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Unit Contributions to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion 6556

Mon, 10/16/2017 - 13:33 — ybraun
Academic Years: 
2017-2018
Department: 
Women's And Gender Studies
Division: 
Social Sciences
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Academics
1. Faculty: 

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies as a field, and we strive to thread these initiatives throughout everything we do as a faculty. Each of our faculty member’s research and teaching engage, at various levels, questions of inclusion, diversity and equity. Our faculty members engage in service to the institution, profession, and community that foster these larger goals, including work with African Studies, Native Studies, Disability Studies, and the LGBTQ+ ARC. All our faculty have taken or plan to take the Implicit Bias Training by the end of fall term 2017.

2. Staff: 

Staff are critical to every facet of the department’s work, and are particularly important in fostering a welcome and inclusive environment in the WGS office. Our business manager has participated in multiple trainings, including the Implicit Bias training as we conducted a search last year.

3. Graduate Programs: 

We have a very popular Graduate Certificate in WGS, enrolling graduate students from all over campus. We offer two scholarship awards for exceptional graduate student work in WGS, and one award is particularly for work in the field of LGBTQ+ Studies.

4. Undergraduate Programs: 

WGS has an undergraduate major and minor in WGS, and a Queer Studies minor. We Our students experience a curriculum that centers questions of equity, diversity and inclusion, and faculty work to engage research led content and inclusive pedagogical practices in their classrooms. We just revised our undergraduate curriculum for the major and minors, which in part included centering courses on Black Feminist Studies, and Indigenous, Transnational, and Decolonizing Feminisms. We offer two scholarship awards for exceptional undergraduate student work in WGS, and one award is particularly for work in the field of LGBTQ+ Studies.

5. Outreach and Partnerships: 

WGS recently completed a successful and exciting search with the hire of our newest faculty member, which was part of the CAS cluster hire in Black Studies. Our faculty members engage in service to the institution, profession, and community that foster these larger goals, including work with African Studies, Native Studies, Disability Studies, Black Studies, and the LGBTQ+ ARC.