Learning and Development
Academic Impressions
The links below will take you to the Academic Impressions website to access the listed training. The trainings are free to access for all Academic Impressions members. All CCRI employees are Academic Impressions members. When on the Academic Impressions webpage, click "Login" and input your CCRI single sign on (SSO) to access the course material for free.
Visit the Academic Impressions website to learn how CCRI employees can access their virtual training sessions.
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Faculty and Staff Managers and Leaders New Hires Inclusive Excellence Tools and Resources
Faculty and Staff
- Develop an understanding of the historical context and definition of intersectionality.
- Identify and explore how your own intersecting identities shape your professional practice.
- Be able to implement strategies to build more inclusive learning environments that help your students and colleagues thrive.
- Crafting your talk: a roadmap for your audience
- Designing your delivery: voice, body language, and artifacts
- Considering your setting: in-person and virtual environments
- Introduction: Purpose, Concepts, and Terms
- Preparing for Difficult Conversations
- Having the Conversation
- Post-Conflict Strategies and Other Considerations
- How to know when to say no, and how navigate those conversations
- How to manage extra service work and work with students
- How to set boundaries within your career path
- How to feel more fulfilled while doing less work
- Identify and focus on your purpose and top priorities in order to move towards greater effectiveness
- Define goals that drive you toward achieving your purpose without overwhelming you
- Create and manage a schedule that allows you to accomplish your most important work first
- Protect your schedule and stay accountable to your top priorities when distractions and derailments inevitably arise
Through Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence, you will get ideas for how to:
- Manage graduate students, research teams, or labs more effectively
- Handle conflict and difficult personalities with more ease
- Mentor and manage graduate students
- Identify the different types of feedback needed in the workplace
- Explain a simple process for giving and receiving feedback in the moment
- Help you connect feedback back to performance expectations
- Model how to use effective communication steps and techniques
Managers and Leaders
- Know how culture shows up in your workplace and day-to-day interactions
- Learn why it’s so important to pay attention to and continue to learn about culture
- Understand how to incorporate forward-thinking actions into your leadership practice
- Recognizing how psychological safety impacts team performance, learning, satisfaction, and engagement.
- Establishing shared expectations and meaning
- Creating participation that welcomes all voices
- Responding productively to foster learning
- Improve and sustain a healthy working environment
- Build rapport among colleagues
- Increase faculty and staff morale
- Identify the different types of feedback needed in the workplace
- Explain a simple process for giving and receiving feedback in the moment
- Help you connect feedback back to performance expectations
- Model how to use effective communication steps and techniques
- Section 1: Assess Your Productivity
- Section 2: Build a Purposeful Schedule
- Creating a vision framework for your team
- Performance management strategies
- How to navigate conflict in a productive way
- Effective coaching techniques to help you develop your direct reports
A Guide to Inclusive Leadership
Inclusive Excellence
- Suspend judgement and be curious about other people’s perspectives and backgrounds
- Ask questions to aid you in reflection about your own beliefs and behaviors
- Interpret your interactions with others
- Explore barriers that might perpetuate your assumptions about others and prevent you from developing this practice
- Define implicit bias and understand the research behind implicit bias
- Understand how implicit bias shows up in the context of higher education
- Hear examples of implicit bias
- Learn how to respond to someone’s implicit bias
- Identify multiple techniques to increase awareness and interpret your own implicit biases
- Define race and white privilege
- Reflect upon your own identities as they relate to race and white privilege
- Identify strategies to recognize and confront white privilege in yourself, others, and systems and structures within higher education
- Define SES/Class and intersectionality
- Understand SES/Class in the context of higher education
- Understand implications for not considering SES/Class in your work
- Debunk myths about SES/Class
- Shift your thinking about SES/Class
- Reflect on your own SES/Class identities
- Understand where your social and political position of power comes from and how it can influence your leadership in productive and counterproductive ways
- Align the values of different groups across the organization and operate as a truly inclusive leader
- Explore how your social identities–including age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and others–shape your position of power or privilege as an inclusive leader
- Define key concepts related to LGBTQ+ communities like sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression
- Identify common barriers in higher education for LGBTQ+ students
- Implement recommended practices to foster an intentionally LGBTQ+ inclusive environment
- Reflect upon your own identities as they relate to gender and sexuality
- Define ableism and learn specific ways to interrupt your own assumptions, biases, and beliefs about persons with disabilities
- Become more aware of your language that can be hurtful or insensitive and exclude or target students with disabilities
- Understand and name the disparities often faced by persons with disabilities
- Identify and learn specific ways to be an effective advocate/ally for persons with disabilities.
- Define allyship and understand what it is and what it is not
- Reflect on considerations for becoming an ally
- Understand common mistakes made by allies
- Reflect on your own social identities to become an ally for others
- Develop an understanding of the historical context and definition of intersectionality
- Identify and explore how your own intersecting identities shape your professional practice
- Be able to implement strategies to build more inclusive learning environments that help your students and colleagues thrive
DEI Links
Contact Information
Leadership
- Raekwon Grace
- Manager, Organizational Development
- & DEI
- [email protected]