Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Facilitation and Training
EIC provides educational offerings on a variety of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging-related topics. You are able to request a particular workshop, but know that we often reach out to requesters to clarify goals and intended outcomes in order to ensure that the best program is selected for your group. Many trainings can be either in person or online and can often be tailored to fit the needs of your group. To request a training, please email eicprogramming@drexel.edu.
For Students
Duration: 1-2 hours
- Part 1: Participants will learn the elements of a microaggression. They will be able to identify microaggressions and will be made aware of University resources, particularly reporting options, to address them.
- Part 2: Participants will explore where microaggressions come from and why their impact can be so deep and broad.
- Part 3: Participants will explore various methods to address microaggressions in the moment. They will develop an understanding of individual conflict management strengths and how to use them to address microaggressions.
Please note that each part can be presented separately in one-hour sessions. All three can be presented in one two-hour session.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Ever wonder why human beings naturally have implicit bias? Is it wrong to have implicit bias? Okay? Somewhere in between? What do we do when we become aware of an implicit bias? Participants will develop a shared language around implicit bias, develop an understanding of what bias is and what it is not, and explore how to mitigate bias.
Duration: 1.5 hours
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle
Increasingly, conversations about social justice, politics, religion and civil issues have become more and more divisive. So how can we have these conversations with each other in a way that is respectful and effective, and leaves all parties feeling heard, if not necessarily agreed with? Participants of this workshop will explore why “tough conversations” are so difficult to have, the difference between “polite conversation” and “civil dialogue” and how we can better engage in civil dialogue.
Duration: 1.5 hours
This workshop is designed to explore concepts and applications of allyship through the lens of the LGBTQ+ community and fight for equity. Participants will explore their own privilege, develop an understanding of how to use that privilege to be an effective ally and begin to build a shared language around the LGBTQ+ community.
Duration: one hour
Not sure who EIC is or what we do? This workshop is for you! Participants will develop an understanding of who EIC is at Drexel, what services we offer and what resources are available to them via our office with an emphasis on how to report incidents of sexual/gender-based violence, bias, discrimination and harassment.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes for all kinds of formal and informal groups, but one thing is true for all of them: Today, more than ever, we ask a lot of our leaders. This workshop allows participants to explore what the concept of inclusive leadership means to them and how they can use principles of inclusive leadership to be a more effective leader.
Duration: one hour
This facilitation is presented by a member of the Compliance Team from the Office for Institutional Equity and Inclusive Culture. Participants will gain an understanding of what policies require a mandated report when broken, what happens when EIC receives a report and resources for questions about the process.
Duration: 90 minutes
Not sure what to do in the moment? How to listen effectively without compromising your values? This workshop seeks to provide participants with space to discover their communication and conflict management strengths, explore worries they have about intervening in the moment and equip them with new tactics and strategies to intervene and de-escalate effectively.
Duration: 1.5+ hours
This inventory assesses individual and group cultural adaptability. This is a measurement of three variables: your understanding of your own cultural values, your understanding of cultural value differences, and how well you are able to adapt your behaviors, approaches and ideas to those differences. Please note that while the facilitation is free, the assessment itself is $13/student or $20/professional staff/faculty. Some fund assistance may be available.
Duration: 2+ hours
A restorative justice circle is a facilitated space for a community to discuss harmful behaviors or topics that are historically divisive with a goal towards repairing and/or strengthening the community. The topic can be selected/recommended by EIC staff or by the requester.
For Faculty and Staff
This workshop is designed to explore concepts and applications of allyship through the lens of the LGBTQ+ community and fight for equity. Participants will explore their own privilege, develop an understanding of how to use that privilege to be an effective ally and begin to build a shared language around the LGBTQ+ community.
Duration: 1.5 hours
This workshop is designed to explore concepts and applications of allyship through the lens of the LGBTQ+ community and fight for equity. Participants will explore their own privilege, develop an understanding of how to use that privilege to be an effective ally and begin to build a shared language around the LGBTQ+ community.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Faculty search committee members are considered the "gatekeepers" of the academy and bear responsibility for recruiting from a robust and diverse faculty applicant pool. During this workshop, an overview of inclusive faculty recruitment processes and practices will be provided, with a focus on how search committees can diversify applicant pools by discipline. Participants will discuss diversity and inclusion terms, including implicit bias, microaggressions and others. Relevant departmental, institutional, and national data will be explored, and participants will examine best practices for inclusive faculty searches.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Communicating effectively across differences is an important part of making sure that all our students and colleagues feel welcome, included and empowered to excel. In this interactive workshop, participants will work together to understand how speech and behavior can be implicitly invalidating or demeaning, and how to learn from and lead through those moments.
Duration: 1.5 hours
As we work towards building an inclusive culture of excellence, academic units and departments are seeking ways to establish initiatives and priorities that are sustained beyond present-day calls for racial equity. This workshop lays the foundation for departments to identify key areas of focus relative to departmental culture including inclusive hiring practices, social justice and anti-racist curriculum, incentive and reward systems, power dynamics and more. The primary goals are to co-create a departmental culture of inclusion and for participants to identify tangible, actionable items that will be prioritized moving forward.
Duration: 1.5 hours
The growing research on racial and other microaggressions cite the harm it can impose on faculty, professional staff and students from marginalized groups. The hierarchical structure of academic institutions may exacerbate this harm, with microaggressions evolving into microbullying and bullying, and contributing to a loss of productivity, poor health and high turnover. During this workshop, participants will engage with a variety of case studies underscoring microaggressions and bullying as well as the identity, power and status dynamics at play. We will discuss strategies to productively confront microaggressions and bullying, and how to mitigate these in everyday interactions with students and colleagues.
Duration: 1.5+ hours
This inventory assesses individual and group cultural adaptability. This is a measurement of three variables: your understanding of your own cultural values, your understanding of cultural value differences, and how well you are able to adapt your behaviors, approaches and ideas to those differences. Please note that while the facilitation is free, the assessment itself is $13/student or $20/professional staff/faculty. Some fund assistance may be available.
This facilitation is presented by a member of the Compliance Team from the Office of Institutional Equity and Inclusive Culture. Participants will gain an understanding of what policies require a mandated report when broken, what happens when EIC receives a report and resources for questions about the process.
Duration: 2+ hours
A restorative justice circle is a facilitated space for a community to discuss harmful behaviors or topics that are historically divisive with a goal towards repairing and/or strengthening the community. The topic can be selected/recommended by EIC staff or by the requester.
While EIC offers these trainings for faculty and staff both in person and online, we would also like to highlight the online trainings offered to Drexel faculty and professional staff through Career Pathway, including “Understanding Title IX” and “Respecting Individual Rights, Building Inclusive Community.” You can navigate to these programs by logging into Career Pathway and typing the title of the desired program into the search bar in the upper right corner of the screen.