A second strategy is to use connections to the area community as a tool to integrate and enhance campus diversity activities while creating more diversity connections with the community. The following identifies the range of ways that the campus is networked with the community to increase diversity and diversity awareness. Each is a half-day seminar using multiple methodologies. Each focuses on one art experience as a medium for discussion. A stable set of 120 members from the partnering organizations have attended the seminars.
Many students participate as representatives of their employers or in support roles for the project.
The project is a cooperating community seminar with the American Association of Colleges and Universities' American Commitments Initiative on U.S. Pluralism. The faculty from the Williamson College of Business Administration and the Working Class Studies Center have been invited to offer seminars to Ford employees on the automobile industry, the global economy, and diversity. Employees earn two units college credit for the course. It is hoped that YSU will become a regular delivery site for the program. Students are involved in support roles on the project.