Dr. Pamala V. Morris is currently an Assistant Dean/Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and an Associate Professor for the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education, in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University...
Dr. Pamala V. Morris is currently an Assistant Dean/Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and an Associate Professor for the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education, in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University. As faculty, her primary focus is to inform youth and adults, on an international, national and local level, about the changing faces of our global society and to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups. As Dean, she provides leadership in the area of multicultural education for faculty, staff, and students in the college. She developed and implemented two diversity awareness courses that serve as two out of three ways to fulfill a new Multicultural Understanding requirement in the college. Dr. Morris has been actively involved in the National Association for Multicultural Education since 2000. She served as Region 5 Director from 2004-2007 and has served as chair for the NAME Awards Committee for the last four years. In 2002, Dr. Morris was awarded the National Award for Diversity by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the significant impact her diligent work in diversity, international programs and service-learning has made in many Indiana communities. She also currently serves as the Project Leader for eXtension’s virtual Community of Practice (CoP) “Diversity Across Higher Education” this CoP can be accessed at www.extension.org/diversity. In her former life she served for many years in the Indianapolis Public School system as an elementary school teacher and for three years as an elementary school principal.
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Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
