Cultural Diversity course. Several faculty who teach these courses express interest every semester in providing ID opportunities to their students as a supplement to their courses. OHRP works with these faculty to make participation in one or more of the IDs one of several optional or required learning activities for their courses, in the vein of a lab experience.

Existing Relationships with Non-Academic Units

OHRP relies on campus units and constituencies who have already referred, or who have expressed interest in referring, their Graduate Assistants and/or undergraduate work study students for the IDs. For example, the Department of Resident Life has made the IDs an optional component of the training for prospective Resident Assistants.

New Relationships with Student Groups and Staff Units

OHRP continues to deepen its relationships with student groups and staff units that include, but are not limited to, the Student Government Association (SGA), student honor societies, and Campus Recreational Services in order to recruit participants who are not taking courses in, or employed in areas, that routinely refer students to the IDs.

New Markets

OHRP targets a new academic department, non-academic unit, and/or student group each semester in an attempt to make the ID series available to more and more students. For example, in the Fall of the second semester of the program, OHRP made the IDP available to the instructors of UNIV 100/101 classes (the first-year student orientation courses taken by most students during their start at Maryland). The following semester, OHRP worked through the fraternities and sororities and targeted special courses taken by their presidents.

For-Credit IDs

Students may enroll in an ID for a single credit beginning in the Fall of 2001. By the Fall of 2002, a single-credit ID may be integrated into the coursework for the Diverse Community Studies citation program.

For more information on the student IDP, to obtain a copy of the 1999 focus-group study report, to become a part of the student IDP expansion process, or to enroll in a student ID, please contact the Coordinator of the Student Intercultural Programs ohrp-silc@umd.edu

To learn to facilitate a student ID, please enroll in the Diversity Leadership Internship Program. The IDP is made possible with generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.