Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.01
Liaison Katie Koscielak
Submission Date May 8, 2013
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Cal Poly Humboldt
PAE-T2-2: Employee Training Opportunities

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Dave Bugbee
Associate Vice President
Human Resources
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Does the institution make cultural competence trainings and activities available to all employees?:
Yes

A brief description of the cultural competence trainings and activities:

In addition to the multitude of Training and Professional Development opportunities available on campus, several trainings and activities are offered regarding cultural competence.

The campus implements a bi-annual Institute on Student Success that incorporates key note speakers, workshops and book circles on topics relating to student success. Our recent Fall 2012 event invited a keynote presentation on Cultural Competency in the Classroom followed by workshops that included Alleviating Stereotype Threat in Classrooms, Interrupting Offensive Behavior, and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom. Our Fall 2012 book circles include the titles Teaching Unprepared Students by Kathleen Gabriel, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele, and The First Generation Student Experience by Jeff Davis.

Other recent trainings that have specifically focused on cultural competence include Strategies for Avoiding Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process, Supporting and Serving a Diverse Student Population, Bias Response Trainings, and Responding to Students of Concern. The Multicultural Center on campus also provides several opportunities for employees and students aimed at promoting cultural competence including a Multicultural Convocation, Humboldt Pride event, Campus Dialogue on Race, Latinologues, Moon Festival, Indigenous People’s Week, National Coming Out Day and much more.

The Employee Orientations welcome verbal and written information from multiple departments including Diversity and Inclusion, Student Disability Resource Center, Employee Assistance Program, Multicultural Center, and more. The campus also offers training in Sexual Harassment Prevention, Disability Awareness, and LGBT Safe Space Training.


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Additional information regarding cultural competence trainings can be accessed at http://www.humboldt.edu/diversity/, http://www.humboldt.edu/multicultural/, http://www.humboldt.edu/institute/ and http://www.humboldt.edu/disability/.


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