Racial Tensions on Campus Creating a Classroom that Embodies Inclusive Excellence The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

What Are The Issues Political Climate Campus and Community Dynamics Lack of intentional, proactive communication that is educational in nature and solution driven Classroom Civility that is perpetuated by fear Lack of Proactive Vision

Frameworks Sense of Belonging (Maslow, A., 1954) Cultural Identity Theory (Bardhan & Orbe, 2012; Croucher, Sommier, & Rahmani, 2015.)

Sense of Belonging Student Success Lens: “Sense of belong for students within the school setting means students need to feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others within the school learning and social environment.” (Tinto and Pusser, 2006)

Cultural Identity Theory Relational Communication choices Behaviors Encompasses group identities such as protected classes Regional Identity Ethnolinguistic Identity Political Affiliation

Cultural Identity

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Campus Racial Climate Model

ISU Inclusive Excellence Model Talent Management Campus/Community Climate Pedagogy Engagement

Inclusive Excellence “The action of making excellence inclusive requires that we uncover inequities in student success, identify effective educational practices, and build such practices organically for sustained institutional change.” (Association of American Colleges & Universities.)

Goals

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Understanding Privlege “PRIVILEGE IS WHEN YOU THINK SOMETHING IS NOT A PROBLEM BEAUSE IT’S NOT A PROBLEM TO YOU PERSONALLY.”

Lost Voices

Understanding Microaggressions Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to targeted persons based solely upon margianalized group membership (from Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development, 2014) Microinsults are behaviors, actions, or verbal remarks that convey rudeness, insensitivity, or demean a person’s group or social identity or heritage (Sue, DW; Bucceri, J; Lin, Al; Nadal, KL, & Torino, GC, 2007). Microinvalidations are actions that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of people who represent different groups (Sue, et.al, 2007.)

Examples of Microagressions

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Biases vs. Discrimination Prejudices in favor of or against a thing, person or group in comparison to another, usually in a way that is perceived to be unfair. The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things

Classroom Civility Climate dynamics of ISU Understanding the Office of Equal Opportunity How to have difficulty conversations in the classroom

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