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| Diversity Includes Everyone | Every person at Kent State is a unique individual, very different from anyone else on campus. In order to work effectively, we need to understand and embrace this concept. This workshop provides learners an opportunity to explore fundamental diversity concepts and develop an understanding of why differences should be valued. |
| My Identity is a Superpower - Not an Obstacle: America Ferrera | Video and Discussion: How can we encourage those around us to embrace their marginalized identities? Develop tangible ideas. |
| The Danger of a Single Story: Chimamanda Adichie | Video and Discussion: When have you ascribed to a single story and it led to misconceptions? When have you learned a deeper perspective and that led to self-growth or relational development? |
| Understanding and Responding to Discrimination and Harassment | Participants will gain a deeper understanding of discrimination and harassment through the interactive use of scenarios and discussion around real workplace application. |
| White Identity Exploration Workshop | TBA |
| Diversity and Inlcusion: Faculty and Staff | Diverse and inclusive higher education institutions offer many benefits to their students, employees, communities and society. It’s important to continue education in diversity and inclusion not only to remain in compliance, but also as a best practice. This course provides college and university faculty and staff members with a basic understanding of diversity and inclusion, as well as strategies to help maintain a discrimination-free environment. Topics include: terminology and regulations, identifying problematic behaviors and proactive strategies to increase diversity awareness. |
| Implicit Bias and Microagression Awareness | This course is designed to help course takers gain an understanding of what implicit bias and microaggressions are, the science behind these concepts and how to prevent imposing them on others. |
| Addressing Microagressions | Discover how everyday comments and actions can unintentionally hurt or harm someone. Participants will build skills and practice strategies to recognize and interrupt microaggressions. |
| Recognizing Bias | Various people, institutions and organizations help shape the way we view the world, sometimes in inaccurate ways. Participants will learn to identify implicit and explicit biases and explore strategies for challenging them in ourselves and others. |
| Creating Accessible Digital Documents | Learn the accessibility features of and best practices for PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point. Session includes hands-on practice and accompanying open-lab time. Open to students, staff, and faculty. |
| Creating Accessible Digital Marketing | Learn best practices for creating accessible social media posts, emails, newsletters, videos, and digital displays. Session includes hands-on practice and accompanying open-lab time. Open to students, staff, and faculty. Highly recommended for content writers and communications employees, both staff and student. |
| White Allyship | Do you want to learn how to better be in solidarity with people of Color? This training explores what racism and bias are, the concept of privilege, and what allyship looks like. Participants will then identify and explore specific action steps one can take to advance racial justice. |
| Animals on Campus: A Furry Endeavor | Have you noticed an increase in animals on our campus? Join staff from General Counsel and Student Accessibility Services to learn more about service animals, emotional/assistance animals, and service animals in training. This webinar will review the roles of these animals on a college campus, the laws that impact each type of animal, and Kent State policies and procedures regarding each animal. |
| Discrimination Station Workshop | This workshop discusses different instances of bias or discrimination and ways to address them in a productive and healthy way. This workshop is meant to be interactive and help develop an understanding of what bias and discrimination are as well as learn ways to engage around these conflicts in healthy ways. |
| Making School Safe and Inclusive for Transgender Students | It's educators' jobs to nurture the education of students, and the need to respect all students must supersede any feelings about a student’s gender identity. This course will explore challenges faced by transgender students and how educators can communicate with respect and caring. Topics covered include what it means to be transgender and ways to promote tolerance in the classroom. |
| Moving Beyond 'Man Up' When You Are Faculty and Staff | Engaging faculty and staff in conversations around masculinity and fostering actions that promote positive prosocial behavior is important in prevention of sexual and relationship violence in our community. Moving Beyond ‘Man Up’ is a grassroots initiative, involving discussions, events, and programming focused on the roles that masculinity can play in not only harmful behavior but also in the prevention of harmful behavior. How does faculty staff “move beyond man up”? How do we unpack and address situations and conversations that may be examples of “toxic” masculinity? Join us as we engage in the next level of conversation surrounding masculinity and the role it plays in making our campus safer. |
| Social Perspective Workshop | Social Perspective Sharing the first step in Kent State’s Student Multicultural Center and Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s Training Lab to help our campus community engage with a variety of difference in an empathetic manner. This workshop will help lay the foundation for participants to grow in their ability to connect with people from different backgrounds. By helping people come to a common understanding of the concepts around different identities, reflecting on their most salient identities and hearing from others about their identities, this workshop will help individuals learn language and techniques to learn the basics around engaging with people who have different identities than their own. |
| What is Neurodiversity? | Join us for a discussion on changing the way neurodiversity is viewed from an all-encompassing characteristic to a facet of one's identity. This will be done by discussing what stigmas are present, why the term neurodiversity was coined and how we can reframe our thoughts. |
| Diversity Awareness: Staff-to-Staff | The goal of this course is to provide staff with an awareness of how a diverse workforce strengthens an organization. The course examines behaviors, both unintentional and intentional, that can discriminate or contribute to a hostile work environment. It also discusses ways to respond or even intervene in discriminatory acts that are in concert with your organization's policies and showcase positive reinforcing behaviors that show respect and appreciation for staff who are different than you. |
| The Listening Project | The Listening Project aims to foster stronger working relationships among colleagues through intentional dialogue across difference. The program is organized by pairing participants based on factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, or a related workplace difference. Trained coaches foster dialogue between partners in cluster sessions on topics that range from getting to know one another to views on race. Goals of the program include: building of relationships among individuals that normally may not develop a relationship; increased understanding of diversity and inclusion, gender, ethnic and race differences; and, improve the climate and success of diversity at KSU through building trust and credibility. |
| Safe Space: Trans 101 | the second step in the safe space ally training series. This training will allow participants to understand the concept of privilege, provide basic information and language, and give recommendations for how to work in solidarity with the trans community. You must complete Safe Space Ally Training before you can participate in Trans 101. |
| 3 Ways to be a Better Ally in the Workplace: Melinda Epler | Video and Discussion: Review the Allyship continuum. Where would you consider yourself in your journey of allyship and why? Provide examples of when you believed you enacted your allyship. |
| Accessibility for Webmasters 201: Strategy | In this workshop, we’ll review the important concepts learned throughout the 101 and 201 courses and see how they fit into creating a long term and sustainable web accessibility strategy for your department or divisional website. We’ll teach you how to explain your new accessibility strategy to others, help you leverage the strengths of teammates for greater accessibility, and show you how to be an advocate for digital accessibility in areas beyond web development. |
| Camps on Campus: Keeping Minors Safe | Minors are on our campuses more often than we may think. Minors participate in a number of camps on campus, and need to be safe during this time. Therefore, it is important that those who work with minors as part of camp activities on college or university campuses receive child abuse prevention training. The material in this course provides strategies for recognizing, preventing, and reporting child abuse. |
| Working Towards Equity | Have you noticed the conversation shift towards equity and away from equality? This session will examine why. Participants will explore the concept of equity and begin to understand individual and institutional detours to achieving it. |
| Allies, Advocates, and Accomplicies Workshop | This training will allow participants to develop an understanding of their roles as bystanders, as it relates to people of color. Although someone may not identify with a particular culture or racial/ethnic identity, this does not mean you cannot demonstrate support in some way. We are all in different places as it relates to the way we show support. This training will help participants identify where they are in their journey and tangible ways to demonstrate support as an Ally, Advocate or Accomplice. |
| Avoiding Discriminatory Practices discrimination, SafeColleges: Avoiding Discriminatory Practices | As a supervisor, it is essential to establish and maintain a respectful and positive environment. This course provides supervisors with an overview of some best practices to help manage a diverse environment, avoid discriminatory behaviors and create a culture that embraces acceptance and respect for all. |
| Accessibility for Webmasters 201: Toolbox and Auditing | In this workshop, we’ll use Siteimprove’s Quality Assurance and Accessibility modules to quickly identify, prioritize and fix issues on your website, teach you to audit and remediate your content more effectively, and explore Siteimprove’s built-in reporting tools to help you keep track of the progress you make and share that information with the people who need it. |
| How Diversity Makes Teams more Innovative: Rocio Lorenzo | Video and Discussion: How can we consider diversity as a commodity to innovation? What is the difference between understanding diversity and valuing diversity? |
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