The CBE EDI Initiative has included a variety of workshops to provide tools and build skills tailored specifically to the needs of faculty and staff, resources below.
Resources for Faculty & Staff
CBE Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Training Videos
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.
Special Topic Videos for Faculty & Staff
Resources for Students
The first resource for students can be found at the department level. Advisers are well versed in a number of resources available to students. Students with specific concerns or ideas to share are also welcome to schedule time with the Dean during Office hours. You can contact Brittany Faulkner at bfaulk@uw.edu for more information.
University of Washington Resources
Several centers and organizations promote support networks that allow students to experience personal growth, meet new friends, share common interests with other students, faculty, and staff.
We encourage all members of the College to use these resources as a springboard for further learning about anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practices and to foster greater diversity and inclusion in your work.
- 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
- 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
- UW Library Racial Justice Guides
- podcast – “Seeing white”
- Showing up for Racial Justice – understanding white supremacist culture
- White Culture Worksheet
- Racial Equity Tools
- 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
Other Resources & Readings
- UW Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EOAA)
- Affirmative Action in Washington
- Ten Myths about Affirmative Action, Understanding Prejudice
- How to support Asian American colleagues amid the recent wave of anti-Asian violence, CNBC
- Sinophobia: How a Virus Reveals the Many Ways China is Feared
- The Hidden History of Anti-Chinese Violence in Seattle
- Asian American Experiences of Racism during COVID-19
- Leaking Talent: How People of Color Are Pushed Out of Environmental Organizations (2019), Green 2.0
- The Importance of Diversification in the Environmental Movement, Mobilize Green
- The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations (2014), Green 2.0
- Environmental Justice Task Force. Recommendations for Prioritizing EJ in Washington State Government
- Alliance for Jobs & Clean Energy
- Got Green Seattle
- Duwamish Alive Coalition
- Duwamish River Clean-up Coalition
- Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS)
- Forterra
- Front & Centered
- King County Exec. Priorities (Equity & Social Justice | Climate Change)
- Northwest Toxic Community Coalition
- Puget Sound SAGE
- Puget Soundkeepers
- Seattle Foundation
- Social Justice Fund NW
- Stand Up to Oil: Community Fueling Change
- United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
- A Guidebook for a Campus Self-Assessment of Successes and Challenges in STEM Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, NSF INCLUDES-APLU
- AGU Ethics and Equity Center, AGU
- Best Practices for American Indian and Alaska Native Data Collection, Urban Indian Health Institute
- Creating-Sustaining-a-Culture-of-Excellence-Quick-Tips, National Center for Professional and Research Ethics
- Data Sovereignty Principles, University of Arizona, Native Nations Institute
- Diversity Programs in Science
- Growing the Diversity Awareness & Cultural Competency of Faculty and Partners, Pathways to Science
- National Science Foundation Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- Preventing Harassment in Fieldwork Situations, University of Washington (2017)
- Strengthening the Pathways to Faculty Careers in STEM Recommendations for Systemic Change to Support Underrepresented Groups, ASPIRE-NSF
- Take Steps to Prevent Harassment, National Science Foundation
- 350 Seattle
- All Home
- American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State
- Amnesty International USA Group 4 of Seattle
- Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest Office
- API Chaya
- CAIR Washington
- Campus For Peace
- Casa Latina
- Colectiva Legal del Pueblo
- El Centro de la Raza
- Equal Rights Washington
- Ingersoll Gender Center
- International Rescue Committee – Seattle
- Legal Voice
- Muslim Association of Puget Sound
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
- OneAmerica
- Seattle Chapter, National Organization for Women
- Solid Ground
- Somali Community Services of Seattle
- Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
- Youth Undoing Institutional Racism