DEI Training Database
From The WorkLife Office
From MSU
Africa-China-US Triangle: What You Should Know Today
5/3/2021 | Jennifer Wargo, pippinj1@msu.edu
From Office of China Programs and the Asian Studies Center
Forum on Teaching and Learning Virtually with International Students: Best Practices and Challenges During the Pandemic
12/9/2020 | Jennifer Wargo, pippinj1@msu.edu
Part 2 of 2 of Forum on Teaching and Learning
Forum for Faculty with Students in China: Navigating Teaching Online
8/25/2020 | Jennifer Wargo, pippinj1@msu.edu
Part 1 of 2 of Forum on Teaching and Learning
From International Studies & Programs and the Global DEI Task Force
Globally Inclusive Language and Images: An Introduction
12/2/2021 | Ashley Green, agreen@msu.edu
What is globally inclusive language and why is it important? The first webinar in this three-part series will focus on how language and images are perceived in a global context and the need for an intentional shift toward communications that de-center the U.S. perspective and celebrate our Global Spartan community.
Globally Inclusive Language and Images: Putting into Practice
1/26/2022 | Ashley Green, agreen@msu.edu
As you know here at MSU, we are a vibrant global community of students, faculty, staff and partners from all around the world. To help advance our long term commitment to thoughtful and inclusive international engagement, the Globally Inclusive Language and Images webinar series aims to serve as a catalyst for campus wide reflection and action by offering information and resources that reinforce globally conscious and inclusive practices
From Forge
Beliefs, Bias, and Bumpers: Implicit and Explicit Roadbloacks to Trans and LGBQ+ Welcoming Services
11/5/2020
Topics covered include an overarching framework of bias vs. wholeness; an exploration of different forms of bias; techniques for building community; how to address differences; and putting bias reducing behaviors into action.
From MSU Broad Art Museum
Science of Grief Death Rituals Around the World Panel
3/20/2021 | Kress O’Leary, olearykr@msu.edu
Discussion on how different people handle and cope with the death of individuals.
From MSU Alumni Association
Islam 101
3/16/2015 | Mohammad Khalil, khalilmo@msu.edu
In this lecture, Professor Khalil discusses the basics of Islamic beliefs and practices and various hot topics.
Unconscious Bias in Virtual Settings
8/13/2020 | worklife@msu.edu
While employees use videoconferencing now more than ever, there’s an issue happening beneath the surface with platforms like Zoom, Teams and Skype beyond stress and mental health that’s affecting its users. These virtual settings are ripe for unconscious bias — or, attitudes towards people or associated stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge. These can be related to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other identity points. This seminar explores how unconscious bias manifests in virtual settings through language, symbolism and nonverbal cues to privilege and disadvantage at social identity points. The seminar also explores the range of reactions that can manifest when first discovering our own unconscious biases.
Through the Looking Glass: And What Anti-Racist’s Find There
6/25/2020 | Stratton Lee III, leestrat@msu.edu
This conversation will help those who are questioning, starting, or already on the journey to understanding the impacts of racism on our personal lives, that of our loved ones and peers, and across our society. We will address the good/bad binary as we seek to understand that “racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemology embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality,” as explained by Omowale Akintunde. Lastly, we will explore how to get started and continue addressing the ills of racism, past, and present.
WNA: Taming Imposter Syndrome
9/30/2021 | Amy Pierce-Danders, piercamy@gvsu.edu
Women, especially high-achieving women, are more likely to have feelings of inadequacy even though our successes are well documented. During our time together, we’ll dig into what Imposter Syndrome is and we’ll walk alongside each other to learn ways to remove the power of the gremlins that hinder harnessing success and self-love.
Bias, Understanding, and Realization Among Team Members
6/30/2020 | worklife@msu.edu
Whether it is yourself cultural knowledge or understanding the perspective, background, and differences that those around you bring to work. There is never a time in life when you aren’t on a team. In this webinar, you will observe actions to be a successful organization by understanding the uniqueness that you bring and the diversity and culture of the organization and that those that you work with will bring as well.
OCAT's Green Table We Are APIDA
3/26/2021 | worklife@msu.edu
This APIDA Heritage Month edition of OCAT’s Green Table centers the experience of APIDA student leaders as they navigate an anti-Asian pandemic environment. But, let’s be clear. An anti-Asian environment did not begin with the pandemic.
WNA: Assertiveness: The secret ingredient for self-care and unlocking your untapped potential
3/31/2021 | NiCole Buchanan, nbuchana@msu.edu
Assertiveness is one of the most important skills women need for stepping into their power, reclaiming their lives, and establishing boundaries and self-care practices. Despite its importance, assertiveness is often misunderstood as aggression, acting like a man, being mean or being disrespectful. This talk will debunk the myths about what assertiveness is and is not. By the end of this session, participants will have the resources needed for growing their assertiveness skills so they can build self-care practices and unleash the full depths of their power.
Engaging with LGBTQA+ Communities
6/19/2020 | Oprah Revish, oprah@msu.edu
Join the LBGT Resource Center as we discuss how to get involved with us, our new LGBTQA+ competency building curriculum (Quest), and things to consider as we all continue to learn more effective ways to intentionally engage with each other. Allyship is about doing and sometimes we don’t know where to start. The thing that matters is that you do start!
WNA: Mitigating Bias in Hiring
WNA: Building up Women Around You Panel
10/27/2021 | Amy Martin, mart1442@msu.edu
By raising each other up and through the power of collaboration is how we will move forward, together, as women in the workforce. This panel will address how these women have experienced being lifted up by other women and how they lift other women up around them.
How to Keep DEI Practices in Place While Working Online
5/28/2020 | worklife@msu.edu
Topics include family care, working from home, remaining connected, staying healthy, and supporting you!
Anti-Racism: The Heart and Mind of the Matter
7/2/2020 | worklife@msu.edu
A time of dissonance, disagreement between beliefs and one’s own actions, offer each of us an opportunity to take a step back and look at the larger, deeper picture to engage in transformation. Learn how each of us can take action to be allies and affect change in support of anti-racism in our workplace and personal lives.
Unconscious Bias: How to Enact Micro-Interventions in Response to Microaggressions
8/18/2020 | worklife@msu.edu
How to enact micro-interventions in response to microaggressions and if/when unconscious bias manifests. We will include sample questions and practice intervention strategies of the “what to say,” “how to say it,” “when to say it” and preparing for the response.
WNA: Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
Celebrate Women’s History Month by joining Professor Renee Knake Jefferson for this special conversation about women shortlisted for the United States Supreme Court before Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice in 1981. Drawing from the research in her book Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, Jefferson will introduce the audience to nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s.
From MSU Women's Advisory Committee for Support Staff
Muslims in/of the US, Past and Present
12/10/2020 | Mohammad Khalil, khalilmo@msu.edu
In this presentation, Professor Khalil discusses the history, evolution, and diversity of US Muslims. He also tackles the issue of Islamophobia.
Neurodiversity: Towards a More Inclusive Campus
11/17/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Lindsay Hill and Kelsey Foote discuss Neurodiversity, and individual differences in brain function are regarded as normal variations within the human population and should not be stigmatized
Challenging Racism in Consumer Culture
5/20/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Shreena Gandhi discusses steps to infuse anti-racism into consumerism, by interrogating the history of objects around us.
Health Equity: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Access to Care
4/20/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Wanda D. Lipscomb addresses the barriers to healthcare access faced by underserved communities.
Intersectionality as Lived Experience, Radical Theory, and Social Justice Activism
3/4/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. NiCole T. Buchanan discusses how intersectionality has broader implications than the individual level, including our systems and their influence on individuals as a result of intersecting identities.
Muslims in/of the US, Past and Present
12/10/2020 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Mohammad Khalil discusses injustices to and accomplishments of Muslims in the US, from chattel slavery to representation in US Congress.
On Facing Boogeymen Or, What the Horror Genre Taught Me About Anti-Racist Leadership
1/12/2022 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Marita Gilbert brilliantly details steps to actively advance anti-racist leadership, using examples from the horror genre.
Achieving Equality with Native American and Indigenous Students at MSU
6/17/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Emily Sorroche discusses MSU’s past, present, and future relationship with Native American and Indigenous peoples.
Challenges Faced by Migrant Students
5/11/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Luis Garcia, Elias Lopez, Ingrid Aguayo-Fuentealba, and Aleida Martinez discuss Migrant students’ hardships and what the faculty and staff can do to ensure the success of all students.
Book Talk, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter and How They Changed the World"
11/24/2020 | wacss@msu.edu
Dr. Jennifer Cobbina discusses the history of police violence, protests against it, and hope for the future.
Dismantling Pipelines, Building Villages: Anti-racist STEM Education as Dynamic Coalition Building
2/17/2021 | wacss@msu.edu
Michael Lachney and Brianna Green present their out-of-the-box projects for incorporating STEM education into unexpected spaces
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Your Journey toward Anti-Racism
Start here! Dr. Darrell King introduces anti-racism and the social concept of race. He teaches us to identify, describe, and dismantle racism.
From MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Monique Morris, MSU Slavery to Freedom lecture series
2/4/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
Dr. Monique Morris at MSU for the William G. Anderson Slavery to Freedom lecture series
Dr. Cornel West, Michigan State University Slavery to Freedom lecture series
2/25/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
Dr. Cornel West at MSU for the William G. Anderson Slavery to Freedom lecture series
Medicine and Indigenous Peoples
12/8/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
A chance for you to gain awareness of the types of health inequities that affect Indigenous people, understand the historical events an dloss of traditional practices contributing to indiegnous public health, and introduction to Indigenous people in Michigan.
Women's History Month Lecture
3/17/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
Our Women’s History Month lecture will be given by alumna Dr. Darnita Hill, student health physician and faculty member in Allied Health at Tuskegee University. Join us for important historical and medical insights as she discusses her book, Blacks In Osteopathic Medicine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
Patrisse Cullors, MSU Slavery to Freedom lecture series
2/11/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
Patrisse Cullors at MSU for the William G. Anderson Slavery to Freedom lecture series
Grit Builds Resilience: Preparing for a Lifetime of Service
11/11/2020 | breedlov@msu.edu
Medical education's responsibility for developing a physician workforce prepared to address health care disparities
10/20/2020 | breedlov@msu.edu
Task Force on Racial Equity
11/30/2021 | breedlov@msu.edu
Jonglim Han DEI Presentations
From MSU College of Education
Rising to Our Responsibility: A Forum for School Leaders
6/9/2020 | Terah Venzant Chambers, terah@msu.edu
Protests calling for revolution in the wake of George Floyd’s brutal murder in Minneapolis at the hands of police have awakened in many school leaders a renewed sense of responsibility to lead discussions about systemic racism and racial injustice in our schools. Faculty in MSU’s College of Education who teach about and research these topics discussed the historical origins of these protests as well as steps school leaders must take to continue conversations about the current climate in their own schools.
Rising to Our Responsibility: Moving Beyond "Back to Normal"
3/3/2021 | Terah Venzant Chambers, terah@msu.edu
The United States has a new presidential administration, teachers are beginning to be vaccinated, and schools are returning to face-to-face instruction. But in the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol and an ongoing global pandemic, educators and our students are still living through unprecedented times. During this session, our panel will discuss: What are our responsibilities now? Do we want to go back to normal? Do we want to go back to the world before the last four years? Before the pandemic? How do we move forward into a new, better educational future?
From Professional Development Working Group
Bringing Cultural Humility to Academic Advising
1/18/2022 | Anne Slavin, schrock7@msu.edu
Join us to hear Blane discuss what he has learned over the years about the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility. The construct of cultural competence assumes that one can learn or know enough, that cultures are monolithic, and that one can reach a full understanding of a culture to which they do not belong. In contrast, cultural humility encourages ongoing personal reflection and growth around culture in order to increase awareness and introspection.
