Terms to Know
This term means "The blending of different identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives within an organization/community, all of which impact the way a person is perceived and received by others, as well as how they perceive and receive the world around them."
What is Diversity?
This form of communication avoids using words, expressions, or assumptions that would unnecessarily exclude people.
What is Inclusive Language?
Who are your resources within f/s life?
Who is Sam Ryan (VP of DEI) or ISA Dei Chairs
What are categories of identity?
This term means: "The fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all people, while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented the full participation of some groups."
What is Equity?
The unconscious impact of attitudes or stereotypes on our understanding, actions, and decisions.
What is Implicit Bias?
Who is the Vice President/Director of DEI on Campus?
Who is Allison Heard?
What are gender pronouns?
What is words that people use to refer to themselves or others in a way that reflects their gender identity?
This term means "Creating an environment of open participation from all individuals with different ideas and perspectives where everyone feels they have a voice, are valued, and feel validated."
What is Inclusion?
Remarks, questions, or actions that cause harm to an individual because they have to do with a person's membership in a group that's discriminated against or subject to stereotypes
What are Microagressions?
What is the name of the center downstairs in the ACC that supports DEI
What is the H.U.B.?
What does BIPOC stand for?
What is Black, Indigenous, and people of color
This term means: "The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage."
What is Intersectionality?
Prejudiced treatment of a person on the basis of the social groups to which they belong, and stereotypes about those groups. When committed by an individual, discrimination can be broken down into two types: traditional discrimination (openly negative treatment) and modern discrimination (subtle negative treatment).
What is Discrimination?
Where can you find the DEI Incident Reporting form?
A category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
What is ethnicity?
This education amendment ensures that members of Alpha Phi are neither selected nor rejected based on age, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.
What is Title IX?
This form of language conveys respect by emphasizing the fact that people with disabilities are first and foremost just people.
What is People-First Language?
Who is the Title IX Coordinator on campus?
Who is Kim Irland
Based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. A man-made construct established to divide groups of people based on their appearances and other qualities.
What is race?