Putting Inclusive Definitions of Family into ActionIn this exercise, you will examine some of the ways traditional families are still considered typical, to the exclusion of other varieties.Pretend for a moment that your university or college has a new diversity officer who is responsible for making the school more welcoming and inclusive for all people. One of the officer's first actions is to assemble a task force to examine how inclusive the university is for students with all types of families. You are serving as a student member of the committee. The task force has two charges: (1) to uncover any areas of college life that assume students come from, or are currently part of, a traditional middle-class, nuclear family and (2) to suggest specific changes that will make the school more
inclusive of all family types.The task force must present a report to the diversity officer outlining its findings in relation to the two charges above. As a key member of the task force, your job is to write about one problem and one change in the report.Describe at least one area of campus life that assumes students come from or are currently part of a traditional middle-class, nuclear family.
What will be an ideal response?
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