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Race & Equity Initiative

Registration is Open for Race and Equity Leadership Workshops

We are pleased to announce that registration for the spring Race & Equity Leadership Workshops program is now open. We are offering a series of free half day leadership-development sessions with varying emphases, including unconscious bias, micro-aggression, and cultural competence. These will be conducted at all three campuses. Given that this is a pilot program, your full participation in the workshop of your choice, and the assessment process (including follow up questionnaires), will inform the design of future race and equity focused workshops and trainings.

Please see below for session titles and registration links. We encourage early registration as we anticipate the sessions will reach capacity.

Available Workshops

Cultural Competence: Addressing Race Relations in the 21st Century (Caprice Hollins) 

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This workshop will develop participants’ appreciation of their role in becoming culturally competent leaders by:

  1. Providing a framework on how to address issues of equity and race.
  2. Creating common language for entering into discourse.

This framework takes a look at deepening awareness of moving from color blindness to racial cognizance; increasing knowledge of others and their experiences of racism and oppression; developing skills to work effectively across cultures; and advocating and taking action to initiate change.

What I Said and What I Meant: Cross-Cultural Communication (Rosetta Lee)

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Humans communicate on many levels: spoken language, tone, body language, style and personality. The fact that we have complex cultural identities and a host of differing past experiences increases the probability of cross-cultural miscommunications. This workshop presents major cross-cultural communication theories, ways that cultural values, power, privilege and differences affect the way we communicate, tools for questioning assumptions and navigating microaggressions, and ways to improve cross-cultural communications skills.