Combating Discrimination, Racism, and Inequality Together

When Black Lives Don't Matter: Years Lost to Wrongful Convictions in the Black Community

Hosted by the University of Colorado Law

In this virtual lecture, part of the University of Colorado Law School’s Race and the Law series, Clinical Professor Ann England and Anne-Marie Moyes, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project, will examine the role of race in wrongful convictions. They will explore why they happen more to people of color, how race informs the lack of adequate reforms, and why exonerations take longer for Black versus white defendants. 

Wrongful convictions occur at significant rates and disproportionately affect communities of color.  Scholars have identified various factors that contribute to wrongful convictions in studying hundreds of exonerations from the past three decades.Yet, progress has been slow in addressing the police practices, flawed forensic science, prosecutorial misconduct, and underfunded indigent defense at the root of most wrongful convictions.

Thursday, April 29

5:00pm - 6:15pm

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Community Connection: Recent Incidents of Racially-Motivated Bias, Violence, & Hate

Hosted by ACUHO-I and NADOHE

Anti-Asian sentiment and violence in the U.S. have increased by more than 150 percent over the past year according to recent reports from Stop AAPI Hate. This statistic is staggering and instructive for how we must continue to direct our resources in service to our members and communities. Join ACUHO-I and NADOHE for a moderated discussion to process the recent events of racially-motivated violence and gather insights and approaches to help us move forward and better support our Asian American community members. Attendees will have the opportunity to make comments and ask questions in real time.

Thursday, April 29

1:00pm - 2:00pm

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The First-Generation Student Experience - What We Know from Research, Practice, and Popular Culture

Hosted by the Gardner Institute

This series explores how Higher Education is both impacted by and responding to these challenges focusing on college teaching, learning, student success, and all aspects of higher education. We will include frank conversations about equity, and the current climate in higher education. Through this forum, we will engage with colleagues across the country as we dissect issues in higher education in real-time.

Wednesday, May 5

Noon - 1:00pm

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The Diversification of Inequality -- The Question of Class and the Politics of Inclusion

Hosted by the University of Colorado Law

In this virtual lecture, part of the University of Colorado Law School’s Race and the Law series, Professor Ahmed White will explore how in recent years, “diversity” and “inclusion” have taken hold as governing precepts of “social justice” activism and given new meaning to civil rights and renewed relevance to the quest for social equality. But these concepts have also emerged as ways of justifying the extraordinary economic inequality that defines our times, as they counsel legal and political reforms that accept the essential legitimacy of the structures that underlie economic inequality and are preoccupied with making those structures more representative.  In this way, diversity and inclusion have served less as means of advancing genuine equality than as methods for lending the appearance of democracy to a fundamentally undemocratic social order.

This program of diversifying inequality has its roots in a reconciliation of leftism with the politics of liberalism in New Deal and Postwar America, and likewise in a fateful dispute within the civil rights movement that ended with an initial push for structural economic reform sidelined in favor of an approach to racial justice premised, instead, on private litigation, individual rights, and the principles of antidiscrimination. It draws essential support from a class of affluent minorities and women that it helped create. And it is fully realized today in the great success with which powerful corporations, oligarchs, and privileged professionals use diversity and inclusion to assert their own legitimacy and rule over the workplace, the cultural sphere, and the political order.

Thursday, May 6

5:00pm - 6:15pm

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Black Talk: Race in the Workplace Series DEI in Vivid Color

Hosted by NAACP Boulder County

The NAACP Boulder County invites you to a virtual discussion focused on building the tools to recognize unconscious bias and how to eliminate this bias in all areas of employment and hiring in the workplace. This session is designed to be thought provoking, as well as to explore real-world scenarios and provide tools to eliminate bias in all areas of employment and staff building. Panelists will candidly explore scenarios of race in the workplace, tools to recognize unconscious bias and how it manifests from the hiring process to workplace etiquette and beyond, to community sustainability for Black and POC hires.

Thursday, May 6

1:00pm - 2:30pm

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A Model for Building Diversity, Equity, and Community

Hosted by Association of American Universities

The Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department at the University of Florida is one of, if not the most, diverse computer science departments in the nation. CISE has the nation's largest group of African-American faculty and PhD students. CISE is also in the top with respect to women tenure-track faculty. Following an introduction by University of Florida Associate Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School Henry Frierson, Dr. Juan Gilbert will discuss how this unprecedented diversity was accomplished and how it can be replicated.

Speaker: Juan E. Gilbert, Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor & Chair Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida

Friday, May 7

11:00am - Noon

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The First-Generation Student Experience - What We Know from Research, Practice, and Popular Culture

Hosted by the Gardner Institute

This series explores how Higher Education is both impacted by and responding to these challenges focusing on college teaching, learning, student success, and all aspects of higher education. We will include frank conversations about equity, and the current climate in higher education. Through this forum, we will engage with colleagues across the country as we dissect issues in higher education in real-time.

Wednesday, May 19

Noon - 1:00pm

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Socially Just Design in Academic Advising

Hosted by the Gardner Institute

This series is designed to provide educators an opportunity to learn, discuss, and influence the redesign of postsecondary systems in higher education. While designed for the postsecondary audience, this particular session in the series is also co-sponsered by NACADA and may have a higher education viewpoint in its presentation.

Monday, May 26

11:00am- Noon

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Inclusive Communities of Practice (ICoP) Canvas Course

Center for Teaching and Learning

This self-paced anti-racism reading course via Canvas also allows room for community discussion, resources, and advertisement of events. The course is a community project and is open to any and all who wish to participate, inviting all participants to engage in self-reflection and growth. Please note that this course has no due dates or deadlines. It will be available indefinitely, and participants can access the readings and reflection questions at your their pace. If a participant would like to join a discussion group, please fill out this survey.

The CTL will also host weekly community meetings. Some of these meetings will be discussions on anti-racism readings from the Canvas course, but they will also host various speakers from around campus during these meetings. Please fill out this short survey to help determine the day and time of this weekly meeting.

Examining Whiteness Reading Group

Center for Teaching and Learning

This group will meet six times to discuss chapters, poems and essays that provoke dialogue from various points of view regarding anti-racism. Discussions will be centered on the contrast between the white experiences and experiences of people of color on our campus. Participants will reflect on how to implement anti-racist pedagogy in their classroom through examination of the IDEA plan.

DEI Happy Hour

Hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning

This self-paced anti-racism reading course via Canvas also allows room for community discussion, resources, and advertisement of events. The course i

Center for Inclusion and Social Change: Interrupting Racism Training and Intersectionality Training

The Interrupting Racism Training engages participants in discussions aimed to identify examples of racism in their lives or in an institution they participate in, while learning strategies for interrupting racism.

The Intersectionality Training focuses on two or more aspects of identity (such as race and gender) as tools of analysis and engages participants in exploring how people can simultaneously navigate social space with both dominant and oppressed identities.

The Hard Work of Culture Change

Hostsed by the Association of American Universities

Valerie Ashby, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University “Diversity equals excellence” is a firmly held value for the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University under the leadership of Dean Valerie S. Ashby. But how do you create and maintain a workplace culture that supports and advances that priority? In this talk, Dean Ashby will outline the actions she and her colleagues took over the last five years, how they went about that difficult work, and why those efforts matter immensely today.

What Racial Equity Requires

Hostsed by the Association of American Universities

This session will focus on ways racial issues are commonly mishandled at research universities across the United States. Dr. Harper will draw heavily from data conducted at the interdisciplinary research center he founded at the University of Pennsylvania a decade ago and now directs at USC. Dr. Harper will offer practical guidance to campus leaders who are committed to effectively solving complex racial problems; meeting the needs of students and employees of color; holding themselves and other members of their campus communities accountable for actualizing diversity and inclusion goals; and achieving and sustaining racial equity at AAU member institutions.

Ombuds Office: "Small Bites. Big Impact" Lunch and Learn Series - Topic: "Staying in Conversation About Race"

Kirsi Aulin, Ombuds Director and Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Donna Mejia, CU Boulder Theatre and Dance

This six-part series explores what it means to stay in the conversation about race.

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NCORE Webinars

The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE)

NCORE has a variety of webinars available on-demand to view at your convenience, many of which are available free-of-charge.

Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

MGH Institute of Health Professions

This webinar discussion focused on Anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The target audience is: Asian American students, families, and community members, though attendance was open to all who are interested. The session featured social justice educators, youth workers, community organizers, and academics.

The Intersection of Appreciative Advising and Inclusive Excellence

The Forum on Education Abroad

Using a personalized, strength-based approach to equitably advice and facilitate student success abroad.

Understanding and Supporting Asian International Students during COVID-19

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Professionals, educators and mental health experts to come together to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on international students. Professionals will provide a holistic view of the challenges that international students are facing and ways to support them, institution policies, and best practices. The webinar will provide concrete takeaways and tips to students and professionals to support international students during this unprecedented time.

COVID-19, Racism and Xenophobia: A Discussion on How and Why the Pandemic is Affecting Asian Americans

Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC)

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately harming all people of color in the United States. For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, one way this harm has manifested is in a rise in hate incidents. These incidents are fueled by both a long history of anti-Asian xenophobia and racism, and stigmatizing references to COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus.”

MAEC and the National Education Association engaged in a webinar and live conversation where, through interactive dialogue and audience participation, participants  examined the historical and current context of Anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) racism and xenophobia, distinguished between hate incidents and hate crimes, and identified actions we can all take to address bigotry and discrimination.

Dialogic Practices to Foster Community in Online Teaching

Center for Teaching and Learning

The CU Boulder advising community was invited to determine methods to integrate principles of dialogue in online learning that promote an inclusive student engagement and a sense of community in remote settings. This session shared forms of instructional design to open up space for students to share perspectives, personal experiences, and viewpoints in ways that expand content learning and build a sense of belonging in the online classroom. Participants left with both practical tools to implement in their own courses and a broader understanding of how dialogue can promote active learning. 

The CTL and CU Dialogues are offering a second session, open to anyone who attended this workshop (offered on July 15), where attendees will participate in a dialogue. This follow-up session will take place on Thursday, August 13, from 12:30-2:30pm. Read more and sign up for the dialogue here.

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COVID-19 Exposed: How the Coronavirus Outbreak Reveals Racism and Xenophobia

Asian Culture Center, Indiana University Bloomington

This panel discussion addressed how the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the Asian American community.

Building Coalition Against "China Initiative" Discrimination: Fighting Racial Targeting of Asain Americans and Communities of Color, Past & Present

APA Justice

Connecting current discrimination against Asian Americans and immigrants of Chinese descent within the historical framework of the treatment of Asian Americans, other immigrant communities, and communities of color in the U.S. is essential for building a broad coalition to support the legal and policy reforms necessary to protect the civil rights of all communities.
Because academic and research institutions are the targets of “China Initiative” investigations, we must also understand the needs of university leaders and create a platform for allies and civil rights organizations to support the students currently impacted by the latest wave of xenophobia. This webinar will focus on how to build these mechanisms for policy reform.

Ombuds Office: "Small Bites. Big Impact" Lunch and Learn Series - Topic: "Things Aren't Always As They Seem - How our Brains Create Errors and Biases"

Kirsi Aulin, Ombuds Director

Kirsi Aulin, CU Boulder Ombuds Office Director, briefly explores the research of Daniel Kahneman, illustrating that we are not as logical as we think.

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Issues Affecting Native American Communities During the COVID-19 Crisis

American Bar Association

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting Native American tribes and urban communities in ways that are unique to this population in terms of health challenges, economic impact and legal issues. This webinar discussed how Native Americans are being impacted through this crisis both from a health perspective and an economic perspective. This webinar is segmented into three parts: (1) first, a discussion of the provisions in the stimulus packages that are directed to Native communities; (2) second, the panelists discussed the unique health and operational challenges in both rural and urban Native communities; and (3) finally, this webinar addressed the economic and legal impact both in the short-term and long-term in tribal communities.

Ombuds Office: "Small Bites. Big Impact" Lunch and Learn Series - Topic: "Choosing To Grow In A Divided World"

Kerry Tay McLean, University of Colorado Boulder Ombuds Program Administrator

Kerry Tay McLean, CU Boulder Ombuds Program Administrator, encourages participants to think of the current state of affairs as an opportunity for growth.

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Campus Climate and the Experience of Students of Color

Dr. Becca Ciancanelli, Inclusive Pedagogy Lead, Center for Teaching & Learning

The CU Boulder advising community was invited to hear results from a previous CU climate survey data and learn about current DEI initiatives on campus. Using the student voice as a platform, we discussed inclusive practices that support typically underserved students, and how to create a welcoming environment. This session served as the first part in a three-part series of sessions from Dr. Becca Ciancanelli and was open to all advisors, coaches, and student services professionals in the advising community, not just those who also serve as instructors. The remaining two parts of the series will occur in Monthly Resources and will be aimed toward those who serve as instructors.

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Mini-Introduction to Intersectionality Theory for Advisors and Coaches

Sabrina Sideris, PhD; ​Program Director, INVST Community Studies

A deeper understanding of intersectionality theory, coined by Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, can help explain the roles of social institutions like CU in shaping people's life opportunities. Discussing how identities, positionality, and context matter for advisors and campus leaders can have an impact on our approaches to leadership and communication with students.  

In this session, participants move through a structured conversation and introspection process that helps us better understand how to advise CU Boulder students with identity and intersectionality in mind.

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Watch TED Talk on The Urgency of Intersectionality by Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw