Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

‍Introductions, Why Diversity and Inclusive Language

‍To use inclusive language successfully to avoid sexist language and language with age, race, or gender bias. Inclusive language enables individual to avoid misrepresenting or misusing an individual's gender, race, and age.

Empathy & Perspective

Taking the practice of imagining what the world looks like through another person’s eyes, and it is an incredibly important life skill because it helps us know how to relate to other people. When we have the ability to take the perspectives of other people, we can predict, understand, and appropriately respond to other people’s behaviors, as well as choose our own behaviors with an understanding of how it will be interpreted. Perspective-taking allows us to understand non-verbal communication and to become more self-aware.

• How does Perspective-Taking lead us to Empathy
•  Why is Empathy Still Important Today?
  

Micro-aggressions in the workplace‍

Participants will understand that micro-aggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward the other. Racial Micro-Aggressions are the brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities and denigrating messages sent to people by well-intentioned people who are unaware of the hidden messages being communicated.

Toxic Masculinity

‍Participants in this workshop will identify harmful behaviors of toxic masculinity and offer alternative behaviors. Provide a supportive place to reflect upon, process and express emotion. Develop respect for multiple identities and experiences of masculinity

Implicit Bias‍

Describes when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge. Cognitive science research shows that everyone has implicit biases, sometimes in surprising ways, and that these biases affect how we understand situations, make decisions, and behave. Participants in this workshop will learn how to recognize their own implicit biases, discuss how those biases may impact their teaching and their other professional responsibilities, and develop strategies for ensuring that our classrooms, programs, and institutions are as inclusive as possible.

Coded Language: How Coded Academic Language Creates Barriers for Students

‍Definitions of “success” vary by institution, but regardless of definition, most institutions neglect to include marginalized students in defining, creating, or collaborating in the development of collegiate conceptions of success. Their ideas have the potential to nuance institutional assumptions and expand institutional frames of student success. One of the ways that barriers are created is through academic coded language. However, in this workshop we will use counter-storytelling, a methodology outlined by critical race theory (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002), to disrupt the dominant “deficit” discourse and provide a voice of agency for marginalized students when defining student success. Studies reported marginalized students ‘conceptions of success can help institutions (re-)evaluate strategies that contribute to the overall success of all college students.