The Inclusion Menu
(with updated options!)
The Inclusion MENU features 50-minute conversation starters themed around diversity and inclusion. Unlike programming where you come to us, we bring these initiatives to you in your faculty and staff meetings, labs, or gatherings. Our goals is to bring diversity and inclusion programs directly to where you work. If you’re interested in hosting a session check out the instructions below.
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How It Works:
Step 1: Review session descriptions below.
Step 2: Contact diversityoffice@bsd.uchicago.edu with the program you’d like us to facilitate in your department.
Step 3: You arrange a room and invite participants from your department or area. We recommend that you use an existing faculty/staff meeting time.
Step 4: We show up at your scheduled meeting and facilitate the conversation around the topic you selected.
Session Descriptions
- Implicit Bias
- LGBTQ Safe Space
- Examining Privilege
- Microaggressions
- Gender Identity
- Inclusive Language and Pedagogy
- Disability Inclusion in the Lab
- Anti-Racism
We’ve all heard about implicit bias, but few of us understand its magnitude. This session uses the latest in behavioral science to educate you about implicit bias and the tactics you can use to reduce its impact. This session is recommended for those involved in recruitment.
Words matter but the language that makes folks feel included changes with time. How do we know what words to use, and what approches to communicate ideas best faciliates learning? Espeically when working with a diverse audience? Inclsuive language and pedagogy provides an introduction to learn and decern what makes language inclusive and how to apply that to teaching and mentoring students.
Disablities are an often over looked aspect of DEI. How do we fight abilism and ensure folks whose bodies and brains work differntly than the assumed majority feel valued and included? This workshop offers an introduction to disbalities and how to work with folks who have them in a welcoming and inclusive way.
Its not enough to just not be racist. Racism is embeded in every aspect of our lives and work. Practicing anti-racism is how we disentangle the subtle emebded forms of racism that prevents us from healing from these old colective wounds.
For further information, contact our office at diversityoffice@bsd.uchicago.edu