Diversity and Inclusion Resources

Leading during traumatic and triggering events

Leading during traumatic and triggering events requires adjustment of leadership approaches to help foster a sense of psychological safety, recognize individual needs for coping and healing, and empower individuals to process and heal from the event. Leading during traumatic and triggering events by Clayton Robbins, Diversity Equity Inclusiveness Consulting, provides some recommended tips. 

Guide to Inclusive Language: DEI Glossary

The DEI Glossary is primarily meant as a guide to the use of inclusive language, noting some of the nuances and current trends in preferred terms. The list isn’t exhaustive, nor is it the final word. Many of the terms evolve with preferences, perspectives, situations and time. The best determination of how to refer to an individual or a group is to ask their preference. You are also encouraged to consult the many resources and guides on the web, some of which are listed on the glossary site.

Anti-Discrimination Resources:

Cornell Programs

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, in collaboration with the Department of Organizational Development and Effectiveness and Professor Joseph Margulies, Professor of Law and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted programs on anti-racism. Course content can be downloaded through CULearn.


Why Are People Protesting?

Hosted by Jennifer Fonseca, Sr. Management Consultant, Organizational Development and Effectiveness; and Reginald White, HR Director for the Research Division

This program provides a historical context for the current reaction to recent killings of black people in America. We will look at what institutional racism is, how it manifests and what the impact is on the greater community.


Allyship: How Can I Support My Black Colleagues Right Now?

Hosted by Anthony Sis, Diversity and Inclusion Training Specialist, Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity

This program delves into allyship and what it means to be an ally. We will look at what anti-racism means and how to engage meaningfully in advancing equity in our work and daily lives.


Urban Policing: What's underlying the tension between black communities and police departments?

Hosted by Professor Joseph Margulies, Professor of Law and Government, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences

The relationship between police and urban communities has a long history fraught with hostility and resentment that periodically explodes into episodes of anger and rage. But the best police leaders recognize the impact policing has had on communities of color and are trying to transform that relationship. In this talk, we will try to explain the root of anger and discuss the prospect of change.


Webinars and Lectures

Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.

What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.

Cornell Community Conversation on Race and Labor in America - Discussion of "13th", the documentary. The film is still available for free streaming on Netflix and Youtube 

Video recording of Webinar: Video Recording of Webinar here

The conversation discussed the film along with the following articles:


Readings

Books for further Reading:

  • Race, Labor, and the Future of Work, Ifeoma Ajunwa, (Oxford Handbook for Race and Law)
  • Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. - Danielle S. Allen 
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs

Additional Resources mentioned:


Additional Resources

Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

Global Cornell

Religious Based Discrimination

Pew Research Center What do Americans Know About Religion

Cornell Resources

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Various definitions of antisemitism that can contribute to constructive dialogue aimed at recognizing, preventing and combatting antisemitism are listed at the links below:

Online Resources

Webinars and Lectures

Readings

Religious Based Discrimination

Pew Research Center What do Americans Know About Religion

Cornell Resources

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Various definitions of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism that can contribute to constructive dialogue aimed at recognizing, preventing and combatting Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are listed at the links below:

Online Resources

Webinar and Lectures

On Campus Programs

Readings