Anti-Racism Education, Programs, and Resources

Facilitating Anti-Racist and Other Difficult Dialogues (Faculty and Staff)

This training session provides an opportunity to learn best practices in facilitating difficult conversations around racism, xenophobia, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and values. Participants will receive strategies and resources for guiding effective conversations, drawing on dialogue-based research and literature. This training is intended only for faculty and staff who are planning to facilitate community dialogues within the near future. Ongoing opportunities are shared through NYU’s faculty leadership listservs.

This event was recorded on July 23, 2020 and posted on our YouTube page.

Responsive Dialogue Consultation and Co-facilitation Requests (Student Leaders, Faculty, and Staff)

We know there is a large demand for facilitation support and guidance. Faculty and staff leadership groups received a link to a request facilitation and consultation support from OGI to support people in facilitating conversations for students, staff, and faculty peers around high-stakes issues. Those receiving consultation and/or facilitation support will also receive an additional overview of the Responsive Dialogues Guiding Principles resource to best support its use (review PDF resource below).

Responsive Dialogues Guiding Principles (PDF: 102 kB)

We have developed this resource guide to provide guidelines, considerations, and selected resources to support people in facilitating conversations for students, staff, and faculty around high-stakes issues. We will also provide access to those staff attending different Responsive Dialogues sessions, including the recent “Facilitating Anti-Racist and Other Difficult Dialogues” session held in June. This document is not a substitute for intentional and robust facilitation training. 

There are many approaches and methods that could and should be explored ahead of convening a group. This is a guide that outlines some foundational practices and is by no means exhaustive. Hopefully, the questions presented and resources offered will provide a baseline for planning for difficult conversations in a thoughtful manner.

In this session for NYU faculty and staff, participants learn about anti-racism and strategies for addressing microaggressions: “What are microaggressions? How do microaggressions shape how we perceive race, class, sexual orientation, gender, and other social identities?” This session is interactive and includes collaborative dialogue around anti-racism work and understanding, preventing, and addressing microaggressions. Strategies for creating inclusive learning and work environments will also be shared. Faculty and Staff can register via iLearn. This session is offered quarterly.

Next availability:

TBD
Enroll through NYU iLearn here.

NYU’s Global Inclusive Leadership and Management Institute (GILMI) is a three-part course that examines the role of inclusive leadership in achieving inclusion, diversity, belonging, and equity within the work environment through an intersectional, anti-racism lens. GILMI is intended for NYU staff currently in leadership roles, including mid-management and above, who are responsible for leading or managing other employees. Applications for the Fall 2020 Cohort are now close.  

The Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation (OGI) in partnership with NYU Reads, the Office of the Provost, NYU Libraries, NYU Press along with School-based partners, and other offices across NYU, is pleased to announce NYU BeTogether’s new Global Scholars & Innovators Series (GSI). The GSI Series will spotlight artists, writers, leaders, innovators, legal scholars, scientists, and others whose work has often been path-breaking and foundational within their own disciplines and fields. To learm more about the GSI series please visit our NYU BeTogether page.

The NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation (OGI) hosted a dialogue among NYU students, faculty, staff, and alumni on July 30 to discuss the intersectional experiences at NYU. Our panelists critically examined the ways in which academic research can be codified and drawn upon to mobilize and to legitimize racist, classist, and xenophobic discourses. Recognizing the high-stakes relationship between academic knowledge production, public discourse, and policy-making in maintaining or transforming the status quo of disparity and inequity remain a top institutional priority.

Panelists included: Ikaika Ramones - PhD Student in Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts & Science, Joan Mukogosi (Liberal Studies '20) Research Assistant at AI for the People and Program Intern at COVID Black, Krystal McLeod (CAS ‘16) Law Student at the University of Notre Dame, Patrick J. Egan, PhD - Associated Associate Professor of Public Service, Wagner, Robert L. Hawkins, PhD - McSilver Associate Professor in Poverty Studies; Assistant Dean and Director, Undergraduate Program; Silver, and Sonia N. Das, PhD - Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Science.

Moderated by: Lisa M. Coleman, PhD–Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation, Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation

The panel was recorded and posted on our YouTube page.

NYU Summer Reads offered a selection of three shared readings for reflection, discourse, and engagement toward advancing equity and social justice at NYU, as part of the action initiatives announced by President Hamilton and the NYU Board of Trustees. The 2020 summer selections provided historical and social contexts while also highlighting the realities of systemic and institutional racism. For each reading, OGI hosted a conversation with the author and provide Reading Group Guides to support continued dialogue and discourse across NYU’s global community.

The selected Summer Reads books, corresponding conversations with the authors, and Reading Group Guides are:

• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
  • Recording of the July 8th conversation
    
  • Reading Group Guide (PDF: 3.5 MB)
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
  • Recording of the July 23rd conversation
    
  • Reading Group Guide (PDF: 3 MB)
    
• Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
  • Recording of the August 6th conversation
  • Reading Group Guide (PDF: 4 MB)
    

Access Instructions for Summer Reads Texts

NYU Libraries has partnered with OGI to secure digital access to a number of the Summer Reads selections. In addition, OGI and NYU Libraries have worked with authors’ presses to make the books available to the larger NYU community.

Summer Reads Selections

• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
  • Print only for NYU lending
  • E-books are readily available for purchase through online vendors via a quick internet search. You can purchase paperback copies directly from The Strand for Norton Press.
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
  • E-copy available for NYU lending
  • Print and electronic versions are available for purchase through online vendors via a quick internet search.
• Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
  • E-copy available for NYU lending
  • Print and electronic versions are available for purchase through online vendors via a quick internet search.

Additional Books by Summer Reads Authors:

• Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
  • E-copy available for NYU lending
  • Print copies can be purchased from Oxford University Press at a 20% discount using this code: OXFORD2020.
• Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1897–1917 by Matthew Frye Jacobson
  • Print only for NYU lending
  • Print and electronic versions are also available for purchase through online vendors via a quick internet search.

Hosted by the Center for Student Life and the LGBTQ+ Center. Panel discussion about the current moment we are living in as LGBTQ+ people. With a focus on COVID-19 and global protests against anti-Black violence, panelists will be representing the areas of mental health and wellness, social and community engagement, frontline health work, and NYU resources.

This event was recorded and was posted on our YouTube page.

This NYU-wide program was held on Thursday, June 18, 2020 to commemorate Juneteenth and to highlight its historical significance in American society, which is often unobserved nationally. In doing so, this discussion provided a context for how we reckon with our histories in our present to re-imagine our future together— NYU BeTogether.

Panelists included Dr. Lisa M. Coleman, Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation, and Dr. Karen Jackson-Weaver, Associate Vice President for Global Inclusive Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement, in conversation with Rachel Swarns, NYU Associate Professor of Journalism.

This event was recorded and posted on our YouTube page.

This panel, held on June 11, 2020, addressed anti-Black racism in the US, and globally, and the racism, xenophobia, biased actions, and violence that continue to be directed against people based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, SES, nationality, ability, and/or citizenship status across the world. This is not new, but rather part of the fabric of everyday lives for many.

This event was recorded and posted on our Youtube page.   

This was a panel conversation around the anti-Asian racism that has resurged during COVID-19 held on May 4, 2020. Panelists included faculty and staff from NYU Steinhardt and NYU Shanghai who historicized, contextualized, and provided coping strategies for the intensifying anti-Asian racism that Asian-identified individuals may be facing during the current global pandemic.

This event was recorded and posted on our Youtube page.

This webinar was co-sponsored by NADOHE and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and features Dr. Lisa Coleman, Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation at NYU.

Higher education institutions are microcosms of the larger systemic racism reflected in U.S. society and commonly reproduce social inequalities. Diversity and inclusion efforts in institutions of higher education, in the absence of systematic antiracism efforts, sometimes operate to marginalize people of color and those from other oppressed groups, perpetuating longstanding practices that arise from and reproduce a modern form of racial and cultural colonization. Thus, it is essential that colleges and universities become aware of how they reify and reflect racism in the broader context (George Mwangi, Thelamour, Ezeofor, and Carpenter, 2018). Higher education institutions should act to eradicate racism embedded in institutional policies, procedures, practices, and everyday operations.

This panel of nationally acclaimed experts will explore the crisis of racial violence in the United States, with emphasis on how higher education institutions and leaders must shift from a performative stance focused on diversity and inclusion to an intentional, active stance toward antiracism.

The event was recorded and can be viewed on the NADOHE's website.

This panel was organized by the United Nations Remember Slavery Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – in the context of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) – the webinar focused on how COVID-19 has exacerbated health conditions linked to structural racism and caused people of African descent to suffer disproportionately.

This event was recorded and can be viewed on the UNESCO's website.

Throughout the fall, we will host a virtual faculty seminar on Race and Critical Pedagogy. The main goal of our gatherings will be to highlight ways to respond skillfully and sensitively to issues of race, power, privilege, and oppression and the emotional responses they provoke in the classroom. We will also underscore the need for critical pedagogy in order to reimagine classrooms and create mutually supportive learning environments. Faculty will be notified via invitation using our Global Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement listserv. To join the listserv, please email globalinclusion@nyu.edu with the subject line: [Global Faculty Engagement listserv].

The Faculty Toolkit on Digital Inclusion synthesizes key research in the fields of inclusive teaching, online teaching, and teaching and learning in order to provide faculty with concrete strategies they can incorporate into their teaching practice. Each section provides an overview, strategies, and further resources for each topic area. This initial version will be updated Fall 2020.

The Inclusive Teaching Seminar introduces faculty to key ideas in the field of inclusive teaching, such as creating an inclusive classroom climate, empowering students to learn collaboratively and across difference, as well as connecting concepts to students’ lived experiences. Faculty who attend all four sessions will receive a certificate of completion. The Fall 2020 Seminar will meet from 11:00am - 1:00pm over Zoom on the following dates: September 18th, September 25th, October 2nd, and October 9th. The application is now closed.

The Environmental Justice Incubator brings together faculty from schools across NYU to discuss the intersection of social, environmental, and racial justice. Learn more about how to get involved and participate in future conversations through the NYU Environmental Justice Google group.

Due to the success of our academic year programming, we will be hosting OGI’s Summer of Writing. Our weekly gatherings will be virtual, but we will meet regularly to maintain our momentum. The plan is to spend time working on your book, journal article, grant application, or any other writing project you may be developing. The main goal is to support faculty in engaging in writing with a community of fellow peers committed to helping advance each other’s work. Faculty will be notified via invitation using our Global Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement listserv. If you are NYU faculty, to join the listserv, please email globalinclusion@nyu.edu with the subject line: [Global Faculty Engagement listserv].

These meetings will serve as an opportunity for faculty to learn and share about existing and upcoming resources, programs, and opportunities across NYU. In addition, we are in the process of developing additional responsive programs for students, faculty, and staff and supporting information sharing across schools and units.

We also want to offer a space for NYU faculty to meet with Dr. Karen Jackson-Weaver during virtual office hours. Dr. Weaver will host office hours regularly throughout the summer and notify faculty via invitation using our Global Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement listserv. To join the listserv, please email globalinclusion@nyu.edu with the subject line: [Global Faculty Engagement listserv].