Vadim Bondarenko

Senior year thesis project. Diversity + Equality communication platform.

Among the nation’s public universities, The University of Tennessee continues to rank near the bottom of the list with regard to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. The university’s failure to communicate its policies and position on these issues, in a manner that is either visible, meaningful, or compelling to its target audience, is partly to blame. A new, ongoing, and omnipresent public communication platform, designed to engage students in ways to which they are more likely to respond to and pay attention, is needed. This platform could also be used to denounce all acts of violence, intimidation, and discrimination, to outline challenges, and to announce initiatives to address them.