Inclusive Excellence Resources
Conscious or unconscious weight in favor of or against something, such as a belief, idea, group or individual. Biases can be innate, learned or conditioned. Biases affect our emotions, judgements and decision making.
Community
The interrelatedness of all individuals and groups on campus including faculty, staff, students, parents, donors, alumni, volunteers, and visitors. In a community, what happens to an individual or group, impacts the community as a whole.
Discrimination
Adverse action taken against a student, an employee or a third party by the CSU, a CSU employee, or another student because of a protected status.
Diversity
Individual and group differences including but not limited to personality; physical, cognitive, and mental abilities and disabilities; perspective of thought; learning style; life experiences; group characteristics or associations such as age, race, color, ethnicity, language, socio-economic status or class, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, immigration status, cultural, political, religious, and other ideologies and affiliations.
Equality
Providing each person with identical resources and opportunities regardless of their needs and/or circumstances.
Equity
The proportional distribution of resources, and opportunities to create desirable outcomes. In an equitable environment, an individual or group would have access to the resources they need to be successful. Sometimes confused with equality, equity refers to outcomes while equality connotes equal treatment. Where individuals or groups are dissimilarly situated, equal treatment may be insufficient for, or even detrimental to, equitable outcomes.
Federal and CA State Protected Status
Age, Disability, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Genetic Information, Marital Status, Medical Condition, Nationality, Race, Color, Ethnicity, Religion or Religious Creed, Sexual Orientation, Veteran or Military Status.
Harassment
Unwelcome conduct, based on the Complainant’s Protected Status, that is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that its effect, whether or not intended, could be considered by a reasonable person in the shoes of the Complainant, and is in fact considered by the Complainant, as limiting her/his ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities or opportunities offered by the University.
Inclusion
The appreciation that the richness of diversity within each person contributes to the overall community and is therefore recognized, respected, valued and upheld. Inclusion is the act of moving beyond tolerance and acceptance to celebrating and valuing individual uniqueness and authenticity. Inclusive actions include ensuring that all members of the community, particularly those traditionally excluded individuals and groups, are brought into campus processes, activities, discussions and decision/policymaking.
Microaggressions
Intentional and unintentional verbal, non-verbal, behavioral or environmental derogatory slights, indignities and hostilities.
Sense of Belonging
Having a meaningful voice and the opportunity to participate in, and contribute to, the design of social and cultural structures.
Social Justice
Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society which includes social responsibility.
United
Unified in a set of shared values and commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity.
Unity
Building connections within, across and between sub-communities, thereby creating and nurturing a holistically mosaic of the overall community.
Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed-Up’-rising
Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail
Response to the Murder of George Floyd –by the Minnesota Student Association
Teachers Must Hold Themselves Accountable for Dismantling Racial Oppression
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
Where is the Outrage for Breonna Taylor?
Bad Apples Come From Rotten Trees in Policing
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Highlights the Danger of Jogging While Black
Pledging to Disrupt Systemic Racism in Higher Education Advocacy
I’m a Black Climate Scientist. Racism Derails Our Efforts to Save the Planet
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias – Dolly Chugh
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do – Jennifer Eberhardt
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) – Ibram X. Kendi
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change – Stacy Abrams
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century – Barbara Ransby
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need – Sasha Costanza-Chock
Dear White Women, It’s Not You. It’s Me. I’m Breaking Up with You! – Hannah Drake
Social Justice 101: How to Become a Social Justice Advocate from A to Z – Selys Rivera
It's Time to Talk (and Listen): How to Have Constructive Conversations About Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability & Gender in a Polarized World – Anatasia S. Kim, PhD
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (The Social Justice Handbook Series) – Anneliese A. Singh, Phd, LPC
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces – Karen Katlin
"What Does Injustice Have to Do with Me?": Engaging Privileged White Students with Social Justice – David Nurenberg
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You – Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge – Layla Saad
What Does It Mean To Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy – Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation* – Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective – Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education – Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches* – Audre Lorde
Women, Race, & Class – Dr. Angela Davis
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City* – Dr. Matthew Desmond
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism – Dr. Safiya U. Noble
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code* – Dr. Ruha Benjamin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America* – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America – Ronald Takaki
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor* – Layla F.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr Joy Degruy
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide – Crystal Marie Fleming
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid – William D. Lopez
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir – Bakari Sellers
9 Podcasts That Don’t Whitewash Race
The Difference Between Being "Not Racist" and Antiracist
Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Series (YouTube Series)
- Expanding the Table for Racial Equity #1 : Building a Community
- Expanding the Table for Racial Equity #2: Structural Racism
- Expanding the Table for Racial Equity #3: White Privilege
- Expanding the Table for Racial Equity #4: Implicit Bias
- Expanding the Table for Racial Equity #5: The Role of Government
Poolside Chat with Dolly Chugh
Decolonizing Education: The Counternarrative of Being Called a Savage
Community Town Hall
Watch the community town hall for the DACA Supreme Court decision.