Faculty & Staff Education and Development
The Office of Inclusive Excellence Education & Development supports faculty and staff through offering interactive workshops, training and resources to expand critical consciousness, foster individual and collective reflection on the complexities of identities, and anti-bias skill building to promote inclusion and belonging
- Inclusive Lens Workshops
- I-Excel Mini-Grant
- Inclusive Community Conversations
- Critical Conversation Series
- Summer Race, Reflection, and Discussion Series
- The Intercultural Development and Education to Action Institute (IDEA)
- Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB) Suite and Community of Practice sessions (CoP)
- Bias Education Workshops
Inclusive Lens Workshops
OIEED provides workshops that can be tailored specifically for the needs of departments and divisions to develop and integrate skills and practices related to equity and inclusive excellence.
To consult and request a workshop, complete the Request for Services Form
Inclusive Community Conversations
A monthly dialogue series about current events/issues related to identity, implicit bias, critical consciousness, equity, inclusion and more to generate personal and collective reflection and engagement. Participants are asked to engage with a short reading, video or other piece of content as a prompt to begin the dialogue. During the dialogue, participants will engage in a World Cafe-style dialogue about the topic. After the event, in collaboration with Belk Library, participants will be introduced to additional resources to further their reflection and understanding about the topic.
Critical Conversations Series
Facilitated dialogues are an effective approach for community building across difference and skill building to promote inclusion and belonging. Critical Conversation is a semester-long, cohort, dialogue-to-action experience focused to building relationships while addressing critical issues related to race and other intersecting identities. The process leads from building trust, increasing awareness, deepening understanding of others’ lived experiences to engage in collective action.
Summer Race, Reflections and Discussion Series
A collaboration between the Center for Race, Ethnicity, & Diversity Education (CREDE), Office of Inclusive Excellence Education and Development (OIEED), and the Office of Leadership and Professional Development (OLPD) providing faculty and staff a personal and professional development opportunity to discuss contemporary issues regarding race/racism through workshops and dialogue over the summer months.
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB) Suite and Community of Practice sessions (CoP)
Professional development modules for all Elon University faculty and staff to explore concepts and strategies that build the necessary skills to actively contribute to an Inclusive Excellence work and learning culture. This is offered in collaboration with the Office of Human Resources.
For descriptions and learning outcomes of each module, review the DIB Suite or DIB Suite for Leaders outlines. Faculty and staff can access the DIB Suite using Elon credentials.
DIB Debrief and Community of Practice sessions are facilitated conversations for deeper exploration of content and opportunity to create developmental action items based on the exposure and learning from these modules in the DIB Suite.
- Fall 2024 Debrief: Monday, October 21; 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Schar Building 212 (School Of Communication) Register here.
- Spring 2025 Community of Practice sessions (Date and time TDB)
Bias Education (BE) workshops
BE Aware, BE Accountable and BE Advocates: BE workshops aim to proactively reduce identity-based bias and bias-related incidents. Participants in these workshops learn to identify bias, how to utilize Elon’s bias response system and strategies to integrate anti-bias advocacy skills into thinking and practice. Fall 2023 sessions:
Understanding Bias Education and Response at Elon (BE Accountable)
Join us for an informative and interactive workshop to gain an understanding of the Bias Education and Response process and develop strategies to promote anti-bias and inclusion in your respective areas on campus.
Virtual: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 11:00 AM. Register here.
Learn more about Bias Education at Elon University.
The Intercultural Development and Education to Action (IDEA) Institute
A year-long program enabling faculty and staff to deepen intercultural learning and development to expand critical consciousness in their current work. Participants will complete the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI©), create a personalized development plan, and engage in development sessions and experiential learning activities to advance their intercultural learning, competencies and practices.
Participants will receive an IDEA Institute Completion Certificate upon completing all Institute requirements.