Northwestern University Campus Resource Guide
Northwestern is committed to embracing diversity and promoting inclusion. The University's Campus Resource Guide directs the community to the offices and units dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. Additional resources for students, faculty, and staff can be found at Northwestern's Institutional Diversity & Inclusion resources page.
Professional Development Resources
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Practicum
Description: This practicum will draw on expertise and experience from around the University to explore practical ways to implement UDL solutions in syllabi, Canvas pages, course materials, assignments, assessments, and learning experiences.
Open to: Northwestern faculty and staff
Topics: Instruction; Accessibility; inclusion; UDL
Target Audience: Faculty
Duration: 3 weeks (5-6 hrs/week)
Format: Remote
Dates: Feb. 6 to Feb. 24, 2023
Registration Deadline: Jan. 16, 2023
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Theoretical Thursdays
Description: Theoretical Thursdays is a facilitated, cohort-based reading group intended to deepen your understanding of inclusive teaching pedagogies and principles through engaged discussions with fellow educators.
Open to: Northwestern faculty and staff
Topics: Instruction, Inclusion
Target Audience: Faculty
Duration: 6 weeks
Format: Remote
Dates: Jan 19 to March 9, 2023
Registration deadline: TBD
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Self as Inclusive Leader
Description: This foundational course helps leaders understand how individual identities and institutional/structural inequities impact workplace experiences and efficiency of individuals and teams.
Open to: Public
Topics: Cultural awareness, identity, inclusion, equity, leadership
Target audience: Faculty, senior admin, senior staff
Duration: Two days
Format: In person
Dates: Feb. 28 to March 1, 2023
Registration deadline: Feb. 1, 2023
Note: SESP discount; certificate and PD credits; tuition reimbursement
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Managing Bias for Equitable Decision Making
Description: This course explores the science behind decision-making to build your skills in making equitable judgments in organizations.
Open to: Public
Topics: Equity, Bias, Leadership
Target audience: Faculty, senior administrators, senior staff
Duration: One day
Format: In person
Date: March 2, 2023
Registration deadline: Feb. 1, 2023
Notes: SESP discount; certificate and PD credits; tuition reimbursement
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Unconscious Bias
Description: Unconscious Bias is a foundational Diversity, Equity and Inclusion workshop designed to raise your awareness about biases that exist in our daily interactions.
Open to: Northwestern faculty, staff
Topics: Bias, inclusion, equity
Target audience: All SESP
Duration: 4 hours
Format: Remote
Dates: Feb. 15 - 16, 2023
Registration deadline: Feb. 14, 2023
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Equity Inclusive STEM Teaching Project
Description: The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project is designed to advance the awareness, self-efficacy, and ability of STEM faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff to cultivate inclusive learning environments for all their students and to develop themselves as reflective, inclusive practitioners.
Open to: Public
Topics: Instruction, inclusion
Target audience: Faculty, senior admin
Duration: 6 weeks (2-3 hrs/week)
Format: Remote
Dates: March 6 to April 28, 2023
Registration deadline: March 1, 2023
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SESP Equity Book Club: A Conversation With Victor Ray
Description: Sociologist Victor Ray will discuss his latest book On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care. Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also a nonresident fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
Open to: Public
Duration: 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Date: March 30, 2023
Target audience: Faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students, students
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Leading Change for Equity and Inclusion
Description: This course will introduce tools and best practices for effectively facilitating strategic change in organizations committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ).
Open to: Public
Topics: Equity, inclusion, justice, change leadership
Target audience: Faculty, senior administrators, staff
Duration: 1.5 days
Format: In person
Dates: May 9 - 10, 2023
Registration deadline: April 3, 2023
Notes: SESP discount; certificate and PD credits; tuition reimbursement
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Driving Structural Change and Accountability
Description: This course focuses on leading the critical elements of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) work: assessment, strategic planning, initiative alignment, measurement, and changing an organization’s systems that can create barriers to change.
Open to: Public
Topics: Equity, inclusion, justice, change leadership
Target audience: Faculty, senior administration, senior staff
Duration: 1.5 days
Format: In person
Dates: May 10 - 11, 2023
Registration deadline: April 3, 2023
Notes: SESP Discount, Certificate and PD credits, Tuition Reimbursement
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Playlists
Description: This DEIB playlist complements Northwestern’s DEIB workshop offerings and provides additional resources for continual learning. The playlist contains a curated list of online courses, videos, articles, and books from renowned subject matter experts, including works from Northwestern faculty.
Open to: Northwestern faculty and staff
Topics: Diversity, equity, inclusion
Target audience: All SESP
Dates: Varies by module
Format: Remote
Dates: Ongoing
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Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Description: The Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion online short course is for business leaders interested in practical, proven tools and methods for enacting change in the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within their organization.
Open to: Public
Topics: Equity, inclusion, leadership
Target audience: Faculty, senior admin, senior staff
Duration: 6 weeks (7-10 hrs/week)
Format: Remote
Dates: Not yet listed
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