Ujima

Dalton is deeply committed to providing as diverse and harmonious a learning environment as possible. Over the years we have made considerable strides towards increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of our community and we are trying to make similar progress towards increasing the diversity of our faculty population. The current level of diversity of our school not ideal. For example, in New York City, less than 50% of the population is white, whereas in Dalton the majority of our student and faculty are white, so we do not yet fully reflect the varied racial and ethnic makeup of the city. There are several reasons for this. Dalton is a private school, and since much of the wealth in the city is concentrated in white hands, socio-economic factors alone make it difficult for the school to change overnight. Other factors, including the geographical and historical, have also contributed. Within Dalton, administrators, teachers, parents and students of all backgrounds are working together to realize our goal of a richly diverse place of learning.
Dalton seeks to change itself from within, but it also seeks to connect to other groups and cultures, so that we may become more knowledgeable and educated ourselves, and so that we can take our place and assume our responsibilities in the global community. Since Koigi wa Wamwere has become a part of our wider community, the people of Kenya have become our neighbors too. Through the Ujima project, we hope that we can act with the Kenyan people to bring about greater mutual understanding, tolerance, friendship and respect. In particular, we hope that we can work together to further the cause of education in Kenya and at Dalton.

For more information about Dalton, please refer to the school’s web page
http://www.dalton.org/