Champions for Change is a student facilitator training programs that provides leaders the opportunity to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion across campus by becoming trained DEI facilitators. Students (or Champions) who are enrolled in the program will go through a series of preliminarily DEI trainings to equip them with the tools to educate and lead their peers in a variety of diversity sessions and workshops. Champions will co-facilitate presentations with MSA and will receive a certificate to demonstrate their certification of being able to facilitate in the program.
Date(s): Bi-Monthly Meetings (February - April 2022)
Topic
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Date
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Time
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Facilitator(s)
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Identity and Impact
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TBD
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6 p.m.
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Kennedy Robinson, Christopher Clarke
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Interrupting Bias
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TBD
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6 p.m. |
Kennedy Robinson, Christopher Clarke
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Allyship and Cultural Awareness
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TBD
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6 p.m. |
Kennedy Robinson, Christopher Clarke
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Social Injustice
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TBD
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6 p.m. |
Kennedy Robinson, Christopher Clarke
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Student Facilitation
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TBD
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6 p.m. |
TBD
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Each session will include a variety of interactive learning activities that emphasize diversity and inclusion awareness, knowledge, skills and practical experience. Sessions will include dialogues, presentations, collaborative group activities, and opportunities for the application of skills learned. Participants will be provided with a variety readings, guest presenters, and engaging individual/group exercises that promote overall skill building. In order to be an inducted Champion, after the completion of the mandatory sessions, participants must display their knowledge through facilitating a DEI presentation for their cohort and MSA Staff.
Identity and Impact
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Interrupting Bias
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Allyship and Awareness
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Social Injustice
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Social and Personal Identiteis
Intersectionality
Marginalization, Privilege, and Oppression
Power
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Types of Bias
Microaggresssions
History of Bias
Confronting and Responding
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Ally Types
Ally vs. Avodcate vs. Accomplice
Developing Cultural Awareness
Inclusive Language
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Structural Inequality
Racial Injustice
Impacts of Justice System
Empathy
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At the conclusion of this program students will be able to: