Welcome to our short-list of GSDO resources for faculty and staff. It is not all-inclusive of the resources available to you, but it is a great place to start.
Diversity Working Groups Toolkit
Online resource list for faculty, staff, students, and postdocs leading the charge to create more equitable and inclusive communities within graduate education. This list includes useful resources for individuals and diversity committees, councils, or task-force groups designed to strategically enhance diversity recruitment and retention.
DIVERSITY RESOURCES TO SUPPORT GRADUATE EDUCATION
- UMN Informational Reports and Resources:
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace (HR)
- Freedom of Expression: UMN Twin Cities (OSA)
- Guide: Advising & Mentoring International Graduate Students (Graduate School, ISSS, CIGS)
- Holidays and Religious Observances Calendar (OED)
- Holistic Admissions Toolkit - Guidance for Graduate Admissions After the Supreme Court Decision
- Mapping Prejudice (Libraries)
- Nonbinary Gender Pronouns for Writing (Center for Writing)
- Office of Student Affairs Student Resources (OSA)
- Planning Inclusive Events (Minnesota Foundation)
- Psychological Safety (CSE)
- Racial Justice Resources (RIDGS)
- Strategic Plan for Antiracism (SPH)
- Teaching with Access and Inclusion Resources (CEI)
- The Gender Policy Report
- TRUTH Report
- UMN Meeting Groups, Trainings, and Workshops:
- Diversity Community of Practice (DCoP)
- DCoP DEI Reading List
- Equity & Diversity Certificate Program (OED)
- Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, Resources, Education, & Training (GSC)
- Gopher Equity Project
- Provost’s Council for Student Mental Health (PCSMH)
- Strategic Plan for Antiracism (SPH)
- Teaching for Student Well-Being Program (CEI)
- Women’s Center, Workshops & Consultations
- UMN Reporting / Grievances:
- Grievance Process for Student Academic Accommodation Concerns (DRC)
- Report sexual misconduct, discrimination, or related retaliation to the Equal Opportunity & Title IX Office
- Academic Complaints related to a violation of a University rule, policy, or established practice
- Student Conflict Resolution Center (SCRC)
- Improving Campus Climate
- Mental Health Red Folder
- External Resources:
- AAC&U Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Black Midwest Initiative
- CGS Social Justice Resources
- Creating and Sustaining a Diversity Committee (U Mass Boston, Clinical Psychology Program)
- DEI Resources for Faculty & Staff (U of Iowa, College of Engineering)
- DEI Strategic Plan (Carnegie Mellon, College of Humanities & Social Sciences)
- DEI Toolkit (U of Michigan, School of Social Work)
- Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
- Gender Pronouns (UW-Milwaukee, LGBTQ+ Resource Center)
- Land Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-grant University System (2020)
- Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006)
- Resources to Unlearn Implicit Bias (MSW Online)
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Do you have suggestions of more resources we ought to share here? If so, please email them to us at gsdo@umn.edu.
Diversity Recruitment
Learn how you can help us create a more diverse and inclusive graduate student body. The Diversity Recruitment Toolkit provides all of the information, resources, and guidance you’ll need to connect with prospective students from underrepresented groups and backgrounds.
Graduate School Diversity Recruitment
- Diversity Recruitment Toolkit for Faculty and Staff
- DOVE Fellowship
- Graduate School Recruitment Schedule
- Holistic Admissions Toolkit - Guidance for Graduate Admissions After the Supreme Court Decision
- National Diversity Conferences - examples
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
- National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemist & Chemical Engineers Conference (NoBCCHE)
- National Science of Black Engineers (NSBE)
- Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Diversity Retention
Learn how you can help us sustain a more diverse and inclusive graduate student body. Here you will find Diversity Retention initiatives and resources such as the Summer Institute (SI), Community of Scholars Program (COSP), graduate student data sources, and more.
Graduate School Diversity Retention
Request Consultation
Graduate faculty are encouraged to connect with the GSDO to explore strategic and sustainable approaches to enhanced recruitment and retention efforts for BIPOC and underrepresented graduate students.
Videos on Diversity
Toward Inclusivity
Watch video segments of U of M graduate students and postdoctoral researchers sharing perspectives and experiences regarding diversity and inclusivity in graduate education, with some segments followed by reflection questions.