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Friday Forums on Racism in Higher Education

Embrace Discomfort to Lead Change

Campus leaders and administrators must become courageous in their willingness to face these tense moments, listen to their constituents and others close to them, and embrace their uneasiness to create a culture of resiliency and inclusion.

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Friday Forums on Racism in Higher Education

Friday Forums is a commitment to the state and region in elevating national conversations and showcasing models of disrupting complicit racism. Each session welcomes national thought leaders to lead discussions and provide opportunities for participants to share ideas on actionable items towards a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.

Upcoming Sessions

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25

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Past Sessions

Nov 19, 2021

Embrace Discomfort to Lead Change

Campus leaders and administrators must become courageous in their willingness to face these tense moments, listen to their constituents and others close to them, and embrace their uneasiness to create a culture of resiliency and inclusion.

Oct 22, 2021

Shared Equity Leadership

A more equitable future calls for new leadership; leadership that is inclusive and distributed among informal and formal roles, made up of leaders who share a vision and commitment to equity.

Sep 24, 2021

Leading with Equity

While we do not believe individuals set out to intentionally create inequity, we have each been socialized within a system that perpetuates inequities through its language, policies, and practices that result in our implicit and unconscious bias.

Mar 26, 2021

The Long Game: Deepening the Work

What must we do together to inspire and sustain the necessary and lasting changes in higher education?

Feb 26, 2021

Racial Equity & Philanthropy

What is philanthropy’s responsibility and role in anti-racism efforts?

Jan 29, 2021

A Call for Racial Healing

We will continue to uproot racism and plant seeds of anti-racism.

Nov 20, 2020

A Racially Just Workplace

How can we create a racially just workplace? What is needed, and how can we create a more equitable and inclusive campus?

Oct 23, 2020

Establishing Anti-Racist Policy

How do we ensure that anti-racist policies are also intersectional?

Sep 25, 2020

Confronting Our Racism

The legacies of racism that constrain us are deep and long, and we are not going to solve our discomfort with training.
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