Inclusion & Equity Learning Opportunities
Poetry for Well-being: An Interactive Workshop
Explore your inner creativity through an interactive poetry workshop. Rotate through hands-on stations featuring blackout poetry, guided prompts, freewriting, and collage-making while taking time to slow down, reflect, and create. No experience required.
Things We Imagined: Screening & Talk-Back with Filmmakers
Join us for a special screening of Things We Imagined, a powerful documentary that explores the journeys, aspirations, and lived experiences of Black faculty in higher education.
Green Zone Training: Supporting Veterans and Military-Connected Students
Green Zone Training at Grand Valley State University is a professional development program designed for faculty and staff to strengthen their understanding of the experiences of student veterans and military-connected students.
Teach-In Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rosie Perez
Teaching to Transgress: Using the Ecological Validation Model to Promote Student Learning, Development, and Success
Teach-In
The “GVSU Teach-In: Lifelong Learning toward Educational Equity and Action” is a campus-wide, student-centered learning experience dedicated to advancing educational equity across the university.
Teach-In
The “GVSU Teach-In: Lifelong Learning toward Educational Equity and Action” is a campus-wide, student-centered learning experience dedicated to advancing educational equity across the university.
Conscious Uncovering 102
This workshop explores "covering": the act of concealing marginalized identities as a protective response to stigma. Through personal stories and examples, participants examine its forms, causes, and emotional toll.
Every Body Belongs: Movement, Self-Care & Social Justice
We’re constantly told how our bodies should look, move, perform, and take up space, even how we should care for them. What happens when we listen to our bodies instead?
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT)
As part of the 2027 National Day of Racial Healing (January 19), the Inclusion and Equity Institute at GVSU invites interested faculty and staff to join its cohort of TRHT participants.
Equity and Sustainability: What's the Connection?
This introductory workshop will explore the deep connections between equity and sustainability. Participants will discuss ways to center social equity in sustainability and learn about opportunities to support this work.
Removing Language Barriers to Student Success and Belonging
College is a foreign culture and language to new students. Using TESOL's 6 Principles, this workshop equips academic professionals as cultural guides, helping students gain the language skills to navigate and belong in their new college culture.
Domestic Violence and the Workplace
Domestic violence has a devastating impact on individuals, workplaces, and the economy. In the U.S., domestic violence accounts for an estimated 8 million lost workdays each year and $8.3 billion annually in medical expenses and lost productivity.
Understanding and Interrupting Implicit Bias 201
This intermediate workshop builds on prior learning around implicit bias and microaggressions, moving from awareness to practice through deeper reflection, real-world application, and tools to interrupt harm.