Symposium overview
The Symposium for Inclusive Excellence
The Symposium for Inclusive Excellence is a jam-packed week of incredible workshops, powerful guest speakers, and thoughtful events centered around diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. All are welcome to attend the workshops and events. The 2024 Symposium for Inclusive Excellence has ended. Videos from the event will be available soon. Check back soon for information about the 2025 event.
About the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence
Beginning in 2001 with a one day event, Symposium for Inclusive Excellence (formerly the Diversity Symposium) has now grown into a week-long conference featuring dozens of sessions relating to diversity and inclusion, cutting-edge research presentations, a variety of keynote speakers, and a strand focused specifically on educators.
In addition to longer format talks, a highlight of CSU’s Symposium for Inclusive Excellence is CSU Inspire. This featured event brings 5-10 TED Talk-like sessions led by CSU faculty, staff, and students and focused on sharing engaging and inspiring initiatives happening on our campus in relation to social justice, in short 8-minute presentations.
Frequently Asked Questions
This video provides an in-depth overview of our new platform, Ring Central. It includes comprehensive instructions on the registration process, highlights the key features available within the platform, and offers guidance on how to effectively navigate it to enhance your experience at this year's symposium.
We welcome all! The Symposium for Inclusive Excellence is open to CSU employees, students, CSU alumni, affiliates, and local community members. Registration is required for all attendees.
Registration is required for all attendees and only takes a few minutes.
Register using the link at the top of the Symposium page. You will receive a confirmation email where you can access the event site. You will not be able to access parts of the event platform until the week of the symposium.
No, we are not using Zoom this year. All sessions will be accessible through the event platform. This will eliminate the need to register for individual workshops. Some events do require an additional ticket. They will be noted in the platform.
Yes! Many sessions will be recorded and made available after the live Symposium for Inclusive Excellence is complete. The replay will be available in January 2025.
All workshops will be online in 2024. Various special events will be available for anyone locally. Additional tickets will be required due to space limitations.
Sign language interpreters will be available at all events during the week. Additionally, computer-generated captioning will be enabled for all virtual sessions through the Zoom platform.
For additional accessibility accommodations, please contact Amber Sanchez at amber.sanchez@colostate.edu.
While the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence has always been a popular event at CSU, since moving online we have seen registration numbers dramatically increase. To help us navigate the increase in attendance, please keep the following information and tips in mind:
- Be respectful of presenter(s)’ time and energies. All presentations are being hosted by our peers and colleagues within the CSU community and for many folks, this may be the first time they are presenting to such large audiences (in the virtual environment or otherwise). Thanks for your understanding and patience in advance!
- If you are in a session that is using the meeting format (meaning attendees can engage in the traditional Zoom setting using their video and audio as appropriate), please join the meeting with your mic muted and be sure your username reflects your name appropriately. Listen to the presenter and moderator’s prompts and only utilize your mic when asking a question or when instructed to.
- With so many moving parts, there are bound to be some changes to the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence schedule. Please be sure to rely on the emails and the Symposium website for the most up-to-date information.
Symposium quick reference
- Read the 2023 Symposium for Inclusive Excellence recap report.
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- Symposium contact: Email Amber Sanchez (she/her/hers)
DETAILS:
- Monday-Friday October 21-25, 2024
- Virtual presentations and special events in person