Workshop Highlights
🎓Earn Your Certificate in Inclusive Education and Professional Development
Participants who complete six workshops, including three required and three elective workshops; will earn a Certificate.
Required Workshops:
- Exploring Perspectives and Roles in Higher Education
- Addressing Subtle Behaviors That Impact Learning and Work
- Understanding Unconscious Influences on Decision-Making.
Elective Workshops:
Participants choose three from the following:
- Cognitive Empathy Training
- Safe On Campus
- How to Become a Trauma Informed Ally
- Humanizing Differences in an Anti-DEI Climate
- Developing Reflective and Responsive Teaching & Leadership Practices
📍Locations for workshops:
Adrian Trimpe Building at 2466 Ring Rd S, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
📅UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Exploring Perspectives and Roles in Higher Education
Examine how identity, power, and privilege shape experiences in classrooms and institutions. Participants will reflect on their own positionality and explore ways to foster equity and inclusion in higher education.
📅Date: September 8, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Addressing Subtle Behaviors that Impact Learning and Work
Learn how to recognize and respond effectively to microaggressions. This workshop provides practical strategies for addressing subtle behaviors that can undermine trust and belonging in educational and professional environments.
📅Date: September 15, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Understanding Unconscious Influences on Decision-Making
Explore how implicit biases affect advising, teaching, supervision, and leadership. Participants will reflect on their own assumptions and practice approaches to reduce bias in academic and professional contexts.
📅Date: September 22, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Cognitive Empathy Training
What is Cognitive Empathy and how can it make our campus better? To get a better understanding of another person’s experience, and how they think or feel. This workshop encourages participants to have honest and productive conversations blending demographic data, social-science research, and discussion. Participants will engage in exercises to develop skills to discuss complicated topics with others.
📅Date: November 5th, 2026, 2401 Sangren Hall, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Safe On Campus
Learn to be a better advocate and ally to lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people. Participants receive information on practical strategies for addressing homophobia, learn ways to support students who are “coming out,” and gain an understanding of respectful language use. Participants may choose to become members of the Safe On Campus program by signing a pledge of support for LBGT people.
Note: The Safe on Campus Training is a 3-hour training and is available each semester to all faculty, students and staff. Additional trainings may be requested for groups of 10 or more.
📅Date: October 9, 2026, 2401 Sangren Hall, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
How to Be a Trauma Informed Ally
In this workshop we will be focusing on how you can exercise being an ally to youth who have experienced trauma by practicing just a few concrete strategies. We are going to define and explore the trauma impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences, provide an overview of the brain’s response to trauma, and outline three simple practices that enhance resilience through trauma in youth.
📅Date: October 14, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. AND October 30, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Developing Reflective and Responsive Teaching & Leadership Practices
This session emphasizes cultural humility as an ongoing practice of reflection, openness, and growth. Participants will learn how to apply humility to teaching, advising, and leadership to build stronger, more equitable relationships.
📅Date: September 29, 2026, Multicultural Center, Trimpe Building, 10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Humanizing Differences in an Anti-DEI Climate
Discover ways to sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts even in climates that resist them. This workshop offers strategies for promoting respect, inclusion, and shared values during times of tension.
📅Date: TBD
Campus Dialogue Series
A recurring opportunity for open, respectful dialogue on key topics in higher education. This series creates opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to engage in meaningful conversation and learning together.
📅Date: TBD
🔗Helpful Resources:
Multicultural Affairs for Students