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New Blog! Leading with Diversity

Leading With Diversity: Professional Development for Faculty, Staff and Students

Lawrence University strives to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion by creating easily accessible resources for Professional Development for faculty, staff and students. Leading with Diversity blog lives under the Resources on the Diversity and Inclusion webpage go.lawrence.edu/13472 

Check back each month for topical materials to build awareness and skills for cultural competency.

Sometimes Disabilities are Invisible.    

Wed, 02/06/2019 – 1:47pm 

“When one is disabled, the problem is not really that they have impairments and social skill deficits. The issue at stake is that they live in an ‘ableist’ culture that rarely affords them the space or opportunity to make their unique contribution to society and does not lift up the value of choosing them as … 

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2019 Multicultural Calendar “The Power of Inclusion” – Download Available

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is providing an electronic multicultural calendar to all faculty, staff and students. You can add the multicultural calendar to your personal Outlook calendar. This calendar includes:

  • Dates with explanations for each of the world’s twelve major religions and the cultural festivals of most ethnic groups in North America.
  • Religions of Aboriginal Peoples, Bahai, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islam, Jain, Jewish, Shinto, Sikh, Wicca and Zoroastrian.
  • Cultural Festivals of over 140 countries including Afro-Canadian/American, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Caribbean, China, Denmark, United Kingdom, Egypt and many more.
  • Heritage Months for USA, Canada and UK

Click here to get your 2019 Multicultural Calendar “The Power of Inclusion.”

Cultural Competency Lecture on Islamphobia – February 12

Islam in America: The Success Story of Dearborn, Michigan

Professor Martyn Smith | February 12, 2019, 11:15 a.m. | Hurvis 225

For the past eight years Prof. Martyn Smith has taken students to visit mosques and speak with Muslim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan. This small city just outside Detroit is home to one of the largest concentrations of Arabs outside the Middle East. The population of Dearborn is comprised largely of immigrants from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. The City stands as an American success story in religious pluralism. Prof. Smith along with some students who have made the trip to Dearborn will discuss the history of the city and provide a firsthand view of the welcome received at the religious institutions of the city. The story of Dearborn is one that will renew our sense that the American vision of community is still working.

Please scan QR to let us know you are coming or go to: go.lawrence.edu/13276

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Workshop: Navigating Conflict on the Journey Toward Reconciliation – February 8

Navigating Conflict on the Journey Toward Reconciliation: An Interactive Workshop on Skills for Understanding and Navigating Conflict

February 8, 2019 ● Esch Studio (224) ● Two Signup Options: Half Day 9am to 12pm or Full Day 9am to 5pm

PART 1: Participants will learn introductory skills for navigating conflicts and handling tense moments in conversations around identity. (9am – Noon)

PART 2: The afternoon portion will provide further learning around understanding and navigating conflict situations. Participants will also learn about tools for de-escalation and addressing community conflict. Lunch will be provided for those attending both sessions. (Noon to 5pm)

Participants are invited to attend either the full workshop from 9-5 or just the morning portion from 9-12. Anyone looking for substantial skill building around navigating and deescalating conflict should plan to attend the full 8 hours. The workshop will be facilitated by a representative of the Sustained Dialogue Institute.

To register go to: go.lawrence.edu/13276  or scan QR:

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Checking the Box “Diversity-Related Event or Gathering”

Checking the Box “Diversity-Related Event or Gathering” 

Using the LU Room Reservation System?
Have you noticed that new checkbox under “Details”?
The one that says “Diversity-Related Event or Gathering”?

To create a more inclusive Lawrence, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Diversity and Intercultural Center encourage the campus community to be aware of upcoming events, organizations, services, workshops, and ongoing initiatives in the areas of diversity, inclusion, and equity.

When you are making a room reservation in the LU system, selecting the “Diversity-Related Event or Gathering” box allows you to indicate that your program, meeting, class, or event could be characterized in this way. This is an excellent way to attract more people to your event!

Whether it is in the Warch Campus Center, the Diversity and Intercultural Center, or anywhere on campus, ask yourself if the event you’re planning enhances diversity and inclusion. If the answer is yes, then click the box. It’s as simple as that!

By clicking the box, you’re also communicating the details of your event via the SRL webpage under Campus Diversity Updates & News.

A Stone of Hope Exhibit – January 14-18

Walk through this exhibit in the Warch Campus Center anytime January 14th through the 18th.

Exhibit Description: Before 1900, the Fox Cities were home to a growing Black population of Civil War veterans, small business owners and community leaders. Losing hope, most Blacks left the area by 1920 due to increasing harassment from police, racial exclusion at hotels, racial covenants barring home ownership and minstrelsy advertising and entertainment.

The exhibit also addresses Appleton’s past sundown custom and racial exclusion from 1915 to 1961, and how the Fox Cities emerged from this mountain of despair during the Civil Rights Era.

To share this history, the exhibit includes twelve floor banners, each richly illustrated with photographs of individuals, businesses and events described in the narrative. A kiosk with oral history videos of current Black residents helps demonstrate how Appleton has moved forward, but also that more work toward equality is needed. (http://www.myhistorymuseum.org/a-stone-of-hope.html)

Upstander Training with Fit Oshkosh – January 24

January 24, 2019 ● 5 to 9 p.m. ●  Esch Studio (224), Warch Campus Center

Upstander Training prepares participants to intervene safely and appropriately when witnessing incidents of discrimination, harassment or harm. Participants engage with real-life scenarios to enable them to effectively identify and challenge negative narratives and behaviors. Become an agent for change and foster a positive of culture of safety and respect in your places of influence.

Please click here to sign up >> http://go.lawrence.edu/13276

Anti-Racism 101: Practices for White Faculty/Staff in a Multicultural Community – January 17

Anti-Racism 101: Practices for White Faculty/Staff in a Multicultural Community
January 17 at 4:30 pm in the Hurvis Room (Warch Campus Center)
An introduction to essential ideas and practices for faculty and staff who identify as white. This session will offer practical suggestions for colleagues to speak and act in more inclusive ways.
  • if you’ve heard terms like privilege, implicit bias, or micro-aggressions but aren’t entirely sure what they are, how to recognize them, or what you can do about them…
  • if you are uncomfortable talking about race…
  • if you have questions about race or privilege that you’re embarrassed to ask about…
  • if you feel that you treat everyone equally and don’t understand why that is not enough…
  • if you have noticed that you have unconscious biases about race but feel paralyzed about what to do next…
 …then this event is for you.
This event is hosted by the Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG), a gathering of staff and faculty who identify as white and are engaged in personal and professional development to understand and challenge racism.

Anti-Racism Study Group for Faculty and Staff

The Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG) is a gathering of Lawrence staff and faculty seeking to understand and challenge racism. Recognizing that anti-racist work is disproportionately borne by people of color, ARWAG is a setting for white people to take responsibility for educating ourselves about racism and for challenging white supremacy from the inside. Organized as a study group, ARWAG will read and discuss materials that help us understand how racism operates, especially in its insidious forms that are harder for white people to notice in action—white privilege, unconscious / implicit bias, and structural racism.

To join the ARWAG Moodle group and get information on upcoming meetings and readings, please contact Emmy Wilson (Emily.r.wilson@lawrence.edu) or Jenna Stone (stonej@lawrence.edu).

We change our meeting day and time each term. For Winter Term, our meetings will be Thursdays 1/24, 2/7, and 2/21 at 4:30.

Interested in finding a space to talk and learn about race, but not sure if ARWAG is for you?

If you are a faculty or staff member who identifies primarily as white, and…

  • if you aren’t entirely sure what “privilege” is or how you may have benefited from it;
  • if you are uncomfortable talking about race;
  • if you have questions about race or privilege that you’re embarrassed to ask about;
  • if you feel that you treat everyone equally and don’t understand why that is not enough;
  • if you have noticed that you have unconscious biases about race but don’t know what to do about it;
  • if you have noticed ways that you participate in structures or systems or networks that are race-neutral on the surface but, in practice, perpetuate racist outcomes;
  • if you want to be part of the solution and work toward a more racially equitable and just society;

If one or more of these sound like you … then this study group is for you.

Anti-Racism Study Group for Faculty & Staff

The Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG) is a gathering of Lawrence staff and faculty seeking to understand and challenge racism. Recognizing that anti-racist work is disproportionately borne by people of color, ARWAG is a setting for white people to take responsibility for educating ourselves about racism and for challenging white supremacy from the inside. Organized as a study group, ARWAG will read and discuss materials that help us understand how racism operates, especially in its insidious forms that are harder for white people to notice in action—white privilege, unconscious / implicit bias, and structural racism.

To join the ARWAG Moodle group and get information on upcoming meetings and readings, please contact Emmy Wilson (Emily.r.wilson@lawrence.edu) or Jenna Stone (stonej@lawrence.edu).

We change our meeting day and time each term. For Winter Term, our meetings will be Thursdays 1/24, 2/7, and 2/21 at 4:30.

Interested in finding a space to talk and learn about race, but not sure if ARWAG is for you?

If you are a faculty or staff member who identifies primarily as white, and…

  • if you aren’t entirely sure what “privilege” is or how you may have benefited from it;
  • if you are uncomfortable talking about race;
  • if you have questions about race or privilege that you’re embarrassed to ask about;
  • if you feel that you treat everyone equally and don’t understand why that is not enough;
  • if you have noticed that you have unconscious biases about race but don’t know what to do about it;
  • if you have noticed ways that you participate in structures or systems or networks that are race-neutral on the surface but, in practice, perpetuate racist outcomes;
  • if you want to be part of the solution and work toward a more racially equitable and just society;

If one or more of these sound like you … then this study group is for you.