Workshops and Training for Faculty and Staff
Navigating Microaggressions and Bias
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: Learn to recognize and disrupt bias and microaggressions, understand where biases stem from, and develop skills to use your role to create a more inclusive community.
Amount of Time Needed: 1.5 hours
Access Workshop Recording: Linked in Canvas under the course entitled Faculty & Staff Professional Development Resources
If you have not accessed a professional development course on Canvas, please self-enroll here before attempting to access a course.
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
A Student-Centered Approach to Creating Inclusive Classrooms
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: There is a heightened need to create an inclusive on-line and in-class academic experience for students. Learn about specific actions and strategies you can employ to create an environment that supports our increasingly diverse students. Topics include:
1. Inclusive language and foundational concepts
2. Actionable practices and clear next steps
3. How to respond to inevitable mistakes when conducting this work
Amount of Time Needed: 1.5 hours
Access Workshop Recording: Linked in Canvas under the course entitled Faculty & Staff Professional Development Resources
If you have not accessed a professional development course on Canvas, please self-enroll here before attempting to access a course.
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Understanding Bias: How to Mitigate the Impact on Faculty Careers
Affiliated Office(s): Center for Faculty Engagement & Advancement
Workshop Description: Dr. Eve Riskin, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Faculty Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington discusses bias and its influence on the evaluation of faculty performance and promotion. Topics include:
1. Basics of bias
2. Impact of bias on faculty careers
3. Strategies to interrupt bias
Amount of Time Needed: 1.5 hours
Access Workshop Recording: Linked in Canvas under the course entitled Faculty & Staff Professional Development Resources
If you have not accessed a professional development course on Canvas, please self-enroll here before attempting to access a course.
Safe Zone for Faculty and Staff
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: The Stevens Safe Zone Ally Program is a campus-wide initiative designed to educate Stevens community members on LGBTQ+ identity, terminology, current (in)justices impacting the LGBTQ community, and visibly identify Stevens staff, students, and faculty who seek to support the campus' LGBTQ population as allies.
Amount of Time Needed: 1.5 hours
Contact Email Address: safezone@stevens.edu
Green Zone Advocate Training
Affiliated Office(s): Office of the Registrar and Stevens Veterans & Military Connected Services
Workshop Description: Green Zone Advocate Training is an initiative to support military-connected students. Volunteer participants are identified by a Green Zone emblem located outside their office door and/or their syllabus. This program helps advocates provide supportive services necessary to ensure that military-connected students are successful in their academic pursuits, adjust to the campus environment, and eventually transition to civilian employment. This self-paced program is offered on Canvas through a series of modules. You may complete the training in one sitting or break it up between several days. To enroll fill out this short form.
Amount of Time Needed: 1-2 hours
Contact Email Address: jholmesk@stevens.edu
Beyond Your Bias
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: Learn to identify different types of bias, understand where biases stem from, and develop skills to acknowledge and move past one’s bias.
Amount of Time Needed: 1.5 hours
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Anti-Racist Leadership (Parts I & II)
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: Participants will gain a foundational understanding of racism, understand the difference between non-racist and anti-racist, build skills and tools to work through an anti-racist lens, and reflect on personal understanding and commitment to anti-racism.
Amount of Time Needed: 1 hour (2.5 hours for both Part I & Part II)
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Cross-Cultural Communication & Conflict Resolution Skills
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: By participating in this workshop you will have the opportunity to learn skills for listening and sharing through a cross-cultural framework, build capacity in giving and receiving feedback, especially on communication needs, identities and microaggressions, and better understand your own identities, triggers, and communication style.
Amount of Time Needed: 1 hour
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Building an Inclusive Community
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: Reflect on your role as member of the Stevens community and responsibility to build an inclusive community. Learn about social justice vocabulary, microaggressions, and allyship and brainstorm ways to cultivate an inclusive community in partnership with others.
Amount of Time Needed: 1 hour
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Allyship, Privilege & Microaggressions
Affiliated Office(s): Office of Student Culture and Belonging
Workshop Description: By participating in this workshop, participants will learn the definition and history of microaggressions, brainstorm how to build an inclusive community at Stevens, learn the concepts of allyship and privilege, and build skills to recognize and disrupt microaggressions.
Amount of Time Needed: 1 hour
Contact Email Address: studentbelonging@stevens.edu
Please note that custom workshops are available.
Additional Resources for Faculty & Staff
LinkedIn Learning Path: Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging for All
This transformative LinkedIn Learning Path reviews current thinking and best practices on essential topics such as bias in all its forms, cultural competence, communication, allyship, and accountability.
LinkedIn Learning Path: Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging for All for Leaders and Managers
In this LinkedIn Learning Path, leaders can learn how to recognize the business need for DIBs, create a truly inclusive workplace, communicate honestly and effectively, recognize their own biases, and accept the differences of others.
Anti-Racism: Faculty Resources for Continued Learning
Please see this annotated list of anti-racism articles, books, videos and podcasts compiled specifically for faculty.
Samuel C. Williams Library Resources
Among other resources, the Samuel C. Williams Library has developed a resource guide to provide information about systemic racism, and how to combat and support anti-racist struggle and practice in our daily lives, places of work and institutions of learning.
