Learning Resources
The University of Virginia’s Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DDEI) has compiled information about a broad range of diversity, equity, inclusion, civil rights, and anti-racism learning resources, recommended by members of the UVA community. While not an exhaustive list of all the potential learning resources that may be available to you, the information below provides a wide range of ways to learn about histories, ideas, strategies, and skills that contribute to building our collective capacity for inclusive excellence. We are listing a broad range of resources, many of them free. For academic courses that may be of interest, visit the UVA Engaged course listing site. The University also hosts a broad range of conferences, symposia, and special events relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, civil rights, and anti-racism. Regularly check the UVA Calendar to learn about additional opportunities throughout the year.
- UVA In-Person/Live Learning Sessions
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Through performance and dialogue, UVA Acts promotes preventative practices that foster equitable, vibrant spaces for working and learning at the University of Virginia. Key performances include:
- Inclusive Teaching: First Days
- Hot Moments in the Classroom
- Search Signals
Teaching Faculty; GTAs: Curriculum Designers; Faculty search committee members
Implicit bias; growth mindset; inclusive teaching; cultural wealth; difficult conversations
The Provost’s office provides a broad range of faculty development sessions that specifically work to build inclusive competence including:
- Teaching Race at UVA (application-based)
- Leadership in Academic Matters (nomination-based)
- Faculty Search Seminars
Teaching and Research faculty; Department Chairs; Faculty Search committee members
Racial History; Inclusive Leadership; implicit bias
HoosBrave is a volunteer organization within UVA that provides learning sessions and some custom consultation for areas seeking a program of diversity and inclusion learning. HoosBrave currently offers 3-4 courses and maintains a curated list of learning resources. The courses include:
Multicultural Fluency
BraveSpace
Growing Deeper: The Power of Privilege
Faculty; Staff; Students
Brave Space; multicultural; intersectionality; privilege, racial identity development
University Human Resources provides access to online training and in-person/live training session on a range of topics. Team Workshops and bundles of courses can be requested that cover topics such as communicating across differences, generations in the workplace, and many others.
Faculty; Staff; Managers
Difficult conversations; inclusive leadership; collaboration; authentic leadership; emotional intelligence
The staff of the School of Medicine’s diversity office offers implicit bias and bystander intervention learning programs targeted to the medical education and healthcare environments. Programs for residents and fellows are also available.
UVA Health faculty, staff, students, residents, and fellows.
Implicit Bias; Bystander Intervention; Health Equity
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) offers a range of programs and consultations focused on pedagogy, curriculum, and inclusive teaching. Resources include an inclusive syllabus rubric, an institute on teaching for race and social justice, accessibility, and several others.
Teaching Faculty; GTAs
Inclusive teaching; universal design; teaching race; inclusive syllabi; course design
UVA’s Student-led Sustained Dialogue organization offers a range of dialogue opportunities that run for the course of a semester. Dialogue is specifically engaged to promote understanding across difference. There are both weekly dialogues and open dialogues.
Students
Dialogue; socioeconomic diversity; racial diversity; gender-based violence
The MPE Program aims to create multicultural educational opportunities and promote social awareness through workshops incorporating student experiences and academic literature of social justice education. MPE host open workshops, dorm presentations, and organization/classroom requests.
Students; Faculty; Staff
Social Justice; Identity; Privilege; Power; Cycle of Socialization
Hoos Got Your Back focuses on promoting a culture of sexual respect and offers bystander intervention training.
Faculty; staff; students
Sexual Respect; Bystander Intervention
EOCR offers training on the University non-discrimination policies, inclusive search procedures, disability awareness, and preventing and addressing gender-based violence and harassment. Coaching sessions can be requested in response to bias incidents and some custom programs may be available.
Faculty; staff; students
Non-discrimination; employment equity; disability awareness; preventing gender-based violence; coaching
ODEI regularly hosts events to promote learning and intercultural engagements. Overview sessions for Inclusive Excellence planning and an introduction to anti-racism definitions and practices is available upon request. Some custom programs and consultations may be available.
Faculty; staff; students; alumni; community
Inclusive Excellence; anti-racism; equity; inclusion
LGBTQ Student Services offers three workshops including Safe Space Foundations, A Primer on Pronouns; and Trans*itioning. The area also coordinates the LGBTQ Speakers Bureau which includes volunteers who speak to the LGBT experience on Grounds.
Faculty; staff; students; alumni; community
LGBTQ; transitioning; gender; pronouns
- Online Learning
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LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers a broad range of diversity, inclusion, and belonging courses that are self-paced. Access is open to everyone through the UVA Library. UVA Workday includes all LinkedIn learning courses which allows managers to assign trainings to their entire staff.
Faculty; Staff; Students
Diversity; inclusion; belonging
Coursera offers a range of online courses, many of which can be accessed for free or taken for a fee to obtain a completion certificate. There are many related to intergroup dialogue, social justice organizing, and leading for diversity and inclusion in higher education. There are also opportunities for deeper learning on topics like gender diversity, racial diversity and history, and many others.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Diversity; Inclusion; race; gender; social justice
The Kirwan Institute offers a free and self-paced course on understanding and interrupting implicit bias.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Implicit bias
Subscription Required
Some open events are hosted
The American Council on Education offers higher education faculty and staff a broad range of development activities. These include promoting inclusive classrooms, race, equity, healing from racial crisis and many others. A range of publications are also available.
Faculty; Staff
Diversity; inclusion; equity; race; pedagogy; crisis response
Subscription Required
Some open events are hosted
The Association of American Colleges & Universities offers a range of conferences, webinars, and online engagement opportunities. There is a focus on inclusive excellence, democracy, and equity. A range of research reports and other publications are available.
Faculty; Staff
Diversity; inclusion; belonging; participatory democracy; equity; inclusive excellence
For Fee Institutes and Academies
The University of Southern California Center for Race Equity offers online courses and leadership institutes which build inclusive capacity broadly, and specifically as relates to racial equity.
Faculty; Staff
Race equity; equity-mindedness
National Conference on Race & Ethnicity
Free and fee-based webinars
NCORE hosts a range of webinar series on race and equity in higher education.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Race; social identity; equity; inclusion; campus culture; resilience; power; social justice
- Anti-Racism and Inclusion Resources/Compilations
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National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About Race
A comprehensive resource that scaffolds information related to racialized history of what is now called the United States including the specific histories for European immigrants, enslaved Africans; Indigenous people; Latinx communities; and Asian communities.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
A broad range of articles, online learning opportunities; toolkits and guides that promote anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion more broadly.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; white privilege
A broad range of articles, online learning opportunities; toolkits and guides that promote anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion more broadly.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; racial equity
A podcast from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University exploring the history and ongoing racial project surrounding whiteness.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
A range of videos from collaborations with the New York times that explore race, bias, and identity development
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
A range of readings in long and short form; film and other media recommendations.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
A series of articles written by the University community which detail key aspects of the University’s racialized history.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; UVA Race Histories
A guide for building allyship skills with a focus on anti-racist allyship.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; allyship
A series of articles and podcast series from the New York Times exploring anti-black racism and slavery since the first ship arrived in Virginia with enslaved Africans in 1619.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
National Museum of the American Indian: Native Knowledge 360
A series of digital lessons documenting a range of topics related to the indigenous dispossession and U.S. colonial imperialism and treaty history.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; indigenous sovereignty
UVA Miller Center Race and Criminal Justice: A Tortured History
A collection of lectures, articles, and recordings from the UVA Miller Center that document race and the criminal justice system.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
Facing History offers learning on a range of topics and while everyone can benefit it is also geared to providing support for youth educators.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community; Youth
Anti-racism; racial history
The AntiRacist Table Co-led by a UVA Alum (Col '93), The AntiRacist Table is a multidimensional platform that helps people bring antiracism into life as a daily practice, in large part through a curated free 30 Day Challenge.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
- Speakers/Facilitators External to UVA (For Fee Services)
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The SUM is located in Charlottesville and offers free and for fee trainings and consultations to a range of groups and is focused on leveraging the power of difference.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Located in Richmond, VA, Dr. Richards provides a range of workshops and consultation opportunities specific to higher education diversity, equity, inclusion, and teaching.
Faculty; Staff; Students
Called to Justice is located in Charlottesville and was founded by Christina Rivera. CTJ offers bystander intervention training, anti-racism diversity training, individual and small group coaching, and retreats.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Part of the Institute or Democratic Education and Culture, Speak Out offers webinars, special events, and a compilation of diversity programming and speakers that can be booked.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
World Trust creates films, curriculum, and workshops for social justice and equity movement building.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Led by diversity expert Dr. Kathy Obear a range of diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism workshops, coaching, and resources are available. Custom session development is available.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Undoing Racism offers programs and workshops for “undoing racism”, promoting community organizing, and building anti-racist networks. Among their programs is an institute for youth.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community; Youth
Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Racial Equity Institute is an alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who support the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems. They can help lead workshops, presentations, coaching sessions, and custom focus sessions.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
VisitAble is a new start-up based mainly in Central & Northern Virginia working on listing and certifying businesses everyday, as well as constantly improving their accessibility tests and disability etiquette training to strengthen their resource. At its core, VisitAble was created to make going out in public fun, easy, and possible for those with disabilities.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
- Read/Watch/Listen
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The Deans for Diversity and Inclusion at the UVA Darden school of business curated a short reading list to start your racial allyship journey.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
A compilation created by social justice educator Paul Kivel. Kivel’s work spans a range of topics and you may want to explore more topics from the overarching site where this list is hosted.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
While you do not need to buy a book from their store, Duende District maintains a range of reading list compilations that are updated regularly. The store focuses on books by people of color, and women of color. There are also suggestions for youth.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community; Youth
Decolonization; anti-racism
A range of readings in long and short form; film and other media recommendations.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism
This spreadsheet has multiple tabs that include information on a broad range of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging topics.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Anti-racism; diversity; diversity; inclusion; belonging
This resource includes information on how to train individuals to be effective dialogue facilitators. This is a common need for improving intergroup relations and offering space to build understanding across difference. This DIY guide establishes a blueprint for building this capacity directly within your organization.
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Dialogue
UVA Diversity Council Education Task Force
(Excel Download)
Members of the University’s Diversity Council have compiled a list of resources to read or listen to that specifically support development related to doing broad-based diversity, equity, and inclusion work
Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni; Community
Diversity; equity; inclusion
Do you have experience facilitating DEI-related conversations or educating about related knowledge and skills? Let us know by completing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Facilitator/Educator informational form.