NatSci Cultural Competency Workshop
Background
In fall 2020, the NatSci DEI Facilitation Team started offering Cultural competency for personal, organizational and community change, for NatSci faculty, staff, specialists, administrators, postdocs and graduate students.
The multiple session workshop, started in spring 2021, was adapted from the full-day workshop developed by Karen Pace, director of Pace 4 Change, and Dionardo Pizaña, diversity and personnel specialist, Michigan State University Extension.
Cultural Competency Workshops
We have begun registration for the Spring semester 2024 NatSci Cultural Competency Workshops.
April 30th-May 3rd, 9-11:30am, in-person, Erickson 228
- Facilitators: Jonglim Han, Kendra Pyle, and Claire Vieille
- Assistant facilitation: Becky La and Claudia Vergara
Participants are expected to attend all workshop sessions. Please do not sign up if you have work or other commitments that conflict with any of the sessions. If a workshop is full, you will be able to join a waiting list.
Workshops are open to MSU administrators, faculty, staff, specialists, postdocs and graduate students. If you have concerns about attending a workshop with someone else in your unit, such as a supervisor, please email Kendra Pyle, NatSci DEI Coordinator, at kpyle@msu.edu.
Register for the workshops directly.
Skills Development Workshops
Attendance at the Cultural Competency for Personal, Organization, and Community Change workshop is encouraged but not required. Building on this workshop, every session we will have new practice scenarios to help participants develop skills to handle bias incidents, microaggressions, and discrimination that occur in STEM classrooms and workspaces.
Monday, January 29th, 11:30am-1pm
Facilitators: Danielle Flores Lopez and Kendra Pyle
Friday, April 5th, 11:30am-1pm
Facilitators: Raychel Meyer-Payne and Kendra Pyle
Register for the workshops directly here.