Extension Cultural Competency
Training on cultural competency, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) helps our staff advance a diverse, equitable and inclusive community and workplace. This training helps staff understand the roles of power, privilege, oppression, and social identities within our communities and organizations, and broadens understanding of historical and current barriers that impact the lives of constituents and colleagues at personal, interpersonal, institutional and culture levels. Training in DEI and cultural competency helps staff to understand their own culture, socialization and social identities and to recognize and appropriately respond and adapt to cultural similarities and differences.
ADVANCE is a National Science Foundation program designed to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE-Purdue is an institutional transformation project that targets recruitment, retention, and advancement of women STEM faculty at Purdue University.
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With the support of CILMAR, we developed a Hub for promoting intercultural learning, as well as providing opportunities and resources for engaging with, adapting to, and bridging across cultural difference. We mentor intercultural leaders, support innovative scholarship, and encourage best practices in teaching and learning.
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The Green Zone workshop empowers participants to support military-connected students, staff and faculty and create change on campus. Over 1,000students, staff, faculty and community members have participated in Green Zone workshop since 2013 to provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of the veteran and military experience as well as develop tools to better serve these students. There is no cost associated with attending Green Zone. Also offered in the Fall and Spring is a Green Zone Student Panel. The panel is made up of students from a variety of backgrounds; veteran, active duty, reserve or National Guard, ROTC, and family member. The panel is moderated with an opportunity for Q&A.
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This training is designed to provide information about trans identities and help attendees develop skills to create inclusive and compliant spaces to support trans students, staff and faculty.
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Safe Zone is a training and support program that empowers participants to support LGBTQIA students, staff, and faculty and to create transformative change on campus.
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Website with a list of additional resources related to DEI available at Purdue University
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Navigating Difference© is a professional development opportunity that was developed by Washington State University Extension. It enables participants to create a safe and welcoming environment for all learners with activities that respect and support individual learning styles. What is cultural competence? Cultural competence is the ability to interact and communicate effectively with people from diverse cultures, including those of a different age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, race, and more. Navigating Difference© is not about specific cultural groups, trying to change your values, blaming or fault finding, or creating guilt or angry situations. Navigating Difference© covers five cultural competencies: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Understanding
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Navigating Difference aims to help participants become more aware of their own personal and organizational cultures, examine how personal and organizational cultures affect our ability to work with others who are different, and builds skills to increase competencies to work with others who are different.
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Teaching Across Culture. Culture influences everything in our lives, including how we teach, what we teach, and what behaviors we view as appropriate from learners, teachers, and facilitators. This is a 2-hour workshop on the intersection of culture and teaching; can be delivered via Zoom or live. Shortened asynchronous version of it also available in D2L.
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Inclusive teaching: Feeling safe psychologically and physically, respected, and included are prerequisite for learning. This module explores what you can do as an instructor/teacher/facilitator to create an inclusive environment that supports learning.
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Civil Rights Overview: Introduction to key concepts in Civil Rights for Extension staff
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Two Day Multicultural Self-Awareness Workshops: All MSU Extension employees regardless of funding source or appointment are expected to attend this “cornerstone” multicultural workshop which sets an organizational framework for recognizing, understanding and appreciating differences.
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Extension’s Learning Community for Inclusive Organizational Citizenship (Learning Community) is a cohort-based professional learning and development opportunity open to all Extension staff. It is a sustained community in which participants commit to weekly engagement over critical equity topics including race and racism, power and privilege, disability and ableism, gender justice, and more. Participants meet virtually and in-person and learning is facilitated with the support of self-directed readings, dialogue, reflection, and other pedagogical approaches. During the course of the Learning Community, participants will closely examine how current and historical issues shape their personal and professional lives, and how they influence the context of Extension work across the state. Parti
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