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Resource Guide for Recruiting Excellent and Diverse Faculty RESOURCE GUIDE FOR RECRUITING EXCELLENT AND DIVERSE FACULTY Community Resource Guide Black Faculty and Staff Association The city of Ames is a medium sized college This FSA has an active Diversity and Inclusion town just 30 minutes north of Iowa’s largest website and an active Facebook page. metropolitan area, Des Moines. Although the State of Iowa is commonly regarded otherwise, Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ Iowa has been on the forefront of social justice IsuBlackFacultyStaffAssociation and equal rights issues throughout most of its Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ history. Iowa State University (“ISU”) works connect/fsa/bfsa tirelessly to continue this tradition forward in building an environment of cultural competence with its annual Thomas L. Hill Iowa State Colegas, Building Community Conference on Race and Ethnicity (“ISCORE”). Colegas is ISU’s Hispanic and Latinx Faculty The following are community resources both on and Staff Association. Although this group campus and in the surrounding community of has a website on the Diversity and Inclusion Ames, Iowa: webpage, it uses a Facebook page for most of its activities. Faculty and Staff Associations ISU has several groups right on campus. ISU Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ calls its groups Faculty and Staff Associations IowaStateUniversityColegas. (“FSAs”). Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ connect/fsa/colegas American Indian Faculty and Staff Council This FSA does not have a Facebook group and Iowa State Christian Faculty and Staff Association does not appear to have regularly scheduled This FSA is active on Facebook. It does not events on the Diversity and Inclusion have a corresponding FSA page on the webpage. Diversity and Inclusion website. Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ connect/fsa/ai groups/230196837387352/ Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association Jewish Faculty and Staff Association This FSA uses its Facebook page to display its This FSA is listed on the Diversity and scheduled events on campus. It also appears Inclusion page. on the Diversity and Inclusion webpage. Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ connect/fsa/jfsa groups/1667622446785032/ Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ connect/fsa/aapi 515 Morrill Road 3410 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2021 Phone: 515-294-7612 Email: [email protected] LGBTQA+ Faculty and Staff Association This is a group that gathers at the church It has a very active Diversity and Inclusion each third Thursday evening of the month website. It has posts on its corresponding to discuss life and theology outside of the Facebook and Twitter pages as well. framework of God. Website: https://www.diversity.iastate.edu/ connect/fsa/lgbtqa Phone: (515) 292-5960 Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Email: [email protected] ISULGBTQAFSA Twitter: https://twitter.com/isu_lgbtqa_ Buddhism fsa?lang=en The Angor Wat Friendship Association 1301 19th St, Des Moines, Iowa, 50314 Religious organizations, places of prayer, meditation This Association was established to promote There are several religious organizations and the Khmer (Cambodian) culture, language and places of worship in and around Ames, Iowa. art. It is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. These organizations are listed below: Email: [email protected] Atheism, Agnosticism, Secularism Phone: (515) 897 – 2151, (515) 247-0189 Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers (Sareap Noeuy) Sam and Louie’s Pizza, 8561 Hickman Rd, Website: https://www.facebook.com/ Urbandale, IA Angkor-Wat-Friendship-Association- Inc-359523871075030/ Although this is not a religious group, it is one Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ which weighs in on existential questions and Angkor-Wat-Friendship-Association- spirituality. It meets at Sam and Louie’s pizza Inc-359523871075030/ every Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambodian- Phone: (515) 770-8541 Buddhist-Society/112009918861509 Email: [email protected] Websites: https://www.iowaatheists.org/, Chua Hong An https://www.meetup.com/Iowa-Atheists-and- 1419 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Des Freethinkers/, https://twitter.com/Iowa_Atheists Moines, IA 50314 Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Iowa- Atheists-and-Freethinkers/ This temple is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Iowa_Atheists p.m. Monday through Friday. Specific events and weekly events are not listed on the AHA! (Atheists, Humanists, Agnostics) website. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames – 1015 Hyland Avenue, Ames, IA Phone: (515) 999-6944 Website: https://www.chuahongan.com/ thumoi.htm 515 Morrill Road 3410 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2021 Phone: 515-294-7612 Email: [email protected] Buddhism Discussion Group Tu Vien Hong Đuc Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames – 5906 S.W. 9th Street, Des Moines, IA 50315 1015 Hyland Avenue, Ames, IA 50014 This is a Vietnamese Buddhist temple. They This group meets through shared readings, have a weekly service from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 discussion and exploration of teams and p.m. every Sunday. concepts. There is not a regular meeting time listed in the activity guide. Phone: (515) 256 – 8176 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ Phone: (515) 292-5960 TVHD2009/about/?ref=page_internal Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Pure Land of Iowa Wat Phothisomphan 8364 Hickman Road, Clive, IA 50325 2560 SE 14th Street, Des Moines, IA 50320 This group emphasizes pure land Buddhism, This is a Buddhist temple that meets weekly for but it allows other Buddhist groups to use dharma talks and chanting meditation and hosts its facilities. The group meets every Sunday monthly events. morning for two hours from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with a one-hour potluck afterward until Phone: (515) 619 – 9222 / (515) 777 – 4348 12:00 p.m. They also have two-hour Buddhism Facebook: http://facebook.com/ study on week days from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. WatPhothisomphan Email: [email protected] Phone: (515) 452-5898 Website: https://www.purelandofiowa.org/ Wat Lao Email: [email protected] 1804 E. Park Ave, Des Moines, IA 50320 This Buddhist temple is open from 7:00 a.m. to The Des Moines Zen Center 10:00 p.m. Mondays through Sunday. 6901 SW 14th, Des Moines, IA 50315 The Zen Center introduces visitors and students Phone: (515) 282 – 1801 to Zen Buddhism on the third Thursday of the Website: http://www.dsmwatlao.org/buddhism month from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Each Sunday Email: [email protected] the Zen Center conducts zazen from 7:10 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. They provide childcare and snacks for Baha’i children during the zazen session. There are two Baha’i communities in West Des Moines and Des Moines. In West Des Moines, Website: http://dmzencenter.org/contact-us/ Alan Prosser organizes a Baha’i community. In Email: [email protected], info@ Des Moines, Claudia Murphy organizes a Baha’i dmzencenter.com community. Website: http://desmoinesbahai.org Claudia Murphy: [email protected] Alan Prosser: [email protected] 515 Morrill Road 3410 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2021 Phone: 515-294-7612 Email: [email protected] Catholicism Hinduism St. Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Iowa Center 33916, 155th Lane, Madrid, Iowa, 50156 2210 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50014 This is a beautiful Hindu temple nearby that This catholic church is more oriented towards performs weddings and services related to younger adults and FOCUS ministry. Mass is several deities. The following services are listed conducted on Saturdays (4:45 p.m.), Sundays on their website: (8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m.), Tuesdays (12:00 p.m.), Wednesdays (12:00 p.m.), Sri Vishnu Parayanam (recitation) is the first Thursdays (9:15 p.m.) and Fridays (12:00 p.m.). Saturday of month from 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. It also schedules events throughout the year. Shiva and Rudra Abhishekam (prayer) is every Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. to 8:05 Phone: (515) 292 – 3810 p.m. Website: https://staparish.net Lakshmi Pooja (worship) every Friday at 6:45 Email: [email protected] p.m. St. Cecilia Church – 2900 Hoover Avenue, Ames, Balaji Abhishakem (prayer) is the first Saturday IA 50010 from 9:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This is a church and a kindergarten through Ganesha Abhishakem (prayer) is the second high school catholic school. English mass is Saturday of the month from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 convened from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Tuesday p.m. through Friday. On Saturdays, English mass Parvati Abhishekam (prayer) is the third occurs from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. On Sunday, Saturday of the month from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 English mass occurs from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. a.m. and 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mass in Spanish is Karthikeya Abhishekam (prayer) is the fourth convened from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays. Saturday of the month from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Phone: (515) 233 – 3092 Durga Pooja (worship) is the fifth Saturday of Website: https://www.stceciliaparish.org/contact/ the month from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Email: [email protected] Bhagavad Geetha (recitation) is on the first Sunday of the month from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church p.m. 14238 500th Ave, Ames, IA 50014 Satyanarayana Pooja (worship) on the second This church is in a more rural setting. Mass is Sunday of the month from 10:15 a.m.
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