Our EDI Resources for Faculty, Staff, and Students

The College of Built Environments launched a college-wide initiative on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). EDI has been identified as one of the key priorities for the college, the University and professional communities. The EDI initiative is a partnership with the University’s Office of Minority and Diversity and Undergraduate Academic Affairs. The University hopes to learn from the CBE approach and create a model for achieving University-wide goals on equity and diversity.

The initiative is focused on measuring and building intercultural competency across the College. Intercultural competence is the ability to accurately understand and effectively adapt to differences. It reflects the degree to which differences in values, expectations, beliefs, and behaviors are effectively bridged in order to achieve learning, research, and workplace objectives. This approach to EDI has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to achieve EDI goals and has been adopted globally across sectors and higher education institutions.

A summary of the initiative and its components are summarized in the appendix to this report. This report provides an interim summary and key points from the focus groups.

•  Board of Regents Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Committee,  2018 Diversity   Metrics Data Book
  
• Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity 2019-2020 Fact Sheet
• Office of Academic Personnel 2019 Fact Sheet

• The Bias of “Professionalism” Standards
• University of Washington Human Resources’ Inclusive Hiring Resources
• The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
• About Bias Reporting at the UW
  • Report a Bias Incident
• Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: Evidence and Opportunities, Google
• Understanding Bias: A Resource Guide, U.S. Department of Justice

• podcast series “Teaching While White”
• Integrating Racial Equity into Guided Pathways, UW Community College Research Initiatives
• Countering Coronavirus Stigma and Racism: Tips for Teachers and Other Educators

• How to go beyond diversity and inclusion to community & belonging video
• Code-Switching, Passing, Covering – Kenji Yoshino: Diversity Does Note Mean Having to Choose Between Identity and Inclusion
• Identity, Privilege, & Marginalization: Understanding Ourselves & Others

• The Urgency of Intersectionality

• UW Library Racial Justice Guides
• podcast – “Seeing white”
• Showing up for Racial Justice – understanding white supremacist culture
• White Culture Worksheet
• Racial Equity Tools

• Trauma is ‘Written Into Our Bodies’—but Educators Can Help

• Hollaback bystander interventions
• Eliminating microaggressions video
• Just belonging: finding the courage to interrupt bias
• Eliminating microaggressions TEDx Talk by Tiffany Alvoid,  
•  Why microaggressions aren’t so micro TED talk by Whitney Cassidy

• What is disability justice? – Disability and Philanthropy Forum
• Project Let’s
• Sins Invalid  3-part podcast series ” An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of  Invisibility” that addresses the intersection of disability justice, and climate + environmental justice.
• You Tube Video:  Aimi Hamraie on “Making Access Critical: Disability, Race, and Gender in Environmental Design”
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Association on Higher Education And Disability
• Disability:INclusive Workplaces. Accessible Technology Procurement Toolkit, Disability:IN
• Mental Health in the workplace, Disability:IN
• National Organization on Disability

• American Psychological Association: Fifty Shades of Gay
• Transgender College Student Resource Guide, EduBirdie
• Using Gender Pronouns, Washington University
• Diverse Conversations Supporting LGBT College Students, Higher Education
  

• UndocuAlly Training
• An Ally’s Guide to Issues Facing LGBT Americans, Movement Advancement Project