New for June 2020: Racial Equity Resources
New for June 2020: LGBTQIA+ Resources
Professional Development Opportunities
- Online Training - Completion of two online training modules on the EverFi platform (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Sexual Harassment Prevention) is required of all university employees by January 2020. Online courses can be accessed from the Employee Dashboard within Banner.
- RISE Programs - RISE (Reinforcing Inclusion through Skill-building and Education) is a series of workshops and educational programs designed to equip our students, faculty and staff with the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to create inclusive living, learning, and working environments that are attentive to the particular needs of individuals experiencing marginalization. Click here to see scheduled events on the RISE calendar for 2020.
Curriculum
Other Campus Programs
Grants
The Mandel Foundation periodically awards funds to John Carroll University for the purpose of funding campus projects that advance diversity and inclusion on campus.
Funds are made available to all students, faculty, and staff who wish to organize programs to raise awareness about issues of diversity and inclusion, build respect for others, and create and promote a culture of inclusiveness. Programs funded by the Mandel Grants may be implemented in either the Fall or Spring Term.
Policies
Related Offices and Organizations
Additional Resources
Web-based resources for information, awareness and skill-building around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion
- Inclusive Teaching Resources from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan - excellent materials available here
- “Bridging the Research to Practice Gap: Achieving Mission-Driven Diversity and Inclusion Goals,” The College Board, March 2016
- Race on Campus – special issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015 – many excellent articles
- The Problem with Civility – Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 9, 2014
- Student Cross Racial Interactions- Perceptions of Faculty – in Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012, Vol. 5, No. 4
- The Evolving “ROI” of Chief Diversity Officers — in Insight: into Diversity
- 7 Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Student Parents in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 16, 2017
- Race on Campus – Special issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015
- Resources for Campus Leaders Crafting Messages in Response to Issues of Racial and Social Justice, from the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U).
- Diversity in Academe: The Age Issue - special issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 13, 2017
- Harvard’s Implicit Associations project — these brief exercises help individuals to identify their own subconscious biases and implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics.
- The Parable of the Polygons — segregation, diversity, and ‘tiny biases’: “a story about how harmless choices can make a harmful world.”
- Rethink Labels — a video by the Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio
- Language/Dialect Diversity on Campus — a video from North Carolina State University
- Black or White: Kids on Race — a series produced by CNN
- Ignatian Spirituality and Race — a series produced by Xavier University
- Are you Racist? — author Marlon James insists that we “stop being ‘non’ and start being ‘anti'” (2:05)
- Ignatian Spirituality and Race — a series produced by Xavier University
- Brooke Barnett and Peter Felten, eds., Intersectionality in Action: A Guide for Faculty and Campus Leaders for Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Institutions (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2016).
- Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2017).
- Kathleen A. Ross, Breakthrough Strategies: Classroom-Based Practices to Support New Majority College Students (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2016).
- Kimberly A. Costino, “Equity-Minded Faculty Development: An Intersectional Identity-Conscious Community of Practice Model for Faculty Learning,” Metropolitan Universities 29, no. 1 (2018).
- Emily Schuster, ed., “Intersectionality and Well-Being,” special issue, Diversity & Democracy 21, no. 1 (2018).
- Association of American Colleges and Universities, A Vision for Equity (Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2018).
*this brief bibliography was compiled by the scholars participating in “Preparing Professors for New-Majority Students in Higher Education.” retreats sponsored by the Bringing Theory to Practice initiative, operating in partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. More information at www.BTtoP.org.
- Statement of Catholic Theologians on Racial Justice
- The Racial Divide in the United States: A Reflection for the World Day of Peace 2015Most Rev. Edward K. Braxton, Ph. D., A.T.D., Bishop of Belleville, Illinois
- “How Women are Reshaping Jesuit Institutions” – March 2015 issue of Connections, the monthly publication of Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
- Difficult Conversations, One Bite at a Time – by Rev. Thomas Curran, S.J., President of Rockhurst University