While it’s imperative that D&I efforts are supported by the CEO and actively engages leaders, one cannot discount the impact of employee involvement. Engaging employees at all levels is the most effective way to reach critical mass and communicate the import of diversity and inclusion. Often employees are eager to join in the process but lack the know-how and confidence to take action. It is important to let employees know that there are many ways to contribute and support D&I efforts and does not necessarily require expertise in the field. This article offers some concrete tips that are designed to engage employees at all levels within the organization.

This document provides guidance on how educators and school administrators can actively challenge bias, cultivate inclusivity and model how students can do the same.

In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light.

Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America.

This series of brochures provides practical information in a range of languages about getting a good night’s sleep, problem solving and setting goals, promoting wellbeing and stress and stress management.

This site at the National Park Service website contains a wealth of information about June 19, 1865, when enslaved people of African descent in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom and the holiday that has become Juneteenth.

Georgia State University faculty Dr. Curtis D. Byrd and Rihana S. Mason describe best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs.

This action plan is based on the dedicated work of the Task Force for Racial Equality, the Next Generation of Faculty Implementation Steering Committee and recommendations from faculty, staff and students. Provost Wendy Hensel announced the plan in September 2020 with next steps for the university to achieve a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive campus environment.

This report provides an update from the university administration on the progress of implementation of the Task Force for Racial Equality's recommendations, through the end of Calendar Year 2020 (Dec. 31, 2020).

This book explores how institutions are serving Latinx students, both through traditional and innovative approaches. Drawing on empirical data collected over two years at three HSIs, Garcia adopts a counternarrative approach to highlight the ways that HSIs are reframing what it means to serve Latinx college students.

How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time.

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here

This article from Oprah Magazine lists 125 independent Black-owned bookstores in the United States.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

America’s institutions of higher education—liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, research institutions, community colleges, and others—are not only centers of learning, but also key community resources. They create a halo effect along economic, cultural, and social dimensions that extends into the greater society. At a time when division, anger, and acrimony are acting like caustic solvents on the civic fabric of the United States, institutions can help the nation bridge those divides by creating opportunities for reasoned dialogue and understanding.

The challenge today is to learn from and leverage existing research, translating general findings to specific contexts and for different audiences. That effort can help ensure that an institution’s mission driven diversity and inclusion goals are clearly defined, effectively pursued, and legally permissible.

With a special (though not exclusive) focus on racial and ethnic diversity, this paper is intended to support those efforts by:

1. Surveying the current research landscape related to student diversity in higher education for areas of strength and areas in need of further exploration;
2. Suggesting prospective research directions that may inform action within individual institutions and in the broader higher education community; and
3. Identifying policy and practice implications for institutions in a shifting political and legal landscape.

This paper is focused on assisting individual colleges and universities as they work to enhance their own research efforts, informed by the broader landscape of common principles and interests at play in the broad higher education community.

Georgia State is using the results of the COACHE survey as part of a multi-year improvement process. A COACHE micro-website is available to read more about Georgia State and COACHE, the survey results, timeline, action plan, presentations, updates and a contact form.

(Research/Case Study) This article notes the experience of the Bryn Mawr College community in 2014 to address racism in the college community and beyond, after the college was rocked by several bias and racist incidents.

New examples show that community building can be a more powerful way to address social problems than more traditional policies and programs.

Dealing with prejudice — whether it’s microaggressions, bias, or discrimination — is physically and psychologically demanding. But avoiding it is not always an option. Here's how it can be confronted, and how allies and bystanders can challenge prejudice and discrimination.

This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives.

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education.

This Cultural Awareness Guide has been created to enhance awareness pertaining to diverse cultures and communities. The guide offers essential information about dates and practices that will be helpful to those planning activities, events, meetings, and co-curricular events that impact our campus community.

This article contains helpful breakdowns and searchable/filterable data visualizations to help understand diversity, equity and inclusion among large U.S. corporations.

Prospective college students should honestly evaluate all facets of their identity in the admissions process.

In order for colleges and universities to truly prepare students for the real world, these places of higher learning need to cultivate diverse populations.

This article from NPR interviews author Emily Ladau, a disability rights activist, on how to talk about disabilities, making the world more accessible, becoming more inclusive and allyship. The article discusses ableism, language/wording/terminology, and includes a helpful suggested reading list.

The article discusses the leadership role of faculty in developing inclusive classrooms and educational environments across higher education in the U.S. amid the increasing racial and ethnic diversity among college students. Topics include the expected increase in minority enrollment at postsecondary institutions in the U.S. between 2009 and 2020, the requirement for the universities' crucial role in addressing this diversity and an introduction to other related articles within the issue.

ScholarWorks is the searchable, open-access institutional repository administered by the University Library to collect, organize, disseminate and preserve the digital scholarly output of Georgia State University faculty, students and staff.

Approaching disability from the perspective of difference, the authors of this new volume offer guidance on creating more inclusive learning environments on campus so that all students--whether or not they have a recognized disability--have the opportunity to succeed.

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes.

This document serves as the final report for the initial action plan Georgia State implemented beginning in 2020, based on recommendations from the Task Force for Racial Equality. The original action plan issued through the Office of the Provost addresses the recommendations of the Task Force, charged in 2020 with identifying how Georgia State could address issues at the institution and how it could contribute to fostering conversations and identifying solutions for its students, faculty, staff and society. The university continues to take action and evaluates how it can further the goals and spirit of the plans set forth to increase equality, equity and justice at the institution.

This staff climate survey provides a range of benefits to the institution and its employees, including: Information about staff perceptions regarding the nature of their work; policies and practices and the general climate at Georgia State; identify areas where staff feel the operational effectiveness of the University could be enhanced; indicate attitudes toward existing programs for staff and to identify the need for new programs; guide the actions of the Staff Council, the Administrative Council, the University Senate and other representative bodies through the use of reliable data; survey perceptions of managerial effectiveness and of the quality of the supervisor/employee relationship; identify issues that may facilitate or inhibit staff retention; assess the effectiveness of internal communication efforts.

In 1956, Myra Payne Elliott, Barbara Pace Hunt, and Iris Mae Welch along with other Black applicants were denied entry into Georgia State’s predecessor institution, the Georgia State College of Business Administration.

These guides have been created to assist the Georgia State community, including faculty and supervisors, in understanding the work- and other activity-related restrictions involved in some religious holidays/observances.

If you’re seeking to become an ally to Black women in the workplace, Dr. Ella F. Washington has some practical, helpful advice on how to get started.

This article explains the importance of supporting Black-owned businesses, statistics about Black-owned businesses and economics, and how you can find and support Black-owned businesses.

IPORT is a web-based application that provides access to summarized and detail data that is stored in the university data warehouse, such as reports on enrollment, admissions, grades, graduation, retention, curriculum, faculty teaching duties and student housing. 

This informative article contains tips on how to educate children about Juneteenth, including links to informative videos aimed for kids through PBS Kids and other sources, and meaningful activities for children to add to the celebration.

This fact sheet from the Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan staff which helps to prepare background research for members of Congress as they craft legislation, includes a wealth of information about the legislative history of the holiday, and the modern-day history of the start of observances of Juneteenth among the states.

This chapter summarizes how diversity experiences influence college students' educational outcomes and offers recommendations for practice to maximize these benefits on all campuses.

Racial trauma can be defined as the cumulative traumatizing impact of racism on a racialized individual, which can include individual acts of racial discrimination combined with systemic racism, and typically includes historical, cultural, and community trauma as well.

As a professor, Moore explains how she effectively uses her classroom to engagement in challenging and conflicting conversations with her students, especially in times of heightened public crisis.

Aimed at public health professionals but also useful for everyone who writes across many fields, "Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication" from the CDC provides principles to help public health professionals and health communicators to ensure that their work and strategies are adapted to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.

In Pulse of the People, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey illustrates the ways rap music serves as a vehicle for the expression and advancement of the political thoughts of urban Blacks, a population frequently marginalized in American society and alienated from electoral politics.

Black and Latinx communities have been hit considerably harder by the COVID-19 pandemic. Both racial/ethnic groups have seen rates of infection well above their percentage in the general population and African Americans have seen rates of death from COVID–19 as high as twice their percentage in the general population.

This document includes a short selection of materials recommended to campus administrators to learn more about contemporary antisemitism, the diverse ways in which it manifests on campuses, and what can be done to address it and support students.

Georgia State must bring its institutional spirit of innovative programming to design, implement, and evaluate strategies that build diversity and inclusion, thereby further enriching the academic environment and inspiring even more members of our diverse student body. The Commission on the Next Generation of Faculty was tasked with proposing how the university might best approach this opportunity and offers five Transformative Recommendations, which are high priority actions that should lead to greater success at recruiting, engaging, and retaining a diverse faculty, as well as three Best Practice Initiatives, which are essential for Georgia State to become nationally recognized in diversity and inclusion. Each recommendation and initiative is intended to be implemented across all campuses.

Following the report of the Commission of the Next Generation of Faculty, Provost Wendy Hensel solicited nominations of faculty to serve on an implementation steering committee. The Commission recommended the steering committee to guide the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations and facilitate the university’s progress on diversity and inclusion.

The initial report of Georgia State University's Task Force for Racial Equality outlines recommendations to address racial equity, social injustice, and how the university can make progress to become a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive institution.

Jill Anderson, the University Library librarian for Africana Studies, provides an overview of national and local Black history archives accessible online and in person. This resource list includes listings of databases, database access, and reading listings from recent University Library book acquisitions.

This resource at the website of Stop AAPI Hate is in multiple languages and provides valuable information about what to consider and do if you experience hate - or if you are a witness to it. It helps to address anti-Asian American/Pacific Islander hate, and hate of other individuals because of who they are.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has further information about rights and obligations regarding accommodations for the Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Please note that this advice does not supersede university policy on religious accommodation, which is also linked at this resource listing.

Whether you’ve been subjected to discrimination or not, simply hearing about the widespread xenophobia can affect your mental health. Huffington Post's Brittany Wong asked therapists who work within Asian American communities to share their best self-care advice for these stressful times.

Show Up: Your Guide to Bystander Intervention is a brochure produced through the Center for Urban Pedagogy's Public Access Design and Hollaback!, a global, people-powered movement to end harassment. The PDF can provide key tips for bystanders on how they can support others when experiencing harassment. Download the brochure here.

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society.

While the recent legislation has focused on charges of illiberalism in higher education, the issues at the center of the bills often extend beyond the academy.

The Georgia State University (GSU) Staff Climate Survey was originally developed in 2013 by an ad hoc committee of GSU Staff Council members and university representatives. Since then, the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) has been using this instrument to survey GSU staff biannually to learn more about their opinions regarding GSU as a workplace.

The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity. The guide includes terms and phrases related to race/ethnicity; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity; age and generation; drugs and alcohol; and physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.

In The Empowered University, Hrabowski and coauthors Philip J. Rous and Peter H. Henderson probe the way senior leaders, administrators, staff, faculty, and students facilitate academic success by cultivating an empowering institutional culture and broad leadership for innovation. They examine how shared leadership enables an empowered campus to tackle tough issues by taking a hard look in the mirror, noting strengths and weaknesses while assessing opportunities and challenges.

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.

This essential, groundbreaking, research from Dr. Clance and Dr. Imes at Georgia State in 1978 brought a new term to the fore, describing experiences of high achieving women: the imposter (impostor) phenomenon, or sometimes as it has been described in the popular press, "impostor syndrome."

The Intercultural Communication Guidebook: Research-based Strategies for Successful Interactions is a guide to successfully interacting with people from different cultures and thus developing satisfying relationships. Conversational in tone, the book illustrates concepts with examples from the world of everyday experience. Students become familiar with relevant research, theories that explain and predict, strategies that work, and suggestions on how and when to use these strategies.

The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the “model minority” image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. The book locates the birth of the “model minority” myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation.

This book provides Latino/Latina/Latinx students with step-by-step instructions for navigating the college process, from overcoming cultural barriers to attending college, to selecting the right school, to considering advanced degrees.

This book is an essential resource that Latino/Latina/Latinx students and families need to make the best decisions about entering and succeeding in a STEM career. It can also serve to aid faculty, counselors, and advisors to assist students at every step of entering and completing a STEM career.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." 

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated xenophobia and bigotry toward Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Psychologists are identifying ways to address the distress caused by that hate.

Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness.

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes.

At many higher education institutions, recent academic years have been characterized by debate and conflict over what it means to be a diverse and inclusive campus, how to ensure free speech while safeguarding against uncivil acts, and whether there are limits to civil discourse.

Board members increasingly have a role in how a campus addresses conflicts over critical issues related to campus climate, free speech, diversity and inclusion. Governing boards bear the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that appropriate policies exist to support an institution’s educational mission and create a culture that supports student well-being and success. Increasingly, board members are also expected to be visible on campus, to demonstrate understanding and concern, and to ensure that current policies are implemented to manage tensions over two types of inclusion: meaningful inclusion of all people in the campus community, and inclusion of a range of ideas and perspectives that enable colleges and universities to remain places of robust dialogue and debate.

In this bestselling, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

Since retiring two years ago after sixteen years as president of Drake University, I have had many conversations with college and university presidents regarding the vast array of challenges that they and their institutions are facing.

These documents from the LGBTQIA Resource Center at Georgia Tech provide helpful information and how-to's, along with a checklist for inclusion and recommended reading.

This entry includes shortcuts references, tipsheets and guidance on how to type non-English letters/characters that have accents (diacritical marks) using Roman/Latin letters, and links to how to change keyboards for all languages (including languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, etc.) on Macs and in Windows. (Additional keywords: computers, information technology, foreign languages, international languages, teaching resources)

The Research and Policy Analysis Division of the University System of Georgia provides information about faculty demographics (as well as other information) by fiscal year, including faculty demographics by race and gender across the system's 26 colleges and universities.

On June 17, 2020, University System of Georgia Board of Regents Chairman Sachin Shailendra and Chancellor Steve Wrigley asked an advisory group to review and study the names of buildings and colleges on system campuses and report to the Board on any recommended changes. This report was completed in 2021.

The University System of Georgia's USG by the Numbers provides information about academic programs and data on student enrollment, retention, graduation, and degrees conferred across the system's 26 colleges and universities.

Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan.

A three-dimensional tour through Greenwood in Tulsa, Okla., combined with the stories of real people who lived in what was called the "Black Wall Street" of its era, this article demonstrates the breadth and vastness of what was lost due to the white mobs in the 1921 massacre.

This new edited collection presents findings from the second wave of research about student veterans, with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college.

In this powerful 2016 essay, Dr. Volney Gay, a professor of religious studies, psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University, writes about how all Americans - not just Black Americans - should honor and celebrate Juneteenth and what it represents.

Even though the U.S. economy is projected to regain its pre-pandemic strength as early as 2024, the negative impact to Black workers' previous labor market gains could linger after the country recovers from the pandemic-related recession, according to new policy research from a Georgia State University faculty member.  Julie L. Hotchkiss, a research economist and senior policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who is also an adjunct professor at Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy studies, explained the issue in this policy paper from the FRB of Atlanta's Policy Hub.

(Research/Briefing) Undergraduate campuses remain spaces where students are challenged to engage with worldviews and commitments different from their own—and the implementation of programs that facilitate such engagement is not without its trials. Communicating across divides is an important skill for active citizenship in the United States, especially as the country is experiencing both rapid diversification and rabid polarization.