Register here for any of the Creating an Anti-Racist Campus or Advanced Anti-Racism Training workshops.

In this foundational workshop, we will discuss the language of race and racism, the origins of race, the history of race here at the University of Rochester, and the position of our self in society. Participants will review contemporary language and gain understanding of its importance as part of the struggle for equity and when discussing race and racism. Participants will also leave with an overview of power dynamics as interwoven with the history of race and racism in the US and on campus. Finally, participants will develop a growing sense of how who we are as people—our identities—impact how we interact with each other.

In this workshop, participants will explore what we bring to the classroom and how norms inform how we manage our classrooms and labs. This exploration will help participants to understand where our identities, social selves, and experiences create different points of entry into our teaching and learning environments. Finally, participants will learn about how we all carry norms and implicit biases, which can lead to microaggressions.

In this highly interactive workshop, participants will engage with real-world applications of anti-racist concepts presented in previous sessions. By working through case studies together, participants approach race-related scenarios that commonly arise for faculty in teaching and learning environments at Rochester. Through this process participants will gain skills that inform course design, syllabus creation, classroom discussions, student "call-out," and lab group dynamics.