These resources are meant to help people explore diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging[DEIB] for themselves, in their communities, and in our institution. They may be resources that help you re-examine society and do some introspective reflection, explain core concepts like intersectionality or anti-racism, or practical guides for action, such as how to review a syllabus for equity-minded practice.
The resources are linked in the announcement and saved to a common google folder for all to reference, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a0DXWcmwl4a5zM5lMsBZR_7uk8_OZhIY?usp=sharing.
If you would like to share thoughts on resources, please contact Diversity@Clarkson.edu. We will also be using some of these resources as the basis for workshops and professional development throughout the year.
This week we offer resources on diversity syllabus statements and community rules. We also left the resources from last semester’s resources on talking about the election at the bottom of this week’s resources.
Course Inclusion Statements
Course Inclusion Statements let students know that you value diversity and inclusion and want to create a brave space that allows for intellectual exploration and dialog.
Community Rules
Community rules are a set of discussion and community standards you create with your students at the beginning of class to establish ways to have discussions about important, difficult topics. It indicates ways disruptive or disrespectful behaivors will be handled. And they set a positive set of expectations for the students and instructors in how to treat each other.
This link will give you examples from our colleagues at St. Lawrence. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gy22ABsmeJZ90m6baMrIpjm_-UdqaJYC/view?usp=sharing
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity offers an excellent resource for Empowered Teaching Toolkit for (Pandemic, Racial Reckoning, Election Turmoil, and “Normal”) Times
Created for NCFDD by Chavella Pittman, PhD, Founder, Effective & Efficient Faculty
You can access through the following Clarkson instituioonal link after sign up: https://www.facultydiversity.org/institutions/clarkson-university
Elections/Politics Resources
The Board of the Difficult Dialogs National Resource Center created this resource specifically for higher education institutions to think about how we frame our discussions as part of community support and building.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1izo0b1-5x6w3LDz_UOPVTKopo64rED1ZUcK9RE4_0bU/edit?usp=sharing
To think about Election Stress see this great resource from PLU, we will also be sending out more resources on self care next week.
Pacific Lutheran University offers the following page to its community members:
We at the PLU Counseling Center recognize that for members of our PLU community from all political parties and backgrounds, the 2020 election session has been stressful. We Lutes are not alone: A summer 2020 survey by the APA found that most adults from both parties say the current amount of uncertainty in our nation causes them stress (76% Democrats, 67% Republicans), and similar proportions cite the current political climate as a significant source of stress in their life (77% Democrats, 62% Republicans).
If election stress has you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, excited, powerless, down, fearful, depressed, powerful, wondering how to talk to people about what matters to you without losing your relationships, (or any and all of those) You Are Not Alone. There are things that you can do before, during, and after the election to care for your mental health and to reduce election stress.