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

2. 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

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

4. 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)

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

6. Cultural Identity

7. ACTIVITY

8. Campus Racial Climate Model

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

10. 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.)

11. Goals

12. BREAK

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

14. Lost Voices

15. 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.)

16. Examples of Microagressions

17. ACTIVITY

18. 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

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

20. THANK YOU
Questions?