Capacity Building for InclusiveVT
Creating an Inclusive Climate
This online, self-paced course is for anyone who wants to ensure that the places they live, work, study, and socialize are welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible to all. The course is a four-module pathway that addresses the topics: How can I be an ally? How do we practice active listening? How do we use language to create affirming spaces? How do we celebrate together? Participants earn the Inclusive Climate digital badge upon successful completion of all course components.
Creating an Inclusive Workplace
This online, self-paced course is for anyone who manages a program or facility with supervisory responsibilities and wants to implement strategies for welcoming, safe, affirming and accessible workplaces. The course is a four-module pathway that addresses the topics: How can supervisors foster an inclusive workplace? How do I have difficult conversations? How do I interrupt implicit bias in the workplace? How do I retain a talented and diverse workforce? Participants earn the Inclusive Workplace digital badge upon successful completion of all course components.
Culture and Context in the Arts
This course is for anyone who enjoys the arts a way to discover the experiences, identities, and cultural contexts of others. Participants attend a matinee of a selected performance at the Moss Arts Center and participate in a post-performance discussion. Pre-work on cultural intelligence and contextual materials are shared prior to the performance. This course is a collaboration with the Moss Arts Center.
Best Practices for Search Committees
This course is for anyone serving on a search committee. This toolkit is designed to help you practice being an effective advocate for fairness when serving on a search committee. We present the ways that implicit bias is coded in search deliberations and offer language for intervening and redirecting. We also provide scenarios for thinking through and responding to typical situations that arise in search committees.
The Principles of Community
The Virginia Tech Principles of Community is an aspirational statement that speaks to what we want to be as an institution. At its core are the beliefs that Virginia Tech is a community built on respect for all people and each of its members share in the responsibility for upholding its values. The purpose of this course is to explore the meaning of the Principles: how they came to be, how they connect to our history as an institution as well as to broader historical moments, and the policies and procedures in place across the university that enable us to reach for the aspirations reflected in the statement. The course also serves as an invitation to situate ourselves in the history and culture of Virginia Tech.
Enroll in courses at the Professional Development Network at https://profdev.tlos.vt.edu/