Intermediate Trainings

Learning Outcomes

Personal and Social Reflection

(1) Deploy strategies for personal empowerment and transformation

(2) Participate in skills building activities for improved confidence, self-efficacy, and leadership, through the lens of diverse lived experiences

Knowledge Building

(3) Define and identify allyship, empathy, equity, implicit bias, microaggressions, power, privilege, and/or oppression

(4) Define intersectionality, with a particular emphasis on one’s personal identities

(5) Examine the ways in which cultural expectations for communication and social interaction may privilege particular identities and devalue others

(6) Improve one’s understanding of diverse experiences within marginalized populations

(7) Understand the ways in which systems of oppression inform institutional policies and practices (through educational settings, government, human resources, etc.) and/or identification of policy and regulations that hinder academic achievement of marginalized/subpopulations

Skills Building

(8) Build capacity for appropriate responses when someone discloses aspects of their identity and/or bias that they have experienced

(9) Practice specific skills that one can use for effective bystander intervention (4 Ds: direct, delegate, distract, and delay AND/OR identify additional bystander intervention techniques, including: I statements, silent stare, humor, group intervention, distraction, “bring it home,” “we’re friends, right?” and information seeking.)

(10) Commit to steps that an individual can take to support a campus culture that works to prevent and address bias

(11) Improve awareness of how to continue allyship when potentially stigmatized for speaking out against oppression

(12) Develop strategies for constructive conversation across diverse viewpoints

Trainings

Division of Diversity and Inclusion Trainings

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• Allyship (Provided in-person by our trainers, or through a pre-recorded webinar)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Duration: 1 hour
  Anchored in proactive participation in Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name, this allyship workshop focuses on actionable steps one can take to be an ally. We highly recommend attending an implicit bias workshop prior to attending the allyship workshop. It is recommended to participate in this workshop after one has completed the Implicit Bias and Privilege workshop (below); however, it is possible to complete this without the Implicit Bias workshop.
• Implicit Bias and Privilege (Provided in person by our trainers, or through a pre-recorded webinar)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  Duration: 1 hour
  This workshop encourages participants to consider their own identity, privilege, and implicit bias. Examples of implicit bias are drawn from the Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name movement, as well as from a critical analysis of the weaponization of white femininity. Participants will build skills that can be applied by analyzing the ways in which bias is displayed in individual actions, media, and through institutionalization in policy. Participants will be asked to commit to action steps to both further recognize their bias and minimize their acting on bias.
• Microaggressions (Provided through a pre-recorded webinar with expert Dr. Derald Wing Sue).
• Intercultural Competence (Offered regularly as part of the Professional Development Platform in Human Resources; faculty and staff may register online.)
  Learning Outcomes: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  Duration: 90 minutes

LGBT Center Trainings

To request a training, email lgbt@ohio.edu.

• SafeZone: LGBTQ+ Identities and Experiences (Offered by request at lgbt@ohio.edu or through the UHR Professional Development Pathways)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 2,4,6,7,8,12
  Duration: 1 hour–90 minutes
  Participants will learn about the dynamics of gender and sexual diversities while also exploring different ways to embody inclusive allyship for people of all orientations, genders, sexualities, identities, and levels of being out.
• Fostering an LGBTQ+ Inclusive Health Care Setting
  Audience: health care professionals and/or local health systems
  Outcomes: 3,4,5,7,12
  Duration: 1 hour–90 minutes

Multicultural Center Trainings

To request a training, email multiculturalcenter@ohio.edu.

• Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development: A Theoretical Primer
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
  In this training, an overview of select racial and ethnic identity development theories will be presented and implications these theories have on teaching and professional practice in higher education will be explored.
• Implicit Bias (Intermediate training specifically related to race/ethnicity)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes; 1, 2,3,6,7,8,9,10,11
  Duration: 1.5 hours

Women’s Center Trainings

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• American Association of University Women Start Smart Salary Negotiation (At least ten participants are required for this workshop to be offered by request.)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, but geared towards those negotiating a new position and not a promotion
  Outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 5
  Duration: 2 hours
  This salary negotiation workshop presents the wage gap, with a particular discussion of the gender wage gap and how to combat it by improving one's salary negotiation skills. Salary negotiation is analyzed through budgeting, salary benchmarking, and negotiation tips and tactics.
• Identifying Rape Culture and How to Respond
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Duration: 1.5 hours
  This workshop will provide participants with the tools needed to identify comments, actions, and myths that uphold rape culture. Participants will leave having role played bystander intervention strategies to disrupt rape culture.
• Crushing Imposter Syndrome: Facing Your Failure (Offered regularly as part of the Professional Development Platform in Human Resources; faculty and staff may register online.)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10
  Duration: 1.5 hours
  While imposter syndrome impacts all genders within higher education (apparently most of us feel like imposters!), this workshop will evaluate the syndrome from a gendered lens, highlighting the ways in which girls are socialized to perfection and providing tangible tools to remind us of our value and worth.
• Stay Out of Your Own Way (Offered regularly as part of the Professional Development Platform in Human Resources; faculty and staff may register online.)
  Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community Members
  Outcomes: 1, 2, 10, 11
  Duration: 1.5 hours
  This workshop will help participants examine the language they use to communicate their confidence level. We will highlight the ways in which women have traditionally undersold their skills, and develop new ways of speaking about ourselves.

Counseling and Psychological Services Trainings

• Bobcats Who Care: Suicide Gate Keeper Program (Provided in-person by a group of core trainers, currently offered through a combination of Blackboard and Microsoft Teams.)
  Audience: Faculty, Staff, Resident Assistants, Student Leaders
  Outcomes: 2, 8, 9, 10, 11
  Duration: 3 hours
  To request, and gain more information, visit the Bobcats Who Care web page.

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Trainings

• Interrupting the ‘isms: Intervention in Health Care and Educational Settings (Offered annually through HCOM, Department of Theater, and Office of Rural and Underserved Programs; please visit the HCOM website for updated offerings.)
  Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
  Learning Outcomes: 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Human Resources Trainings

To register for any of these trainings, please visit the HR website.

• Search Committee Training: Preparing for the Search
  While introductory awareness of some of the topics covered in this session is helpful, there is absolutely no requirement that attendees will have attended any prior sessions.
  Audience: Geared towards faculty and staff, but all serving on search committees are welcome to attend
  Learning Outcomes: 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
  Self-Paced E-learn
  The training focuses on establishing inclusive search committees, writing inclusive job descriptions, and creating inclusive recruitment plans as well understanding the impact of bias in these early stages of the search process.
• Search Committee Training: Candidate Evaluation and Selection
  While introductory awareness of topics covered in this session is helpful, there is absolutely no requirement that attendees will have attended any prior sessions.
  Audience: Geared towards faculty and staff, but all serving on search committees are welcome to attend
  Learning Outcomes: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Duration: 2 hours
  The course focuses on creating inclusive, consistent, and compliant candidate evaluation and selection processes and discusses the impact of bias during the later stages of the search process.

Inclusive Pedagogy Academy Trainings

To request a training, email inclusive.pedagogy@ohio.edu.

• Designing Your Syllabi: Laying an Inclusive Foundation
  Audience: Faculty
  Learning Outcomes: 5, 6, 7, 10
  Duration: 1 hour
  This session focuses on creating an inclusive classroom environment and addresses syllabi language, classroom policies, building rapport with students, and questions to consider as you frame your course content.
• Identifying and Responding to Microaggressions in the Classroom (Provided in-person by our trainers, or through a pre-recorded webinar.)
  Audience: Faculty
  Outcomes: 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Duration: 1.5 hours
  Within this workshop, we will define microaggressions and implicit bias, as well as discuss the importance of interrupting microaggressions, why we may be hesitant to respond in the moment, and how to respond.

Veterans and Military Student Services Center

These sessions are offered regularly throughout the year, as well as through Professional Development Platform in Human Resources, but may be requested for groups of eight or more by contacting Terry St. Peter at stpete@ohio.edu.

• Landing Zone 2: OUr Veterans in Transition
  Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community Members
  Outcomes: 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12
  Duration: 1 hour
  This session breaks out national veteran student characteristics, Ohio University veteran characteristics, Ohio University student veteran transition experiences, and highlights a veteran student panel questions and answers session.

• Landing Zone 3: The GI Bill
  Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community Members
  Outcome: 7
  Duration: 1 hour
  This session details the Department of Veterans Affairs' organizational structure, student veteran success programs, differentiating types of VA educational benefits, and VA regulation implications/challenges for students.

• Landing Zone 4: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), & Resources
  Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community Members
  Outcomes: 2, 8, 9, 12
  Duration: 1 hour
  This session provides an understanding of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury effects on student veterans, discussion of potential signs, and how to assist student veterans with each.