UDiversity Educational Institute, fall 2021

During this quarter, the UDiversity Educational Institute (Udiversity) provided 13 workshops (five workshops for students, 10 virtual workshops for staff and faculty) with a total of 526 participants (257 undergraduate students, 73 graduate students, 27 faculty and 169 staff). UDiversity conducted its Building Bridges to Cultural Competency workshops for student tutors with the University Tutorial Services Program, Upward Bound student and professional staff, and Chemistry Department graduate students. These workshops examined ways to build cultural awareness and foster inclusivity on campus.

UDiversity collaborated with the student organization Harpur’s Ferry this quarter to provide cultural competency workshops on inclusive recruitment. UDiversity also began to provide its diversity education workshop series, Inclusive Organizations. Participants included Biological Sciences Department faculty and staff, along with Transportation and Parking Services Department (TAPS) staff. During this series, the departments explored team power dynamics and practices, their influence on organizational culture, and how to create inclusive policies and programs within those respective departments.

UDiversity continued its planning for a deliberative dialogue program, slated for fall 2021, which focuses on civic engagement with students. The program is titled “Whose Freedom? Inclusion and the First Amendment Deliberation.” Campus partners include the Center for Civic Engagement, Multicultural Resource Center, Binghamton Speech and Debate, Binghamton Scholars Program, Student Association and Graduate Student Organization.

In addition, UDiversity provided several workshop opportunities for Residential Life: its Art of Facilitation workshop series for Res Life professional staff. For residential assistants, UDiversity provided training on ways to create inclusion within the residential communities.

Furthermore, the UDiversity provided strategic inclusion and equity planning for Res Life senior administration as part of its department retreat. This is part of the ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion work that Residential Life has been implementing through its partnership with UDiversity.

Presentations this quarter included:

June 2021 (these workshops took place after the previous report)

• Creating Inclusive Organizations: Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) (staff, one session)
• Inclusive Organizations-Brave Space and Dialogue: Biology (faculty, one session)
• Building Bridges to Cultural Competency: Upward Bound (staff, students, one session)
• Residential Life Senior Administrative Retreat: (staff, one session)

July 2021

• Building Bridges to Cultural Competence Phase II: TAPS (staff, one session)

August 2021

• Art of Facilitation I: Res Life (students, faculty, staff, one session)
• Art of Facilitation II: Res life (students, faculty, staff, one session)
• Building Bridges to Cultural Competency for Organizations III: TAPS (staff, one session)
• Creating an Inclusive Residential Community: RA Training (staff, one session)
• Building Bridges to Cultural Competence I: Chemistry (students, faculty, one session)
• Building Bridges to Cultural Competence I: Peer Tutors (students, staff, one session)
• Building Bridges to Cultural Competence I: Peer Tutors (students, staff, one session)
  

September 2021

• Inclusive Hiring: Harpur’s Ferry (students, one session)
• Inclusive Pedagogy Series Part I (faculty and staff, one session)