Diversity

The Diversity Department is composed of students, parents and faculty members who recognize that human diversity is defined not only by culture and ethnicity, but also by gender, religion, economic status, intellectual and physical capabilities and numerous other characteristics. 

Boys Division Director              Girls Division Director
Christina Vela                              Lindsay Glasscock 
303.269.8065                               303.269.8137

We are committed to two overarching goals:

• To promote the school-wide recognition and appreciation of human diversity while embracing and celebrating our shared experiences.
• To promote the five principles from the Profile of the Graduate at Graduation:
  - Open to Growth
  - Intelluctually Competent
  - Religious
  - Loving
  - Committed to Doing Justice
  
  
• We aim to achieve these goals with programming that, throughout the academic year, will:
  
  - Demonstrate for our students the benefits of a broad world view and the ability to see from another's perspective (Open to Growth, Loving)
  - Promote empathy and reservation of judgment when interacting with others (Open to Growth, Loving, Committed to Justice)
  - Instill among our students a curiosity for new ideas (Open to Growth, Intellectually Competent, Loving)
  - Help our students recognize and overcome personal prejudices and culturally-ingrained stereotypes, so that they may more readily cherish human differences (Religious, Loving) 
  - Build in students an awareness of the effects that their words and actions can have on other (Intellectually Competent, Loving)  
  - Guide our students to respect the personal faith journeys and collective faith traditions of all people and encourage them learn from these differences as they find their own path (Religious, Open to Growth)
  - Educate our students on cultural, societal, individual and other types of diversity (Intellectually Competent)
  - Celebrate the rich variety of ideas, culture, religion, and people existing in our community and world today (Open to Growth, Loving)
  - Provide Regis Jesuit teachers tools to do all of the above in their classrooms (Intellectually Competent, Committed to Justice, Loving)

Diversity Calendar

Student Organizations

Parent Organizations

Lunchtime Speaker Series

Over the last five years, we have established a very successful Diversity Conference for our students that exposes them to a very large number of perspectives. However, we feel that just one day is not enough time. Diversity is in so much more than can be seen in just one day; it is in everything that we do, and we want to allow our students the opportunity to see that.

For that reason, last year we started a program called the Regis Jesuit Lunchtime Speaker Series that will continue again this year. We bring in a speaker every few weeks to deal with a topic that can be matched to our curriculum. Our teachers often request different topics for us to address throughout the year that match the issues they are touching on in class. Our goal is to make diversity a more integral part of our daily lives and show the students that it is something that is not just to be contained to and discussed in a classroom.

As they were last year, students will be exposed to many perspectives throughout the year. We will have speaker sessions that deal with topics that focus on the barriers placed between people and to discuss how we can break them down. Themes will include discussions of ethnicity, culture, socio-economic status, immigration, language, religion and gender issues.

Speakers that have visited us thus far this year have included: Jan Brennan (Denver’s Office of Cultural Affairs), Eric Cahn (Child Holocaust Survivor), Nestor Tejada (Immigrant from the Dominican Republic), Chloe Lever (on immigration from England), representative of Musana Children’s Home (an orphanage in Uganda).

Contact Us
For questions or more information, please contact Chris Vela, Diversity Director in the Boys Division or Lindsay Glasscock in the Girls Division.

Multicultural Resources

Teaching Tolerance: A web project of the southern poverty law center devoted to fighting hate and promoting tolerance through education.

Multicultural Pavillon: An excellent resource for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss issues related to multicultural education and social justice. Resources include: speeches, quotations, handouts, activities, curriculum suggestions, film references and workshops/training information.

Peace Corps World Wide Schools: An innovative education program that seeks to engage U.S. students in an inquiry about the world, themselves and others.  The program offers engaging stories, free classroom resources and ideas for service projects based on the experience of Peace Corps Volunteers around thw world.