Join us! Instruct & Inspire
We are seeing the divisiveness in our world intensify and 2024 will increase that trend, especially given the U.S. presidential election. These issues of profound disagreement demonstrate the broad range of thought diversity that DEI must engage with in order to assist leadership in navigating future challenges.
The American Diversity Report has been a leader in anticipating trends and Instructing and inspiring strategy-making discussions. We will continue our much needed work with a special category for conversations about our divisive world throughout 2024. Unlike most of ADR conversations, Trends 2024 articles will focus on current and emerging hot topics. Your predictions, dialogue, and explanations are welcome.
Let’s demonstrate how diversity professionals can best facilitate robust conversations that improve understanding without exacerbating divisions. Keep in mind that the goal is to Instruct & Inspire – not to Advocate or Lobby.
Examples of topics include:
- campus protests relating to the war
- spike across the nation in acts of antisemitism and islamophobia
- book banning
- status of the voter rights act
- erosion of trust in the supreme court
- action on fossil fuel
- culture wars around gender
The ADR invites you to participate in this Divisive World project by submitting articles that add to these conversations. Note that these are discussions and not advocacy for specific groups or individuals. Our emphasis is on healing, not intensifying the divisiveness. Your articles should be designed to follow the ADR motto: Instruct & Inspire.
Please note that our general Article Submission Guidelines apply:
1. SUBMIT by E-MAIL
Submit articles as a word.doc attachment and e-mail to: Deborah@AmericanDiversityReport.com New articles are announced in our monthly e-newsletter. Authors are added to our mailing list and receive notification of publication through the ADR monthly newsletter. Note: Submission deadline is noon on the 15th of the month –
Also: ADR is on summer hiatus from June – September. (Submissions for the September newsletter are accepted beginning August 15)
2. ADR FORMAT GUIDE
- FONT: Times Roman – size 12
- LANGUAGE: Articles must be submitted in American or British English.
- PARAGRAPHS: Don’t indent paragraphs – space them instead. The first 5 lines of your 1st paragraph are most visible.
- WORD COUNT: 600-1,500 words.
- SENTENCE LENGTH: Readability scores show that sentences of 20 words or less are most likely to be read.
- TITLE: Do NOT use ALL CAPS, Symbols or Quotation marks. Titles no longer than 5 words are preferred.
- SUBTITLES: You may use up to 5 sub-titles.
- QUOTES: Do not begin your article with a quote.
- URL LINKS: You may embed links to websites in your content, but no e-mail addresses for security reasons.
- BIO: Include a short profile in the third person at the bottom of article: 50-100 words. No live links, italics / bold fonts, email addresses.
- PHOTO/GRAPHICS: You may submit up to 2 visuals as jpeg attachments in e-mail submissions. No personal head shots. Credit the owner/creator, including yourself if you are the creator.
- Read our Disclaimer – You retain copyrights.
C. RULES: SUBMISSIONS NOT PUBLISHED
- NO profanity or hate speech
- NO press releases, infomercials, funding requests, sales / give aways of products or services
- NO political endorsements
- NO anonymous submissions
- NO time sensitive or event announcements
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