Equity & Inclusion

Career Readiness Competency - Equity & Inclusion

Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures. Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.

SAMPLE BEHAVIORS

• Solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions.
• Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change.
• Advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities.
• Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that leads to personal growth.
• Keep an open mind to diverse ideas and new ways of thinking.
• Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities, and biases.
• Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments.
• Address systems of privilege that limit opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities.

• Diverse Conference
• Cultural Competency Workshop
• Inclusive Language
• Set Norms/Ground Rules
• Join/Participate in Multicultural Clubs, LGBTQ Clubs

Develop Equity and Inclusion skills by:

• Learning and meeting people with diverse cultural views to make inclusive and equitable decisions. 
• Promoting inclusion, fairness, justice, and empowerment for historically underrepresented groups. 
• Seeking global cross-cultural connections and experiences that foster personal growth and knowledge of diverse demographic groupings. 
• Openness to new ideas and ways of thinking. 
• Identifying and removing individual and systemic racism, injustices, and biases. 
• Adapting to new situations shows flexibility.