L&S DEI Resource Hub
You can view the full priorities in L&S Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC).The hub is a living place that is continuously updated with relevant local, state and national information for DEI leads, chairs, and influencers within departments, centers, institutes, and units within L&S. **If you would like to submit an article, toolkit, video, or any other resource that you can upload, please do it here. That way we can triage it into the most appropriate location on the hub, and it can still be co-created by all of us!
Introduction to the Hub: Read Me First
This hub is intended to be a user-friendly way for you to navigate DEI resources in the campus, community, and beyond. This hub is iterative and a work in progress. With all of the changes at local, state, and national levels, we hope to update this hub regularly with relevant and accessible information for you to apply in your departments.
The hub is specific to the eight College of L&S Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Priorities: Infrastructure, Belonging, Teaching/Learning, Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Staff, and Research.
The College also hosts a variety of learning opportunities including a monthly learning series and office hours. You can find follow up materials from those events here. For more information on the College-wide DEI training opportunities, please email Mel Freitag, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training and Innovation in L&S at mbfreitag@wisc.edu
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L&S DEI Priority #1: Infrastructure
Infrastructure
The purpose of the infrastructure priority is to strengthen the DEI systems, staffing, and policy in L&S and increase capacity for taking on DEI work within units. This could include building an equity and diversity committee, adding a staff position, and strategic action planning.
Position Vacancy Listings (PVL) examples for DEI positions
Building your Equity and Diversity Committee
Inclusive Facilities guidelines and list of lactation rooms
Inclusive Communications Guide
Infrastructure of DEI: Relevant literature
L&S DEI Priority #2: Belonging
Belonging
The purpose of belonging is creating a greater sense of belonging for all students, faculty, and staff within L&S.
Badger Belonging and Flourishing Project
Box folder with relevant literature
Campus Programs and Resources:
WISELI Celebrating Women and Gender Diversity in Science & Engineering Grant Program
L&S DEI Priority #3: Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning is central to diversity, equity and inclusion. Below are example activities and links to both College and campus-wide resources related to teaching and learning.
Potential activities related to DEI in Inclusive Teaching and Learning:
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Instructors increase skills in supporting learning for students from all backgrounds, identities, and abilities
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Build values around learning about social inequality and engaging with historically marginalized communities into the new L&S liberal arts curriculum
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Create trainings for instructors across L&S in inclusive pedagogy
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Support units in adding DEI requirements to curriculum
The L&S Exchange is a resource for academic departments to pursue L&S DEI priorities for teaching and learning. The Exchange offers opportunities to explore relevant ideas, reflect personally and collectively, contribute ideas, pre-planned group discussions, and adapt new strategies. Specifically, The Exchange helps advance the following DEI Priorities.
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Instructors increase skills in supporting learning for students from all backgrounds, identities, and abilities
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Build values around learning about social inequality and engaging with historically marginalized communities into the new L&S liberal arts curriculum
The Exchange is created by and for the College, featuring local voices, examples, and ideas from participants. It currently features two options. Access materials at idc.ls.wisc.edu.
Inclusive Teaching
Identify Attributes of Inclusive Teaching: L&S Instructional Design Collaborative
Examine Opportunities for Inclusive Teaching: L&S Instructional Design Collaborative
Consider Social Identities: L&S Instructional Design Collaborative
Community Agreement examples
Facilitating Dialogue and Discussion
Comparing Discussion, Dialogue and Debate from the University of Washington MIGR institute
Social Identity
Responding to Microaggressions
Campus Programs and Resources
Delta Program at UW-Madison. The Delta Program promotes the development of a future national faculty in the natural and social sciences, engineering, and mathematics that is committed to advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences.
Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring (CTLM) at UW-Madison. Their mission is to support instructors at all career stages in their continuing growth as practitioners of the complex, dynamic, and rewarding craft of teaching. E
Teaching Evaluations from L&S Departments
DEI in Teaching and Learning: Relevant Literature
L&S DEI Priority #4: Faculty
Improve the recruitment and retention of faculty from historically marginalized communities in L&S
L&S DEI Faculty/Staff Recruitment
L&S DEI Faculty/Staff Retention
L&S DEI Faculty/Staff Training Programs
Faculty Diversity: Relevant literature
Campus Programs and Resources
WISELI Searching for Excellence & Diversity: Workshop for Faculty Search Committees
Vilas Life Cycle Professorships
WISELI Study of Faculty work-Life survey report
Resources for New Faculty and Staff from Office of the Vice Provost of Faculty and Staff
Professional Groups and Networks list from OHR Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well Being
Communities (BIPOC, LGBTQ , etc) from OHR Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well Being
National Programs and Resources:
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
L&S DEI Priority #5: Undergraduate Students
Improve the recruitment and retention of undergraduate students from historically marginalized communities in L&S. Stay tuned for more resources here in 2024.
Undergraduate Student Recruitment
Undergraduate Student Retention
2022 campus-wide student climate survey results summary
2023 AIM L&S DEI Undergraduate Metrics Report (scroll down to "UW Madison netID" to access report)
DEI with Undergraduate Students: Relevant Literature
L&S DEI Priority #6: Graduate Students
Improve the recruitment and retention of graduate students from historically marginalized communities in L&S. Stay tuned for more resources here in 2024.
Holistic Admissions for Graduate Students - The Graduate School
Graduate Student Retention
Box folder with relevant literature
Most recent campus-wide student climate survey results summary
L&S DEI Priority #7: Staff
Improve the recruitment and retention of staff from historically marginalized communities in L&S
L&S DEI Faculty/Staff Recruitment
L&S DEI Faculty/Staff Retention
Campus-wide staff climate survey results summary
Staff DEI: Relevant Literature
Professional Groups and Networks list from OHR Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well Being
Communities (BIPOC, LGBTQ , etc) from OHR Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well Being
Hostile and Intimidating Behavior Policy, Processes, and Resources
Dean of Students Office
(For students)
Contact 263-5700 or dean@studentlife.wisc.edu
Employee Assistance Office
226 Lowell Center, 608-263-2987 or eao@mailplus.wisc.edu
LifeMatters
The Employee Assistance Office (EAO) has expanded its services to provide employees with free and confidential statewide coverage, and 24/7 telephone access to professional counselors in support of employees personal and work-related concerns. For more information, go to LifeMatters or download the LifeMatters Brochure.
Graduate School
Ervin H. Kipp Cox , Director, Academic Services
217 Bascom Hall, ervin.cox@wisc.edu
HIB Liaisons
HIB Liaisons have volunteered to serve as points of contact for those who have experienced, have witnessed, or have questions about hostile and intimidating behavior.
Office of Compliance
361 Bascom Hall
Contact 608-265-6018 or uwcomplianceoffice@wisc.edu
Office of Postdoctoral Studies
1210 Health Sciences Learning Center
Contact 608-265-6225 or contact@postdoc.wisc.edu
Office of the Provost
Beth Meyerand, Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff
125 Bascom Hall, 608-262-9314 or vpfsa@provost.wisc.edu
Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff
270 Bascom Hall
Contact 608-263-2985 or soas@soas.wisc.edu
Office of the Secretary of the Faculty
133 Bascom Hall
Contact 608-265-4562 or sof@secfac.wisc.edu
Office of Workforce Relations
Megan Dzyuba, Director of Workforce Relations
21 North Park Street, 608-890-3663 or megan.dzyuba@wisc.edu
Ombuds Office
Contact 608-265-9992 or uwombuds@mailplus.wisc.edu
223-225 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street
Your local HR contacts
Find HR professionals who can help you in the list of HR contacts by division, school, or college.
You can also ask your supervisor to help you get in contact with your HR department.
Employee Organizations
AFSCME 2412 for administrative support: local2412office@gmail.com
AFSCME 171 for blue-collar and technical positions: afscmelocal171.union-local.org
L&S DEI Priority #8: Research: Under Construction
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Align research practices with DEI values across L&S
Equity-centered research
Equity-minded research
STEM in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Campus DEI in research
DEI in Research: Relevant Literature