The Center for Inclusive Excellence serves as a campus hub for information and professional learning about justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), promoting and facilitating connections throughout the University community. We assist the community to:

Understand and reflect on identity, bias, privilege, institutional oppression and other JEDI concepts;
Learn about the lived experience of individuals from a range of diverse communities;
Develop and deepen cultural humility, applying an equity-minded, inclusive and anti-oppression approach to all aspects of personal and professional learning, work, interactions with others;
Acquire, practice and innovate strategies for inclusive communication, addressing microaggressions, equitable education and work practices, and dismantling systems of oppression and entitlement;
Integrate anti-oppression, allyship and social justice into teaching and learning, research, scholarship and service;
Support and elevate scholarly work that contributes to diversity and equity in higher education and promotes; understanding of underrepresented communities;
Support and elevate students, staff and faculty from underrepresented communities.

We strive toward these goals by offering a wide range of professional learning and development activities. This work is guided by a framework that recognizes that in order to become equitable and inclusive practitioners, individuals must not only develop JEDI knowledge and skills but must develop self-awareness, empathy and an authentic commitment to the institution’s JEDI values, and that this is a continuous, on-going journey. To that end, this toolkit provides guidance and links to resources to support your own learning and reflection, wherever you are along this journey. It is a companion to the Faculty and Staff Resource Guide, which provides information on the many campus offices, programs and departments that provide services to students, staff and faculty.

We encourage you to add this course to your Canvas dashboard for easy future access. It is also linked from the CIE's homepage.

Course Navigation

To continue, select "Next" at the bottom right of each page. Each page in the course provides the "Next" button to help you move forward through the modules; if you wish to jump to a different part of the site, it is easiest to select Modules on the left side navigation menu to view the full contents.

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