Inclusion and Belonging Program Track

Last Updated: March 22, 2023 4:08:23 PM PDT

Discover professional development opportunities for inclusion and belonging.

Inclusion and Belonging at UC San Diego

Inclusion and Belonging includes concepts of equity, diversity, and inclusion as it applies to the professional sphere at UC San Diego. This program track is open to all employees and emphasizes the value of ongoing reflection, accountability, and education to sustain a culture of inclusion that is critical to the culture of professionalism at UC San Diego.

The Inclusion and Belonging Program Track offers a structure to learn about the historical context of systems of oppression affecting equity, diversity, and inclusion. You can engage in learning to further understand your role and responsibility to become an agent of change as a member of the UC San Diego community. Inclusion and Belonging is critical to UC San Diego’s values through the Principles of Community and the Strategic Plan for Inclusive Excellence.

Staff Learning and Development acknowledges the vast range of resources available to the UC San Diego community. This program track serves as an introduction to the topic and is not intended to be a comprehensive set of resources. If you would like to connect regarding content, please email stafflearning@ucsd.edu.

Develop and strengthen your understanding of UC San Diego, local, and national history for the purpose of providing some foundational context.

Engage in opportunities to examine your relationship to mechanisms of oppression such as implicit bias, privilege, power, intersectionality and more.

Develop competency for community interactions. Engage in content related to upstander/bystander intervention, responding to microaggressions, allyship and more.

Explore tools for identifying and disrupting bias in processes and structures; creating opportunities and agency for institutional shifts towards inclusion and belonging.

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Foundations and History

Name	Description	Modality
The Chancellor's 21 Day Anti-Racism Challenge	Through the Chancellor's 21-Day Anti-Racism Challenge we explore anti-racism as a means to help one another begin to identify and confront the structural and behavioral norms that perpetuate civil injustice and systemic racial inequality.	Digital Library
Title: Candis Watts Smith: 3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress	In this actionable talk, political scientist Candis Watts Smith debunks three widely accepted myths about racism in the US and calls for a nuanced, more expansive definition to support this new era of anti-racist action.	TED Talk
Campus Timeline	This timeline chronicles the development of UC San Diego from the site of a military training ground and a marine research station to the innovative institution that it is today.	Web Page
Tell Us How UC It	The UC San Diego Library created a physical exhibit and digital library to foster and contextualize conversations regarding incidents targeting specific underrepresented groups on our campus.	Digital Library and Exhibit
Historical Foundations of Race	Article from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To more accurately understand how race and its counterpart, racism, are woven into the very fabric of American society, we must explore the history of how race, white privilege, and anti-blackness came to be.	Article and Videos
Capitalism: A Brief History of Racism, Sexism and Exploitation	Article from Medium showing connections between capitalism, racism and exploitation throughout the history of the United States.	Article
San Diego History Center	The History Center presents engaging, family-friendly exhibitions with participatory activities that tell the remarkable stories of our region – past, present, and future. We also offer popular public programs and special events. Admission is donation based.	Museum

Name	Description	Modality
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together	McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Mississippi to California to Maine, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.	Book and Podcast
An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States: Revisioning American History	Audio book that details the history of the United States from the perspective of Indigenous nations. Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land.	Audio Book
Institute of Arts and Humanities	The Institute of Arts and Humanities emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary thinking in addressing the needs of a complex world. They house 16 academic programs in regional, ethnic, and thematic studies.	Campus Program

Name	Description	Modality	Icons
Diversity and Inclusion Certification by HR University	The online certification program is designed for HR professionals and business leaders that are interested in strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workspace environments. For more leading equity, diversity, and inclusion certifications review The Product Company recommendations Fee Required	Certification
UC San Diego Extension Studies Certificates & Programs	UC San Diego Extension Studies offers a variety of courses, certificates, and programs connected to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Review their website to explore the diverse range of offerings and fees.	Certificates and Programs

Reflection and Accountability

Name	Description	Modality
UC Managing Implicit Bias Series: Common Forms of Bias	This is a six-course online training series that helps learners be aware of implicit bias and how it impacts the way we work, interact with others, and make hiring decisions.	eCourse Series
White Allyship, Action & Accountability Initiative	Use the self-guided learning plan intended to comprehensively promote anti-racism by strengthening white ally engagement in efforts to mitigate bias and to deepen white ally involvement in educating on anti-racism and driving racial equity at UC San Diego.	Self-Guided Program
The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist	TED presents author and historian Ibram X. Kendi, who addresses the concept of anti-racism to identify and reject oppressive systems.	TED Talk
How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias	TED presents author, speaker and CEO, Valerie Alexander, who explains how the human brain functions and experiences unconscious bias.	TED Talk

Name	Description	Modality
Harvard Implicit Bias Test	This online assessment allows participants to discover hidden cognitive biases.	Assessment
UC San Diego Extension, Humanities Courses	Explore Extension’s courses and programs such as Black Voices Matter, Recognizing and Managing Unconscious Bias, Equitable and Inclusive Learning Environments. Fee Required	Program
50 Ways to Fight Bias Digital Program	Use this free digital program to access resources that will prepare you to facilitate a workshop around identifying and addressing bias.	Digital Program

Name	Description	Modality	Icons
Diversity and Inclusion Certification by HR University	The online certification program is designed for HR professionals and business leaders that are interested in strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workspace environments. For more leading equity, diversity, and inclusion certifications review The Product Company recommendations Fee Required	Certification
UC San Diego Extension Studies Certificates & Programs	UC San Diego Extension Studies offers a variety of courses, certificates, and programs connected to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Review their website to explore the diverse range of offerings and fees.	Certificates and Programs

Interpersonal Interactions

Name	Description	Modality
Gender Recognition: A Focus on Transgender, Nonbinary and Intersex Awareness	UC San Diego is making strategic and systemic changes to ensure inclusion of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. These changes include our data systems, policies, and creating greater awareness within our community. To help build that awareness, this course will introduce you to terms and concepts related to gender and nonbinary identities, as well as best practices for name, pronoun, and title usage.	eCourse
Workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion In Action	This course is your guide to defining diversity, equity, and inclusion and advancing meaningful and impactful diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in your workplace. In this course, you'll learn to recognize key characteristics of DEI and practices for building and sustaining a healthy EDI culture.	eCourse
Practical Diversity; Taking Inclusion from Theory to Practice	We strive to embrace diversity and inclusion in our schools and workplaces, but we often fail to understand what this looks like practically. Dr. Dawn Bennett-Alexander believes that with a little effort, we can move diversity and inclusion from theory to practice.	TED Talk

Name	Description	Modality
National Conflict Resolution Center Workshops for Professionals	Each of our ‘Workshops for Professionals’ has been adapted to take a closer look at communicating effectively and resolving conflict peacefully during this difficult time. Fee Required	Virtual and In Person Workshops
UC Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Name	This course will introduce you to the concept of lived name, and provide an overview of the policy, implementing procedures, use, disclosure, confidentiality, access, and local procedures regarding legal name.	eCourse
Bridging Differences In Cross-Cultural Communication	In this course, you will learn about two principal dimensions of culture that underlie culturally different ways of communicating and learn vocabulary that will allow you to explain differences in communication styles. You will also explore barriers to communicating effectively across cultures and identify ways to overcome them.	eCourse

Name	Description	Modality	Icons
Diversity and Inclusion Certification by HR University	The online certification program is designed for HR professionals and business leaders that are interested in strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workspace environments. For more leading equity, diversity, and inclusion certifications review The Product Company recommendations Fee Required	Certification
UC San Diego Extension Studies Certificates & Programs	UC San Diego Extension Studies offers a variety of courses, certificates, and programs connected to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Review their website to explore the diverse range of offerings and fees.	Certificates and Programs

Institutional Change

Name	Description	Modality	Icons
Toolkit for Team Building	The Toolkit for Team Building lives on Google Drive and this Blink page will help you understand how the toolkit is organized. The toolkit provides a framework for team leaders to guide your team in engaging in the important work of building structures rooted in empathy, ideation and iteration. In using this toolkit you will create a tailored plan using an intentional and strategic approach.	Digital Toolkit
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge For Racial Justice In Higher Education	The authors offer advice on how to build an equity-minded campus culture, align strategic priorities and institutional missions to advance equity, understand equity-minded data analysis, develop campus strategies for making excellence inclusive, and move from a first-generation equity educator to an equity-minded practitioner. Central concepts and key points are illustrated through campus examples.	Book

Name	Description	Modality
Strategic Diversity Leadership	This book presents one of the most complete discussions of the theory, research, and practice of leading diversity themed change. Strategic Diversity Leadership was written for presidents, provosts, chief diversity officers, deans, researchers, committee chairs, policy makers, and diversity champions everywhere.	Book
UC San Diego LEAD Fellows Program	LEAD Fellows are campus champions who engage and lead crucial conversations around improving organizational learning and campus climate.	In-Person and Virtual Training Series
Faculty Leadership Mentor Program	The purpose of the new Faculty Leadership Mentor Program is to cultivate faculty leadership development at UC San Diego and increase mentorship opportunities for underrepresented faculty, including faculty of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community.	In-Person and Virtual Training Series

Name	Description	Modality	Icons
Diversity and Inclusion Certification by HR University	The online certification program is designed for HR professionals and business leaders that are interested in strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workspace environments. For more leading equity, diversity, and inclusion certifications review The Product Company recommendations Fee Required	Certification
UC San Diego Extension Studies Certificates & Programs	UC San Diego Extension Studies offers a variety of courses, certificates, and programs connected to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Review their website to explore the diverse range of offerings and fees.	Certificates and Programs

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	Calendar - this resource requires a time commitment of two days or more
	In-person - this resource requires face-to-face interaction in an in-person setting
	Beginner - this resource works well for new learners
	Intermediate - this resource is most helpful for learners with a brief understanding of the topic
	Advanced - this resource is helpful for learners with a thorough understanding of the topic
	Online - this resource is offered in a virtual setting