Inclusive Excellence & Diversity

This workshop introduces core concepts of culturally responsive teaching. Participants will expand their notions of excellence in teaching and cultivate enthusiasm about beginning or continuing cultural responsive practice. Participants will generate ideas about where and how they may begin to transform their teaching practices to redress educational inequities.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop that utilizes group work and multimedia activities.

This workshop helps participants learn about bias incidents, what they look like, and their impact on different learning and work environments. Participants will develop a more comprehensive understanding of OSU’s bias intervention framework and protocol as well familiarize themselves with institutional resources.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop that utilizes group work and role plays.

This workshop attempts to demystify the theory and practice of social justice leadership and offers vivid and tangible examples of core concepts relative to participants institutional roles. In addition to exploring conceptual frameworks for identity, power, and privilege, participants will draw upon their own experiences to illustrate the concepts of the workshop and develop a depth of understanding that prepares them to educate others.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop.

Community Dialogues seeks to cultivate connection and deep learning through exploration of critical and contentious issues. Utilizing the National Issues Forum model, the Community Dialogues program aims to engage OSU community members in dialogue which deepens understanding of critical issues and the tensions within them, encourages insight into different perspectives, and inspires both individual and collective socio-political action.

The goal of the course is to introduce new OSU faculty and staff to key concepts for diversity, equity and inclusion as well as orient participants to institutional expectations, resources, and learning opportunities. As a way to continue to promote positive engagement and experiences among all faculty and staff, Oregon State University invites all new faculty and staff to complete this course, which focuses on OSU’s history and commitments to diversity and inclusion.

The Search Advocate Foundations workshop series establishes a theoretical foundation of current research about implicit bias and diversity, information about the changing legal landscape in hiring, and an overview of inclusive employment principles.

The Social Justice Education Initiative has a two-tiered structure for standard workshop delivery; this is the first, introductory, tier.