DDGs have been extremely popular and successful in the past and promise to be even more so as we move forward. To make the program successful in influencing individuals and enhancing the work environment, it is essential that all Ames personnel commit to the program and consider active participation.
Some history is instructive.
The MLC is an Ames advisory organization dedicated to promoting the full utilization of Ames' multicultural work force. It is diverse in its makeup and proactive in its style. The MLC consists of Ames employees at all levels, across disciplines and organizations, who have joined together to address centerwide issues. The MLC promotes programs designed to move the Center toward a system that demonstrates the value of diversity in all of its forms. One of the MLC's major projects was to establish phase one of the Diversity Dialogue Groups at the Center in 1994.