This training will be facilitated by Language & Culture Worldwide, LLC. (LCW) and is geared toward faculty hiring, although it is also applicable to staff hiring. ---------------------------------------------------LCW provides 3 core services designed to transform lives and organizations, and inspire professionals to connect across cultures.1) TRAINING & LEARNING - LCW helps organizations build intercultural competence, foster inclusion, … Continue reading "Minimizing Unconscious Bias in Hiring at Augsburg University"

This interactive workshop allows participants to explore the concept of ableism and other various models of disability. Additionally, participants will examine disability through the lens of diversity and identify underlying sources of prejudice and discrimination commonly experienced by people with disabilities. Finally, this workshop will share tips and resources for creating spaces at Augsburg and … Continue reading "Disability as Diversity: Building Bridges to Full Inclusion Workshop"

This workshop has a hybrid, e-learning group format that provides participants with an introduction to understanding and responding to unconscious bias during workplace interactions and in workplace settings. Relevant to faculty and staff of all levels, participation in this workshop can positively impact all aspects of Augsburg University. Additionally, this workshop explores the hidden and … Continue reading "All About Bias Workshop"

This workshop provides participants with the tools, skills, knowledge, and resources to be intentionally supportive to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) communities. Additionally, this workshop will cover definitions and terminology, tackle current issues and challenges facing LGBTQIA+ students, and practice skill-building scenarios. Finally, this workshop will help faculty and staff to … Continue reading "Brave Space Training – Formerly Ally I"

This workshop will highlight four common ideologies, misunderstandings, and behaviors that many well-meaning individuals frequently subscribe to that inadvertently sabotage their best attempts to create and maintain welcoming and inclusive spaces at Augsburg. Additionally, this workshop will provide participants with historical, current, and relevant examples connected to these ideologies, misunderstandings, and behaviors. Finally, this workshop … Continue reading "Working Towards Inclusive Spaces Workshop"

If you have received this email it means that your name was on a calendar invite to a Faculty and Staff of Color Lunch meeting invite last academic year, that you signed up to be added to this invite list at a new faculty or staff orientation, or that a colleague suggested to our department … Continue reading "Faculty and Staff of Color Lunch"

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to learn about a wide range of faiths and ethical traditions including Native Spirituality, Judaism, Islam, Hybrid, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Atheism. Participants will hear the stories of community members from a variety of traditions and have the opportunity to learn through case studies.For more information about this … Continue reading "Interfaith Ally Workshop"

Want to learn more about how to better support DACA/Immigrant/Undocumented - status students? Join us as we host a conversation facilitated by Navigate MN. NAVIGATE/ Unidos MN is a millennial driven Latinx based organization that builds power for gender, racial and economic justice. We are a woman led, intersectional and predominantly millennial organization. Vision of … Continue reading "Supporting Undocumented & DACA Status Students Workshop"

This workshop has a hybrid, e-learning group format that provides participants with an introduction to understanding and responding to microinequities during workplace interactions and in workplace settings. Relevant to faculty and staff of all levels, participation in this workshop can positively impact all interactions and spaces at Augsburg University. Additionally, this workshop allows participants to … Continue reading "From Microinequities to Inclusion Workshop"