Colorado State University

It’s the back and bigger than ever! Join us October 23 – 27, 2023 for the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence. This year we are proud to partner with the CSU System – including CSU Pueblo, CSU Global, CSU Spur, Poudre School District, the City of Fort Collins and local community organizations. It’s going to be an exciting year! 

All are welcome to attend the workshops and events. Registration is required by subscribing here.

**Date Rescheduled**
If you previously registered for the 10/12 Zoom link, please submit new registration below

Please join us for a seminar by Dr. Terri Wright (CU Boulder, Assistant dean for access, inclusion, and student programs and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate program director) entitled Breaking Barriers: A survey of successful DEI initiatives in engineering.

Thursday, November 9, 2023

12-1PM

Scott Bioengineering 229 (in person) or via Zoom (Register here to receive the Zoom link)

Description: Dr. Wright will discuss a few DEI-focused programs and practices that have been successful in reducing racial equity gaps on U.S. campuses. She will discuss how these programs increase access and success for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other historically marginalized student populations. This seminar will examine recruitment and retention strategies that lead to improved graduation rates for historically marginalized students, provide an overview of the benefits of inclusive excellence in higher education, and inspire a call to action for advancing DEI in engineering in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

Part I of CSU’s DEI Foundations. In this training you’ll learn CSU’s definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); discuss why pursuing DEI is a best practice for any organization; and practice listening and storytelling as skillsets for understanding how we can better support our peers. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.

Part II of CSU’s DEI Foundations. This interactive session will explore unconscious bias: what it is, how it forms, how it can affect ourselves and our peers, and what we can do to mitigate our own unconscious biases moving forward. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.

Part III of CSU’s DEI Foundations. In this session participants will study the cycle of socialization, investigating how they came to hold certain beliefs about different populations through messages from family, media, and more. Participants will also discuss which social identity groups they are part of and how being a member of these groups impacts their lives. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.

Part IV of CSU’s DEI Foundations. Building on the content from Social Identities, participants will interrogate how being a member of various social identity groups exposes different people to systems of oppression, benefiting some groups while harming others. Participants will explore the three levels of inequalities: individual, institutional, and structural. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.

Part V of CSU’s DEI Foundations. In this session participants will learn how to include more inclusive language in their day to day lives, as well as come to a better understanding of what microaggressions are and how we can work to learn more about and limit them in our interactions with others. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.

Part VI of CSU’s DEI Foundations. In this culminating session of the Creating Inclusive Excellence program, participants will use everything they have learned in previous classes about microaggressions, unconscious bias, identity, and oppression to make an action plan for how to move forward incorporating these learnings into their daily lives, how to keep learning, and others tools for intervening in problematic situations. See available dates and register through CSU’s training site.