Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This is an information session for a teaching opportunity during winter term January 2020. Teach English in Nosara, Costa Rica. We send 4 students to teach English to children and adults at The Biblioteca David Kitson in Costa Rica. Come find out more information about each program from interns from previous years and information on how to apply.

This 90-minute workshop will explore the ways power and privilege can manifest in interpersonal dynamics and how to increase students’ self-awareness of the way their behavior impacts others in order to promote greater equity, inclusion, access and full participation.

This 75-minute workshop will explore the dynamics of call-out (or cancel) culture, how to help students critically reflect on those dynamics and their impact, and how to help students reframe their engagement with others in ways that promote learning and growth while centering social justice.

This 75-minute workshop will explore common barriers faced by first-generation students and strategies that faculty and staff can use to reduce those barriers and their impact.

This 90-minute workshop will explore strategies for engaging effectively when students make comments that are perceived as offensive with a focus on helping students develop the capacity for critical self-reflection and perspective taking.

This 60-minute workshop will explore ways to frame and implement group work in order to promote inclusive and collaborative dynamics.

please note: there is another meeting that begins at 6, they have a pre-event start time of 5:45.

This 60-minute workshop will explore major religious holidays, how they are observed, and what faculty, staff, and supervisors should be mindful of in terms of participation in the classroom and workplace.

This 90-minute workshop will explore strategies for framing spaces and facilitating difficult dialogues when flash points arise due to campus events, cultural tensions, or critical national/international incidents.

In this interactive presentation, we will consider the role that language plays in perpetuating social inequality, including at Middlebury. We will also reflect on how we can change our linguistic practices in order to shift the power dynamics on our campus and in the classroom. I will first introduce several concepts from sociolinguistics that help us understand how language and privilege/power are interconnected. We will then explore how those concepts apply to a variety of communicative situations, including our own interpersonal interactions.