Stronger Together: Promoting Racial Justice through Awareness and Action

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In his June 2020 memo, President Fuchs identified a number of steps UF would be taking to address racism and create a more racially just UF. Training for all faculty and staff was among these. UFHR, along with the offices of the Chief Diversity Officer and Student Affairs, invited “100 UF voices” from across campus to a half-day online retreat to identify the knowledge and skills required to build a more racially just UF. Participants in this retreat helped identify three broad areas of focus for learning:

Fostering Awareness: Understanding anti-black racism
Building Capacity: Knowledge and skills to engage in difficult conversations on race
Promoting Action: Effecting personal and institutional change

Stronger Together

UF Training & Organizational Development will implement a Racial Justice Education initiative called Stronger Together beginning February 2021.

What is our goal?

Stronger Together will provide UF faculty and staff with a series of educational offerings to help them better understand and address racism and bias and help promote racial justice at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The context of fostering awareness, building capacity, and promoting action will weave throughout the offerings. This series will help UF move forward in efforts to combat anti-black racism and to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus.

What types of training and resources will be available?

UF’s racial justice education initiative will include a broad range of efforts and collaborations across campus including online courses, webinars, interviews, panel discussions, and a leadership series. The session information and resources will be communicated through UF At Work and made available on the Stronger Together website. The sessions will begin in February and continue into the fall of 2021.

Online Training

Managing Bias

Completion of this module is required of faculty and staff and represents an initial step in our shared efforts to better understand and begin to dismantle the individual and collective forces that support racism.

Webinar Series for Faculty and Staff

This series will include 60-90 minute webinars, interviews, and panel discussions that aim to foster awareness, build capacity, and promote action.

Sessions will be added on an ongoing basis, please check back regularly for new sessions and myTraining registration links.

View Past Webinars

A Very Brief History and Manifestations of Institutional Racism in America with Dr. David Canton

Mar. 11 from 1-2:30pm

An Interview with Dr. Katrice Graham on Race, Equity, and Diversity at the University of Florida

Mar. 18 from 10-11:30am

Understanding and Taking Action Against Anti-Black Racism with Dr. Della Mosley

May 21 from 12-1:30pm

Webinar Series for Leaders

UFHR’s Training and Organizational Development team is committed to providing leadership resources that build skills to facilitate important conversations about race, bias and prejudice in order to remove barriers that obstruct equity. Leaders set the standards for behaviors – they decide what gets endorsed, accepted, supported, overlooked, and rewarded. Inclusion does, or doesn’t, happen in thousands of moments each day. Leaders must remain vigilant of all the ways they enable inequity to persist unchallenged on their teams and take action.

View Past Webinars

The Journey Begins with You: Self-Awareness and Empathetic Listening for Leading Equity

Webinar facilitated by Tricia Bachus and Becky Younglove

Mar. 4 from 10:30am-12pm

Vulnerable Leadership

Webinar facilitated by Courtney Moon

Apr. 7 from 11am-12pm

More Resources

There are many organizations on campus doing work in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Here is a selection of additional, curated resources from across campus.

The Gators Together certificate, a diversity and inclusion program designed to increase performance and engagement by creating an inclusive environment for our diverse talents.
MCDA: Resource List
College of Dentistry: Academics for Black Lives Resource List
Libraries’ Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Anti-Racism Resources
Center For Teaching Excellence: Inclusivity In The Classroom
Department of Psychology: Anti-Racism Resources
College of Liberal Arts And Sciences: Selected Anti-Racism Resources
Health Science Center Libraries: Anti-Racism Resources
Library Antiracism Resources: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/deicommittee/antiracism_resources