Student Life

The Office of Social Equity/Affirmative Action
The Affirmative Action program of Lock Haven University includes a commitment to an overall program to achieve equal opportunity by increasing the supply of qualified or qualifiedly minority, female, disabled and veteran candidates for employment and as students.

Human Relations
Human relations in its most simplistic form constitutes any interaction between two or more people. This interaction will usually include a verbal and nonverbal exchange of ideas, beliefs, views, feelings, attitudes, and opinions.

Stages of Majority Member of Cultural Awareness
As we begin to think about a human relations program, it is essential that you understand something about your own awareness of racial attitudes and discrimination.

Stages of Minority Member of Cultural Awareness
Cross (1978) proposed a four stage model of psychological nigrescence or African-American self-actualization in which he suggested that African-Americans move from a stage of racial consciousness characterized by self-abasement and denial of their ethnicity to a stage characterized by self-esteem and acceptance of their ethnicity.

Being Caucasian in a Pre-Dominant Caucasian University

Being African-American in a Pre-Dominant Caucasian University

Being Asian in a Pre-Dominant Caucasian University

Being a Homosexual in a Pre-Dominant Heterosexual University

Common Questions and Answers about Homosexuality
Magazine articles, books, news reporting, movies and public discussions of Homosexual are so plentiful today as to indicate a genuine public concern about the subject and a desire to better understand it. However, the layman has difficulty in finding simple, straightforward answers to many of his questions readily available in convenient form.

Test Yourself for Hidden Bias!
When you get to the website, scroll all the way to the bottom to take the test. After reviewing the results, you might be surprised!