Diversity & Inclusion Summary Report 2017 – 2018
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Title |
Audience |
Description |
Date |
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Emerging Adulthood Book Series |
Financial Aid Director & Deputies |
Read two books on emerging adulthood and discussed with one of the authors. Group focused on how to adjust our services to students as well as to our student employees and FTEs that also fall into this category |
August 2017 March 2018 |
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Certificate of Learning in Team & Organizational Development Trainings |
Financial Aid Staff (20 participants each month) |
Partnered with Division of Continuing Studies to offer seven workshops on topics chosen by the team Navigating Organizational Change, Resolving Team-Based Conflict, Managing from the Middle, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Giving & Receiving Peer-to-Peer Feedback, and Effective Time & Stress Management |
October 2017 April 2018 |
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Diversity & Inclusion Assessment |
Financial Aid Whole Team |
To assist in the creation of future workshops and staff development activities, the whole team participated in a Diversity & Inclusion Assessment. The assessment was incorporated into the department strategic planning efforts |
November 2017 |
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Gender 101 Training |
Financial Aid Whole Team |
Members of the LGBT Campus Center provided training and discussed best practices on using gender pronouns and practiced their usage |
November 13, 2017 |
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DiSC Profile Discussion |
Financial Aid and Office of the Vice Provost Whole Teams |
Worked with Russell Consulting to complete DiSC profiles and learned how to better communicate and interact with each other based on key personality traits |
Various dates in 2017 |
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Documentary 13th |
Financial Aid Interested Staff |
Group viewed the documentary 13th and were encouraged to discuss their thoughts and brainstorm how our services could be altered from what had been learned from the documentary |
March 28, 2018 |
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Trauma Informed Services Training |
Financial Aid Whole Team |
Department of Social Work gave trauma informed services training and discussed the manifestations of PTSD and trauma as well as how we can improve our services to students and each other by using a trauma informed lens |
May 8, 2018 |
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Sense of Belonging Book Series |
Financial Aid Director & Deputies |
Reading College Students Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students. The group will focus on how to adjust our services to students as well as to our student employees and FTEs to ensure that we are always considering others sense of belonging when we institute new policies and procedures |
May – July, 2018 |
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Team Building with Kathy Germann Consulting |
Financial Aid Advising and Outreach Unit |
Worked to identify and begin to understand inter-team relationships and the impact on the work we do with our customers. This initiative consisted of individual interviews with Kathy and three team building sessions to discuss, understand and provide strategies to more effectively work within the team dynamics |
May July 2018 |
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Bridging the Generational Divide Workshop |
Open to DEM Staff Attendance ~25 |
Workshop presented by Accent Learning and Consulting. Workshop discussed the generations characteristics; common generational pain points for teams; differences across generations in terms of change, feedback and work; as well as how to bridge the gap effectively. |
December 14, 2017 |
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Developed the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in the Office of Admissions and Recruitment (DIVE-IN) |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Developed to provide programming to all staff around diversity and inclusion. Sessions are intentional and include application to our work as we engage with prospective students, their families and each other. |
October, 2017 |
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Creating an Inclusive Workplace with Annette McDaniel from the School of Human Ecology |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Workshop on practicing workplace inclusivity skills. This workshop introduced socialization and common fears people may have around topics of diversity, racism, oppression, inclusion or social justice. Communication exercise with an emphasis on active listening to improve communication with each other and others to seek to understand and not to reply |
October 2, 2017 |
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Danger of a Single Story Introduction of Identify with Chimamanda Ngozi – Adichie at TEDGLOBAL 2009 Video Clip |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Presented for staff to consider how our perception of outward appearances may influence our communication or interactions. The goals was to raise awareness of the layers and depth of each of our identities and consider this when interacting with others |
January 8, 2018 |
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Identity Part 2 |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Staff developed their own identity wheel or identity bubbles to examine which of their identities are more/less prominent and which social group memberships are targeted or advantaged |
March 8, 2018 |
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Identity Part 3 Socialization: Crash Course and Cycle of Socialization Videos |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Discussion of socialization, or how we are taught values, rules, roles and norms which influence the way in which we engage with the world. |
May 3, 2018 |
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Intersectionality 101 and Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Vocab Videos |
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Staff |
Reviewed the topic of intersectionality, or the overlap of our multiple identities and how that overlap can reinforce oppression and privilege |
June 14, 2018 |
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Campus Diversity Forum |
Several DEM Staff |
Several staff members participated in the UW–Madison Campus Diversity Forum |
November 7, 2017 |
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Jeff Russell Consulting and Kathy German Consulting |
Office of the Registrar Whole Team |
Retreat to understand different learning styles, personality traits and how to build skills to improve our work |
July 27 & August 2, 2017 |
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Leadership Institute |
Office of Registrar Staff |
Nine-month long initiative where participants engage weekly in sustained dialogue within a learning community to hone leadership skills |
September 2017 – May 2018 |