BACKGROUND

UTC Student
Demographics Count
White 7,846

African
American
1,126
Incoming Freshmen Mallory Burman, TriDereka Hall, Sara Leach and Queenie Webb
Asian 220 2016: 2,077 enrolled
Hispanic 362 Fall 2016 Retention University of Tennessee Chattanooga Honors College
American 23
Rate: 74% students Advisors: Dr. Courtney Crittenden & Dr. Christina Policastro
Indian returned
CAMPUS RESOURCES FUTURE STEPS
UTC is a university that recognizes
diversity. We would like to express the importance
of this idea during the honors college orientation.
The demographics above show the basic
differences between UTC students as a whole.
With these findings, my group and I have decided
to think a little deeper. It is important that we, as a
community, recognize not only the big differences M ulticultural The Womens Spectrum
but the small ones as well. Why is all this Center Center
important? Hours of operation:
Location: Room 352 M , W, F: 8:00am- Aim: Spectrum is
University Center 5:00pm UTC's L GBTQQIA
With the rise of incoming freshman, it is T, R: 8:00am-10:00pm organization and is
Hours of Operation:
essential for them to know how diversity can make M , W, F: 8:00am- both an activist and
5:00pm
you successful from just simply having an open T & R: 8:00 am-10:00pm Aim: committed to social group. They
creating a community meet every
mind. Getting involved into whatever you Wednesday
of diverse and
love/desire makes you different, so wed like to Aim: To enhance the empowered students throughout the
shed light on some of the campus resources; such academic, social, through the following semester at 8PM in
personal, and core values: the Ocoee Room,
as, the Multicultural Center, Womens Center, professional which is located on
awareness,
Advocacy initiative, SPECTRUM, etc. that can development of all activism/ advocacy, the third foor of the
students through University Center.
give one a unique perspective of life on campus. collaboration,
programming, support leadership, and
We believe students should feel safe with who they and activities. community.
are, and finding the right campus resource to
confide in can help create a safe-haven for new and
current students. We want our community to know
that being different is okay.

ORGANIZATION
Icebreaker:
Our section of the orientation will begin with a
UTC Counseling
short video and an icebreaker activity that will be
Center
based off of the video that will be watched. In the Location: Room 338
video, the participants are placed into boxes, to University Center
show how they are often categorized or stereotyped, Hours of Operation:
M onday-Friday:
but then goes to show how many similarities the 9:00am-5:00pm
participants share. Counselor on-call 24/ 7
(423-425-4357)
Students will be arranged in a circle and will
be asked thirteen questions, that will range from Aim: Offers counseling to
lighthearted materials, like have you been to a better help students
during their time at the
baseball game? to more serious questions like university. Among the
services provided is
have you felt discrimination based on your gender,
individual and group
race, beliefs, etc.?. By basing our icebreaker off of counseling and referrals
for future treatments that
the experiment in the video, students will be able to are not available at the
realize the similarities that brings them and their university.
peers together in their living environment.
CONCLUSION AND GOALS
Disability Disability
Resource Center Resource Center
Our goal for orientation is to teach students how to
Location: Room 108
University Center respect each others differences. Most of the incoming
This is an advocacy
program that enables freshmen are from small towns in Tennessee, and have
students to become
trained within Step Up,
not been exposed to a lot of diversity. Therefore, when
Disability Resource, they come to college it is a whole new world to them.
Green Zone, and Safe
Zone. Once trained, UTC is a diverse campus, therefore it is important to
students will earn
Aim: The DRC staff will
buttons that can be teach incoming freshman about diversity. Another goal
establish an opportunity
for the student and DRC
displayed on their
of ours for orientation is to teach the freshmen about
backpacks, showing
staff to engage in an
their peers that those the many resources our campus offers, such as
interactive process to
determine eligibility for
students are trained
services and reasonable
advocates in those areas. SPECTRUM, the Multicultural center, the Womens
accommodations, as center, and Counseling services. We will be handing
needed.
out brochures detailing each of these centers and the
services they provide.