This is a clearinghouse of diversity, equity, and inclusion resources, materials, and best practices. The resources align with the College of Letters and Science Diversity, Equity and Inclusion priorities, which are: infrastructure, belonging, teaching/learning, research, faculty recruitment/retention, staff recruitment/retention, graduate student recruitment/retention and undergraduate recruitment/retention. 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.
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 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
The University of WisconsinMadison occupies ancestral Ho-Chunk land, a place their nation has called Teejop (day-JOPE) since time immemorial. In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were violently forced to cede this territory by the U.S. Government. Grappling with our differential relationships to the land we occupy is important and valuable for understanding histories of colonization and ancestral native histories. These histories inform how we reckon, heal, co-create, and share collaborative spaces and environments on campus (and beyond) as we work toward just futures. Learn more about the history of our land by engaging with the Sifting and Reckoning digital exhibit.
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.
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:
Instructors increase skills in supporting learning for students from all backgrounds, identities, and abilities
Build values around learning about social inequality and engaging with historically marginalized communities into the new L&S liberal arts curriculum
Create trainings for instructors across L&S in inclusive pedagogy
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.
Instructors increase skills in supporting learning for students from all backgrounds, identities, and abilities
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.
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
Improve the recruitment and retention of undergraduate students from historically marginalized communities in L&S. Stay tuned for more resources here in 2024.
Improve the recruitment and retention of graduate students from historically marginalized communities in L&S. Stay tuned for more resources here in 2024.
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.
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.
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.