UW+Oshkosh+and+Diversity

=The first COLS meeting to address diverse students' performance in the gateway courses introduced instructors to the important idea of revising the common response of deficit thinking--blaming students of color themselves if they do not succeed in the gateway courses--when considering the issue of the high failure rate of students of color. Greg Lampe of the UW Colleges provided insight into common myths held among instructors about who or what is to blame for the high DFW rate among students of color. In turn, he provided us with an alternative and positive model by which to address inequities in the gateway courses. His powerpoint is available here:﻿=

= = = = =Data and results from the Equity Scorecard for UW Oshkosh are available here:=



=﻿Data and results from the Campus Climate Study for UW Oshkosh are available here:=