The YVC Academic Puzzle: Diversity Programs in an Israeli College

The presentation will be based in a book that will be publish during the year 2021. We will refer to the Yezreel Valley College Academic Puzzle Program , which included students (33% non-Jews) studying in academic courses for first and second degrees. We will describe the planning process and developing projects to increase integration, encounter and acquaintance between students. The projects increased mutual acquaintance, created an extensive social network among students to enable them to join labor market and advance socially and economically for a more egalitarian Israel.The regional public colleges established at the end of the 20th century in Israel brought higher education to the periphery and accessibility to academia of excluded populations living in the geographic and social periphery of Israel. The aim was to bring excluded populations to academic education, required today to integrate the 21st century labor market. The public colleges in Israel includes representatives from all the ethnic, cultural and religious groups that make up Israeli society. Therefore, public colleges became the first and main meeting place for young people from different social backgrounds, Jews, (native-born and immigrants, secular to ultra-Orthodox), Muslims and Christian Arabs, Druze and Circassians, meet in the classroom and campus to meet the challenge of promoting socio-economic integration in order to provide equality of opportunity for all citizens in the country.









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