Equity learning sessions offer foundational material for supporting faculty and staff as they further develop equitable pedagogy and practices in their service as the university’s frontline DEI practitioners. All sessions are held via Zoom.

Description of Sessions

Building Cultural Humility: Participants will establish a foundational understanding of the cultural humility framework for social equity. This session looks at the sociohistorical roots of the cultural humility framework paying particular attention to legacies of cultural imperialism.  

Race and Me: Locating Our Racial Identities Within Community: How does your racial identity impact your role in the community? This equity learning session aims to build a foundational understanding of race and its relationship to systems of power. Participants will develop skills to navigate their own racial identities in the service of building equitable community spaces.

Cultivating Brave Space Dialogue: Join this equity learning session to understand the difference between a brave space and a safe space, discuss the basic steps of how to cultivate a brave space, and identify the challenges and opportunities that arise when doing so. Participants will understand the role of power in building equitable spaces for dialogue.  

Gender 101: Participants will gain knowledge about sex, gender identity, gender expression, and types of attraction within a socio-historical context. The purpose of the Gender 101 session is to promote gender equity on the GCU campus by educating staff and faculty on foundational terms and concepts.

An Intro to Disability Justice: Participants will gain foundational knowledge of the social and cultural understanding of disability with an emphasis on multiple marginalized identities. This session strives to build a humanized cultural understanding of disability and move away from compliance-based dominant perceptions of disability and disabled people.

Understanding Microaggressions: “Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership." - Derald Wing Sue. Participants will gain a fundamental awareness of what microaggressions are and have an opportunity to develop upstander skills to navigate their impact.  

For questions, please contact the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: odei@georgian.edu