If you would like information about starting a COMPASS workshop at your campus, contact Sukaina Hirji (shirji@vt.edu). You can also read this Daily Nous Article for more information.
The hope in creating COMPASS was that it could be easily replicated by departments in other regions to provide coverage across the country. There are a number of truly wonderful diversity programs in philosophy (PIKSI, SPWP, Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity) but they are limited in the number of students they can accept every year, and most departments don’t have the resources to run similar programs.
A Compass Workshop can feasibly be organized by two or three graduate students, and with limited funds; it could also easily be run as a collaboration amongst several departments in the same region. The feedback we have received from undergraduate participants has been extremely positive and encouraging. Moreover, because the workshop is easily replicable, it has the potential to impact a large number of undergraduates.