Principles of Community banners unveiled with the start of ISCORE
Dr. Kurt Earnest, Residence Life Coordinator, talks about students of color and their lives living on campus during an ISCORE lecture March 3 in the Memorial Union.
March 2, 2018
The new Principles of Community banners went up on Morrill Road between Beardshear Hall and the Memorial Union. The banners will be officially unveiled on Wednesday to coincide with the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE).
The banners represent the university’s Principles of Community — respect, purpose, cooperation, richness of diversity, freedom from discrimination, and honest and respectful expression of ideas — and coordinate with the university’s strategic plan whose mission is to create, share and apply knowledge to make Iowa and the world a better place.
Student Government proposed the The Principles of Community in 2007, which were endorsed by the president of Iowa State, Gregory Geoffroy.
The Principles of Community banners will provide a strong visual presentation of the principles in eight banners on existing light poles. Each of six banners will highlight one of the principles.
The Morrill Road banner project was initiated by faculty and staff members in this year’s Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA) which was established to enhance leadership development for tenured faculty and professional and scientific staff.
The ELA members teamed up with students from Model Farm, a student-run, professionally managed creative services agency, and developed a banner design. The design received approval from University Marketing to display on Morrill Road. The group form ELA also secured the reuse of the banners on a rotating basis in the years to come.
This group of ELA members include Billy Boulden, program coordinator for the Dean of Students Office, Eric Burrough, associate professor of vet diagnostic and production animal medicine, Jake Cummings, Equal Opportunity Office specialist, Nancy Gebhart, program coordinator for University Museums, Cathy Miller, interim assistant dean of vet microbiology and preventive medicine, and Angela Powers, professor forr the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.
The Morrill Road banner project is funded by the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Design, Human Sciences and Engineering, as well as the Ivy College of Business and the Graduate College. The offices of the Senior Vice President of Student Affairs and the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion also contributed funding.
