Welcome to Week 4 of the CEE Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge! This is the final week of materials for this quarter. This week’s topic is Allyship and Action Steps. As before, please engage with some or all of the materials below, and consider meeting up with friends to discuss!
Discussion/Thought Questions:
- How can you be a better champion for DEI efforts on your campus?
- Why is it important for you to be a better DEI champion?
- What are you doing with your team to foster learning about DEI issues?
- What can you specifically influence in your organization?
Read and Watch:
- How to Be a Better White Person in 2020
- By Michael Harriot, The Root (January 9, 2020)
- Guide to Allyship
- Created by Amélie Lamont, this site strives to be an ever-evolving, open-source guide to resources for becoming a more effective ally.
- Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias
- Janice Gassam, Forbes (Dec. 29, 2019)
- Teaching While White Podcast
- Hosted by longtime educators Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, TWW’s podcast focuses on how whiteness shows up in the education sector and what anti-racist educators are doing to challenge that. Episodes feature different nationally renowned anti-racist educator guests. (any episode – times vary)
- Become a Better Champion for DEI by Focusing on These Three Areas
- Higher Ed PerspectiveCUPA-HR