Building Toward Equity - Racial Equity Workshops

AY 2024-25

The Office for University Diversity and Inclusion (OUDI) and the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)'s Faculty Associates for DEI in Teaching are offering a range of racial equity workshops as part of the Building Toward Equity faculty development program this academic year. The Building Toward Equity program scaffolds DEI learning to develop faculty awareness, knowledge, and skills around issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching and learning.  

Registration

Please visit the Trauma Healing for Educators of Color page to register for this workshop. Please visit Racial Equity Workshops Registration to register for all other workshops. 

For two-part workshops, please either register for parts 1 and 2, or for part 1 only; participants who attend part 2 should have also attended part 1. Though focused on topics related to classroom teaching, staff are welcome to attend as noted. 

Upcoming Workshops: Fall 2024

All workshops (unless noted) will be held from 10:00 am- 12:00 pm on Fridays. 

Community Cultural Wealth and Asset-Based Teaching

• Part 1: November 15, on Zoom (open to all faculty and staff)
• Part 2: November 22, primarily in-person with Zoom option, if needed (open to all faculty and staff; teaching-focused)

Marginalized students have unique cultural strengths that often go unrecognized in typical classrooms; further, these students' behaviors are often seen as weaknesses or shortcomings that need to be changed. This workshop is a 2-hour interactive session that will focus on defining and identifying deficit- and strengths-based perspectives on marginalized students in the classroom. Faculty members will also have an opportunity to modify their syllabi, teaching practices, and/or their assignments to better harness the cultural wealth that marginalized students bring to the classroom. 

Trauma Healing for Educators of Color 

• Wednesday, November 20 from 4:00-7:00 pm (In person; open to faculty and staff)

Faculty and staff of color in academia often experience a range of microaggressions, racism, and are overburdened with service and mentorship requirements compared to their White counterparts. This workshop provides a space for faculty and staff of color at Cal Poly to process those experiences in ways that result in healing from those negative, and often traumatic, experiences that are common among faculty of color at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). For an extended description see Trauma Healing for Educators of Color.

Past Workshops: Fall 2023, Winter 2024

• Linguistic Justice, March 8 (On Zoom; open to faculty and staff)
• Power Dynamics in the Classroom: Becoming an Antiracist Educator, October 20 (On Zoom; open to faculty and staff)
• Trauma Healing for Educators of Color, November 1, 4:30-7:30 pm
• Community Cultural Wealth and Asset-Based Teaching (Part 1), November 17 (On Zoom; open to faculty and staff)
• Community Cultural Wealth and Asset-Based Teaching (Part 2), December 1