Jack Ling

 

Monday, February 6
Jack T.F. Ling
Location: 1 - 2:30 pm at Student Union Theatre

Holistic Diversity:  A Black-White Paradigm

A Black-White Paradigm: An Untended Model For an Exclusionary American Identity? Dr. Ling will explore the intended and unintended impact of defining diversity in terms of a Black-White paradigm for a growing multi-racial and multi-ethnic nation. His talk will also examine how a black-white political paradigm arguably contradicts the spirit of diversity and inclusion, and the legal mandate of the Bakke Decision, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity; and potentially promotes an American identity that grants privilege and primacy to individuals classified as white or black, potentially marginalizing other traditionally underrepresented minorities in the United States. He will argue for an inclusive excellence model that values the inclusion of diversities as an integral and inevitable component of educational excellence in a global and civil society.

Jack T. F. Ling, a Chinese American, received his Ph.D. in Clinical-Social Psychology from Duquesne University.  He was a student of noted Existential-Phenomenological Psychologists and Psychiatrists as Viktor Frankl, Adrian Van Kaam, Amadeo Giorgi, and Jan Van Den Berg. In addition to his training in Psychology, Jack studied Campus and Civil Rights Law. He also attended Prof. Derek Bell’s NYU Summer Law Program on Critical Legal Race Theory. 

Currently, Dr. Jack T. F. Ling is Executive Director of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at University of Dayton. Jack advices the President and the Provost on ways to institutionalize Diversity; and he also works directly with other academic and administrative leaders on diversifying faculty and staff hiring, intercultural and interdisciplinary curricular and co-curricular change/collaborations, and oversees the Institution’s Bias Related Incidents reporting and review process. Regularly, Jack teaches in academic areas that can benefit from his diverse professional training and experience. He continues to teach, write, and publish in topics related to Asian American Studies, Diversity and Inclusion, Organizational Change, Existential-Phenomenological Psychology, and Classical Chinese Philosophical Thought.