3 Things to Add to Your DEI New Year’s Resolution

Categorized: Diversity

It’s a new school year and many institutions have committed themselves to strengthening their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts…

Game Your Brain – Control Your Biases

Categorized: Diversity

I have implicit biases, lots of them, and so do you! The absolute first thing we should recognize about implicit…

Elephants & Onions: Peeling Back the Layers

Categorized: Diversity

For so many of us, diversity is often the Elephant in the room. We notice differences, we see differences, and…

Doing the Work of Nuance

Categorized: Diversity

Nuance is “a subtle distinction or variation.”  Effective communication between people that are joined by a mutual endeavor can ensure…

Are You an Intentional Ally?

Categorized: Diversity

We Absolutely Matter

Categorized: Diversity

Watch this important message from Sam Hyun about the AAPI Community and why the Absolutely Matter. 

Higher Education’s DEI Effort: Are colleges and universities performing structural changes or just being performative?

Categorized: Diversity

Recently, the country watched Nikole Hannah-Jones engage in a battle with UNC Chapel Hill’s board of trustees over approving tenure…

Voices of African Americans: The One Thing White People Can Do To Be More Inclusive

Categorized: Black History, Black Lives Matter, Diversity

In early June, I launched an ambitious podcast, Being the Dot. The goal of Being the Dot was to discuss…

Disrupting Complicity

Categorized: Diversity

By: Tara Fuller Complicity (noun): involvement with others in a crime or in another activity that is wrong.* I often…

I Am Authentic

Categorized: Authenticity, Diversity, LGBTQ+ Issues

By: Jared Sampson No one should ever be denied basic human rights because of the color of their skin, religion,…

Being black in white spaces

Categorized: Diversity, Social Justice

Being black in predominantly white spaces can be complicated for African Americans at different ages and stages in life. The…

Why our storied past matters: The View From The Mountaintop

Categorized: Black History, Diversity

Like many young students in America, I learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in grade school. Every January, teacher’s…

Hitting the core challenges of culturally-based greek organizations

Categorized: Diversity

I have been working with students for years and every semester there is something new they feel they need to…

Communicating diversity correctly

Categorized: Communication, Diversity, Leadership

by T. Leon Williams 1) Manage emotions and know your biases and misconceptions One of the first steps in dealing…

Elephants and Onions workshop

Categorized: Communication, Diversity, Social Justice

Motivating students to embrace diversity and peel back the layers of social justice. For many campus communities, diversity is the…

Diversity. Success. Health.

Categorized: Diversity, First Year Experience, Health & Wellness

The first year of college is huge. Students start their independent lives in a totally new environment, with new people…

Yeah… but

Categorized: Communication, Diversity, Social Justice

How often do you make excuses for your daily actions? Do you often look back on your actions or reactions…

Improve your intake process and continue to build your organization’s legacy

Categorized: Community Building, Diversity

You want to have the best organization on campus, but are you taking the right steps to make that happen?…