Diversity

Dismantling White Supremacy

Nov 10, 2021

Culture reflects a set of agreed-upon expectations and norms in a social community. Culture includes values, beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors learned from one’s group. In the United States, white supremacy culture pervades the communities and organizations that we...

Bystander Intervention: What to Do When You May Not Know What to Do

Nov 8, 2021

This workshop will give a basic introduction to Bystander Intervention. In this workshop, participants will learn about what causes hesitancy when thinking about intervening, types of harm that people may encounter, and strategies to safely intervene. Participants...

We’re Biased. So Now What?: Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias

Nov 5, 2021

Many of us are committed to DEI and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. The goals of this workshop are for participants to: 1)...

Writing a Diversity Statement

Nov 1, 2021

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job...

You Don’t Belong Here: The Stories Our Systems Tell (and Why We Have to Disrupt Them)

Oct 29, 2021

Many universities message extensively around their commitments about diversity, equity, and inclusion. These institutional assertions are often called into question, though, by the stories of members of the higher education community who continue to face...