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UDiversity Educational Institute, winter 2020

The fourth quarter ended with a major snowstorm. Here, a look at the Lois B. DeFleur Walkway three days after the snow fell. The fourth quarter ended with a major snowstorm. Here, a look at the Lois B. DeFleur Walkway three days after the snow fell.
The fourth quarter ended with a major snowstorm. Here, a look at the Lois B. DeFleur Walkway three days after the snow fell. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
December 16, 2020

During this quarter, the UDiversity Educational Institute provided 38 workshops (26 live virtual workshops for students, seven live virtual workshops for staff only, two live virtual workshops for faculty only and three live virtual workshops for faculty and staff) with a total of 1,072 participants (501 undergraduate students, 221 graduate students, 87 faculty and 263 staff). The UDiversity Educational Institute held its Building Bridges to Cultural Competency Phase I workshops for faculty and staff. This workshop examined ways to build cultural awareness for faculty and staff on campus. The institute also collaborated with several Student Association-chartered organizations during this quarter to provide cultural competency workshops. Organizations included BU A Cappella, APOTKE, Delta Phi Epsilon, Pipe Dream, Harpur’s Ferry, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the Society of Hispanic Engineers (SHPE) and TEDxBinghamtonUniversity. UDiversity also continued its inaugural dialogue series with the Psychology Department and Res Life focused on inclusion and equity for their faculty, staff and students. This series includes discussions focused on active listening, social identity development and culture, and incorporating anti-racism, racial healing and equity framing and approaches to their work. UDiversity provided training for the Academic Advising Department on ways to create inclusive organizations. In addition, the unit worked with faculty to provide cultural competency sessions for their classes. These sessions were completed within the following schools and programs: Decker School of Nursing and the Division of Public Health. UDiversity also provided two workshops focused on civic engagement with students in partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement. These session topics were the “2020 Presidential Debate Watch Party” and “What Now? How to Hold Elected Officials Accountable.” UDiversity also provided its final two workshops within tits Inclusive Pedagogy series as part of the newly mandated professional development requirement from the Division of Academic Affairs for new faculty. Furthermore, the UDiversity Educational Institute implemented its first 2-credit CDCI internship for students at Binghamton University. The goals of the internship are to: a) foster cultural competency, b) enhance self-awareness around identity and c) provide facilitation skills for students to engage in dialogue around diversity, equity and inclusion. Student interns assist UDiversity professional staff with communications and marketing, coordination of workshops/events and analyzing collected data from workshop evaluations.

Presentations this quarter were:

October 2020

  • Res Life Professional Staff Racial Healing (staff, 1one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency Phase I Faculty and Staff (faculty and staff, one session)
  • Inclusive Pedagogy: Faculty (The Need for Dialogue) (faculty, one session)
  • Res Life Professional Staff - Facilitation and Racial Justice Dialogue (staff, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: Deans Team (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: Student (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency: Dickinson Res Life In-Service (students, two sessions)
  • Res Life Professional Staff - Anti-Racism and Racial Justice (staff, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: A Capella (1/4) (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: APOTKE Leadership (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Inclusive Organizations I-Academic Advising (staff, one session)
  • Harpur’s Ferry - Inclusive Hiring (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: Center for Civic Engagement (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency: Master of Public Health (Part I) (students, one session)

November 2020

  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency: Master of Public Health (Part II) (students, one session)
  • TEDx Binghamton Inclusive Organizations (students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: A Capella (students, four sessions)
  • Harpur’s Ferry-Health Conference (staff and students, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: Delta Phi Epsilon (students, three sessions)
  • Building Bridges to Inclusive Organizations II-Academic Advising (staff, one session)
  • Active Listening: Residential Life Professional Staff (staff, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency: Newing (students, one session)
  • Newing In Service: Navigating Difficult Dialogues (students, one session)
  • Res Life Professional Staff-Inclusive Dialogue Debrief (staff, one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: SWE and SHPE (students, one session)
  • Inclusive Pedagogy: Faculty (Ensuring Academic Success) (faculty, 1one session)
  • CCE Dialogue: What Now? How to Hold Elected Officials Accountable (students, 1one session)
  • Building Bridges to Cultural Competency I: Pipe Dream (students, one session)

December 2020

  • Responding to Racial Microaggressions in the Workplace (faculty and staff, one session)
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