Resources

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Anti-Oppression

• Bringing Anti-Racism and Allyship into the Classroom and Bringing Anti-Racism and Allyship into Your Practice: Self-paced online courses
  Anti-racism is the “active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably” (from the National Action Committee on the Status of Women International Perspectives: Women and Global Solidarity). Building on the resources in a toolkit created at Wheaton College, these CIE self-paced courses guide faculty and staff through the steps necessary to build a more anti-racist institution. Note that Bringing Anti-Racism and Allyship into the Classroom focuses more specifically on instructional roles while Bringing Anti-Racism and Allyship into Your Practice is more general and applies to any role.
• What does it mean to be an anti-racist ally?
  Resources to provide a starting point for those who want to take action to be more effective allies.
• Anti-racism and Allyship in the Classroom: Discipline-specific resource list
  Suggestions and resources for instructors looking to advance racial and social justice across the curriculum, with a focus on discipline-specific applications and examples.
• Allyship for the African American Community (June 2020)
  There are many specific actions you can take as an individual to strengthen your allyship and demonstrate your commitment to support our Black students, colleagues and community.
• Teaching and Supporting Black Students: Advancing Student Needs in Times of Racial Crisis
  This online teach-in was held on Thursday, June 4, 2020.
• Antisemitism Crisis in our Community : What it is, What to do (recording)
  This online teach-in was held Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (PDF of slides)

Inclusive Communication

• Managing Challenging Conversations
  Suggestions and resources to help manage challenging moments and be a more effective upstander when microaggressions happen.
• When Tragedy Strikes
  Suggestions and resources for supporting our students, colleagues and classmates when there are incidents that target specific communities.
• Inclusive Language
  How we communicate can both reflect and perpetuate implicit biases so for many people, ensuring that we are using inclusive language can require a conscious effort to reflect on the implications of our word choice and to develop new habits. The resources on this page are intended to provide some guidance for that work.
• Facilitator Guide for Diversity Conversations
  As SDSU strives to truly embrace “equity and inclusion in everything we do”, many more faculty and staff are engaging in conversations around justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. While these conversations are important and necessary to ensure meaningful action, they also can be challenging and fraught with the potential for misunderstandings. This guide is intended to help those who may be leading these conversations to facilitate open and honest exchange while maintaining collegial and inclusive interactions.
• Filtering Email
  Faculty and staff often receive unwanted emails from colleagues. Although free speech protections limit San Diego State University’s ability to stop such messages, you are certainly not obligated to read or respond to them. We have collected several options if you would like to filter your unwanted, non-University-business email.

Student Support

• Supporting Student Whole Health
  This presentation reviews campus resources and how you can help students struggling with their mental and emotional health, well-being, basic needs insecurities and other crisis situations (title link goes to recording; the slides are also available)
• Inclusive Student Support in the Virtual Environment (video series)
  This series of virtual discussions was offered in Summer 2020 and focuses on key principles of inclusive online student services. 
• Teaching and Supporting the Whole Student (video series)
  An important aspect of equity-minded teaching and student support is understanding what is happening in students’ lives, as well as knowing about resources to which you may be able to refer students for help with a range of issues.
• Resources for Student Support - Personal and Academic (Canvas resource pages)
  These pages compile links with brief descriptions of campus resources.
  
  

Teaching

• Maintaining Equity and Inclusion in Virtual Learning Environments
  As SDSU strives to keep our students, faculty and staff safe in these unusual times, many faculty are wondering how they can ensure that they continue to serve ALL of their students. This guide provides suggestions and resources to help faculty continue teaching in ways that are equitable and inclusive as they move to teach face-to-face classes remotely.
• Inclusive Pedagogy
  An inclusive classroom is one where ALL students feel welcome, safe to participate, and supported in their learning. This resource page provides links to multiple sources for strategies to create such an environment.
• Diversity and Inclusion Syllabus Statements
  Your syllabus is often the first introduction students have to you and your course and is an opportunity to set a positive tone for everything that follows. Including a diversity and inclusion statement can be an important signal of your commitment to supporting ALL of your students.
• Foundations of Effective and Inclusive Course Design: Online course, 8-10 hours to complete
  In this self-paced course, participants will learn about evidence-based and inclusive teaching practices and will develop learner-centered course learning outcomes, assessments and activities for multiple modalities. This is a good option for those who need ultimate flexibility and/or do not feel able to commit to anything time-bound this summer.
• Closing Equity Gaps in Student Success
  This page provides a step-by-step process for individual faculty or department teams who are looking for evidence-based strategies.
• Inclusive Teaching in the Virtual Environment (video series)
  This series of virtual discussions was offered in Summer 2020 and focuses on key principles of inclusive online teaching.
• Identifying and Responding to Bias in Teaching Evaluations (recording), Fri March 26
  Students' evaluations of faculty teaching have long been used as a strategy to assess teaching effectiveness in college and university courses. However, recent calls for more equitable practices in retention, tenure, and promotion processes and studies concluding that women and faculty of color experience negative bias in student evaluations have led some to question their validity and utility. This workshop discusses how bias manifests in student evaluations and propose strategies for mitigating it.
• Resources for Student Support (Canvas resource page)
  One way that instructors can support students is by providing information on campus resources. The page linked here can be imported directly into any of your own Canvas courses.

Additional Topics

• Resources for colleagues experiencing emotional, relational, behavioral or mental health concerns
  The pandemic has highlighted the need for all of us to practice self-care and seek out help when we need it. 
• Working and Teaching Remotely
  Working and Teaching Remotely was an online program where members of the San Diego State Community could come together and get practical advice/suggestions on how to deal with the new environment we are all experiencing.
• Implementing the Plan: Strategy, Solidarity, Sustainability
  This is a recording from Dr. Sumun Pendakur's CIE community professional learning opportunity on March 16, 2021. Implementing a strategic plan brings opportunities and lessons to all involved. We’ll dive in to explore how students, staff, and faculty can be in coalition, while also moving the needle on their locus of control in meaningful ways.
• Getting to Know IV
  A college of SDSU, SDSU-IV has a rich history of serving southeastern California as a source of quality education and research. This is a recording of the Oct 27, 2021 webinar with Professors Elizabeth Cordero and David Kanaan that introduces the SDSU-IV community, the connections between SDSU-IV and the main campus of SDSU, areas for potential growth, and the important role that SDSU-IV plays in the mission of SDSU overall.