Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Access

The IDEA Division believes that all teaching and learning experiences should affirm the humanity of all people, where they are able to engage in self- and collective-reflective inquiry, develop a critical consciousness, and engage in dialogic conversations and ethical relationships with one another.

Foundations for Inclusive Excellence Curriculum

Foundations for Inclusive Excellence (FIE) is a series of four modules designed to equip staff, faculty, and student leaders with foundational concepts, shared lexicon, and practical tools for co-creating an antiracist and inclusive environment.

FIE 100 Series

Module 101, Recognizing Identities and Cultivating Conversations

Engage in critical thinking and discussions on socialization, and systems of power, differences between discomfort, hurt, and harm, and moving through difficult conversations.

Module 102, Building Integrative Awareness and Cultural Responsiveness

Identify and disrupt instances of microaggression, engage in critical self- and collective- reflective inquiry, and build the tools of cultural responsiveness.

Module 103, Doing the Work in Solidarity

Interrogate and learn the various forms of solidarity work on a continuum from allyship to accompliceship and co-conspiratorship.

Module 104, Applying the Foundations

Learn about personal and structural interventions for creating an inclusive and just environment

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FIE 200 Series

• Module 201: Deconstructing the Binary
• Module 202: Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma
• Module 203: Understanding Religious Diversity
• Module 204: Advancing Accessibility

FIE 301 Campus Action Project (CAP)

The culmination of the Foundations for Inclusive Excellence curriculum is the completion of a Campus Action Project (CAP), where staff and faculty synthesize their knowledge and skills to effectively enhance specific equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) related areas of interest.

Participants who successfully complete the four (4) modules of FIE 101 and two (2) modules of FIE 201 will be able to advance to developing the Campus Action Project. Prior to beginning the CAP, a description along with a projected timelines and budget proposal must be submitted to the IDEA Division for review.

Examples of CAP initiatives might include:

• Receiving professional development on becoming facilitators and trainers
• Development and implementation of divisional/departmental equity and access goals
• Enhanced curriculum to reflect a wide range of diverse and accessible content
• Roundtable discussion on specific topics related to current events, etc.
• Proposal of an initiative related to implementing equity and access goals
• Creation of new content, such as video, resource guides, etc.