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Movement building depends on how we create and maintain relationships, and leveraging our personal relationships is one way individuals can support community efforts. However, even when deeply committed to equity and justice, it can be difficult to know how or when to show up for each other. This is why we need to better organize ourselves! This interactive session will explore emergent strategies that can make it easier to share information and calls to action through our personal networks. We aim to nurture a local culture of proactive community responsiveness by staying connected and accountable in how we move together. Community organizers, members of advocacy groups, and anyone who wants to be part of creating change on a local level are highly encouraged to participate.

This session will discuss the complexities within the Latine community and explore the concept of Latinidad across multiple dimensions of identity. The intention of this session is to broaden our awareness and knowledge about what communities constitute the Latine community and how CSU works to create a space of belonging through language and practice rooted in institutional values.

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This presentation invites faculty and staff participants at all levels to share key elements and insights from the first offering of “the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project” at the College of Natural Sciences in Spring 2023. The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project is a national professional development program designed to help faculty and advisors in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields incorporate and expand inclusive practices for student success into their teaching and mentoring. This effort disseminates effective teaching strategies to create an inclusive and culturally respectful environment.

Therefore, diversity and multiculturalism — through the lenses of ability, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic, cultural, and beyond — can be promoted in our classroom. To improve students’ learning experiences and likelihood of success, educators should refine their strategies, methods, and materials based on literature-based best practices. This presentation strives to facilitate instructor exploration of these ideas, to provide strategies, methods and resources to utilize in the classroom for participants.

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The Community Resilience Model (CRM) teaches 6 practices for helping to support communities with high stress and trauma. In this introductory session you will learn basics about your nervous system, and some of the practices that can support your and other's wellbeing. This information and these practices can be easily shared with students, colleagues, and friends and family. As a part of Student Success Initiatives, CSU has been able to train a teaching team to help our university learn the Community Resilience Model in order promote collective care and a culture of wellbeing.

The Dos and Don’ts of DEI Data, Metrics and Reporting is a one-hour deep dive learning experience for HR and DEI leaders, practitioners and consultants driving organizational change by integrating a data driven approach to DEI.  In this fast-paced session, we’ll cover:

• Measurement frameworks and mental models that are right-sized for your organization, industry, and DEI journey
• Case examples on metrics across diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Reporting in the context of your organizational challenges so that you can make a case for investment in the problems you’re trying to solve.

Outline:

• Introduction: The state of DEI
  • DEI under attack
  • How data helps us push back
• How to think about measuring DEI
  • Measuring Diversity – dimensions of diversity and self-ID campaigns
  • Measuring Inclusion – how to build effective quantitative and qualitative measurement programs
  • Measuring Equity – how to build equity into people processes
  • A step-by-step guide to measuring DEI initiatives: outcome mapping (interactive)
• DEI Reporting
  • Why reporting is so important in DEI
  • Dos and Don’ts by audience (Leadership, employees, boards, external audiences)
• Questions and Discussion

In this interactive session, we will discuss the research on microaggressions, including that in psychology and higher education. We will define microaggressions as working in one direction to harm people with marginalized identities (Solórzano et al., 2000). Our definition will follow the scholarly literature to focus on the impact of microaggressions rather than the intent.

We will review types of microaggressions, including those identified by Sue et al., (2007) referred to as micro assaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations. We will also discuss another category of stealth microaggressions (Nishi, 2021). Participants will learn about the different categories of microaggressions and how they impact and harm people with marginalized identities.

The facilitator will lead participants in an exercise to apply this learning to different scenarios. We will conclude the session with a discussion around responding, intervening, and supporting people harmed by microaggressions, and give participants suggested language that can begin to alleviate harm done rather than harm further.

This presentation shares preliminary observations about a workshop titled, “Talking Across Difference: A Critical Arts-based Intersectional Healing Justice Workshop for International Students” conducted at CSU in April 2023. Workshop facilitators created a “cultural commons” where U.S. and international students could exchange ideas and experiences of cultural, gender, and racial bias. Asian international students were specifically selected because they make up nearly three quarters of all students studying in the U.S. from other countries. Project facilitators were motivated by the idea that learning to talk across differences helps build awareness and advocacy around cultural, gender and racial experiences in the U.S. during increasingly contentious times.

This presentation shares observations about creating a space where workshop participants can authentically talk about social differences. Facilitators introduce the workshop design and framework used to structure workshop activities, and demonstrate how art-based explorations, critical dialogue, and mindfulness practices encouraged self-awareness and self-knowledge regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion among international students.

Designing multi-faceted, active recruiting strategies for your department is essential for successful talent acquisition and fostering an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Active recruiting transcends the traditional assumption that candidates are actively seeking open positions and instead focuses on proactive engagement with a diverse range of exceptional candidates.

Through forging individual connections, we empower talents from all backgrounds, fostering a vibrant and inclusive community. Departments who engage in year-round, ongoing recruitment strategies have the potential to make a significant impact. By maintaining continuous recruitment efforts, we can generate robust, diverse applicant pools.

In this workshop presentation, you will learn about inclusive and best practices and have the opportunity to develop an ongoing, comprehensive recruitment plan for your unit or department that strategically promotes active recruitment practices at every opportunity (even when searches are not currently happening).

By embracing this proactive approach, you contribute to a culture of inclusivity and set the foundation for a thriving and diverse workforce.

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Inclusiveness is about making sure equal opportunities exist for all those involved in a particular activity or process. Inclusiveness in an online learning environment is about providing the needed tools and accommodations to all individuals with the desire to learn and be successful; to move forward, participate, collaborate, and shine.

Fostering inclusivity in an online learning environment is about creating an ethical compromise that will promote growth and innovation. It is about establishing guidelines that all employees will follow, promote, and believe in, to make sure the organization provides equal opportunities to all students.

This presentation, Embedding the Library into Curriculum for more Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will present thought provoking and research-based practices about how including Library resources and staff into curriculum can have benefits for student success. The Libraries are at the center of learning and research, and are now growing to become centers for inclusive pedagogy and teaching practices, safe spaces for students, and more. This session will focus on how teaching faculty, especially those teaching first year and second year courses, can intentionally build library resources into their curriculum to create engaging and inclusive learning experiences for their students.

This interactive session explores a five step model to increase representation of marginalized voices in curriculum of any discipline, with consideration to tokenism, pedagogical design, and ethics surrounding students, authors, and ourselves.

Inclusive learning practices have been given well-deserved increased attention in recent years. But, there are different and additional considerations to ensure an inclusive environment in online learning. In fact, inclusive teaching practices may be particularly critical to utilize in distance education because of the demographics, differing instructional needs, and unique challenges present for online learners.

Fortunately, many distance education practitioners and researchers have realized this and good online practices are often synonymous with inclusive practices. We have compiled these practices into a toolkit to provide designers and instructors of distance education applicable ideas they can immediately use. The toolkit encompasses five main areas of consideration for distance education: design, teaching approaches, discussion, assessment, and interactions.

Each area includes subtopics with specific tips for inclusive practices as well as additional resources. During this session, the presenters will discuss how this toolkit was developed and show how it can be used by distance educators to improve their own inclusive teaching practices. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using the toolkit.

After a meteoric rise in 2020, it is no secret that DEI positions and initiatives have come under attack. Beyond the overt ways that DEI and "wokeism" have become political footballs, there are swelling critiques that suggest DEI efforts are irresponsibly superficial, devoid of measurable impact, and may in fact heighten workplace biases through compulsory, yet insufficient trainings.

Recent reporting also finds that DEI professionals have average tenures of less than two years, with 88% being a team of one, and 66% claiming they lack adequate resources. Organizations that rashly invested in DEI largely out of "fears of missing out" have predictably backtracked.

That has not been the case for CSU Extension, which has committed an unprecedented amount of resources over the past year to ensure that its programs and workplaces continue to grow in ways that can responsibly serve all Coloradoans. This session will share these efforts, highlighting its strategies, successes, and enduring challenges.

Conservation has an ongoing history of excluding marginalized perspectives, especially Indigenous voices. Too many times, those affected by environmental decisions don’t have access to the decision-making process, and the resulting decisions do not consider varied perspectives. We often miss the opportunity to combine rich knowledge sources to solve problems in new, innovative ways with important community buy-in.

We will present our recently developed Toolkit on Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous and Marginalized Communities in Conservation, developed by the Center for Collaborative Conservation with funding from the EIN. This Toolkit is designed to guide students, faculty, and practitioners on ways to better engage with, support, include, and amplify Indigenous and marginalized community efforts, priorities, and knowledges within conservation fields.

This interactive multi-format session will include a presentation, group discussions, and small group activities that will have participants wrestle with and apply the principles and strategies presented.

This presentation explores the importance of inclusive course design in higher education, focusing on supporting the diverse student population at Colorado State University (CSU) to enhance student success.

The session begins with a pre-reflection activity, "Do Think Feel," to gain insights into students' perspectives. Participants are then guided through collaborative discussions to challenge preconceived notions about students and address implicit biases.

The presentation emphasizes the significance of data collection and surveys to understand student experiences, showcasing examples of learner profiles created based on institutional data. It highlights the use of learner profiles in informing instructional design and fostering inclusivity.

Reflective exercises and concrete examples are provided to motivate participants to embrace inclusive design and create equitable learning. The presentation concludes by inviting participants to share their feedback and contact information for further discussions and resource sharing.

Through this presentation, educators are inspired to design differently and collectively contribute to a more inclusive educational experience for all students.

This workshop will guide teacher educators toward best practices to equip new and veteran teachers with trauma informed teaching practices, which will allow teachers to provide students with psychological, physical and identify safe learning spaces.

This interactive workshop will explore the School of Social Work’s multi-year planned change process as a model for disrupting oppression and bias within departmental spaces. The workshop will guide participants through three principal steps of this process:

1. Assessing needs
2. Inclusive, results-based planning
3. Implementing change

Throughout this workshop, we aim to build a self-reflexive space by facilitating an honest conversation about the types of harm our department has perpetuated and the steps we are taking. To build a foundation, we will provide an overview of the hallmarks of White Supremacy Culture, which helped us create a common language underlying this work.

We will also engage participants in a power mapping exercise designed to “make visible” departmental and organizational perpetuation of oppression and bias. As we move through the actual process, we will discuss strategies to assess needs and concerns through interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data, including the CSU Employee Climate Survey.

We will then share our year-long strategic planning initiative in which work groups used logic models to address school climate, school structure, student experience, and conflict resolution. Finally, we will explore unforeseen challenges of this work, focusing on strategies to overcome intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational barriers to implementation, as well as the steps in our process that did not work well and should be avoided.

Implications for cost, human resource needs, and participant safety will also be addressed.

CSU Pueblo’s Vision 2028 seeks to establish itself as the People’s University of the Southwest United States, and in order to achieve that vision, it is critical that it seeks unique collaborations that support inclusion, access, and affordability for students.

One collaboration that seeks to fulfill this vision is with the Truancy Court at the 10th Judicial District in Pueblo, CO. Many of the students who do not attend school and find themselves in Truancy Court can be a product of their parents not prioritizing school. In conjunction with Judges in the 10th Judicial District, CSU Pueblo has been attending Truancy Court to advertise Extended Studies programs that provide flexible course offerings, a robust scholarship opportunity, and all the resources needed for parents to re-engage with their own educational future, all with the hopes it then incentivizes their children and students to re-engage with their own schooling.

This presentation intends to showcase this partnership, the obstacles the Extended Studies team is seeking to overcome, the opportunities for expansion and replication, and the accomplishments and benchmarks witnessed thus far in the partnership.

Our presentation entitled, The Discussion Board Is The Heart & Soul Of Online Learning, provides recommendations for promoting learner success through a positive, proactive, and caring disposition continuously and consistently. In addition, the co-authors will demonstrate how diversity should be honored and celebrated on the discussion board. Participants will receive guidance in the effective use of Artificial Intelligence in supporting the heart and soul for discussion board sharing and caring. Emphasis will be given to the development of discussion boards as centers of encouragement where diversity, equity, and inclusion are demonstrated, developed, and ensured.