Classified Staff

Participants will work together to establish shared knowledge, skills, and values for intergroup communication and collaboration. In so doing, participants will build relationships, practice dialogue, and prepare for pressing institutional and disciplinary diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges. Participants will explore foundational concepts for critical dialogic practices, explore multiple listening skills frameworks and practices listening and share with care, vulnerability, humility, and generosity. 

This workshop raises participants’ consciousness to contemporary Queer and Trans issues in higher education. Participants will be challenged to broaden and complicate their understandings of gender and sexuality. Participants will also investigate the interdependent systems of oppression which sustain inequities for Queer and Trans people. Participants will also be equipped with skills and resources to develop their capacity to engage in solidarity with Queer and Trans people.

This workshop is a continuing education update for those who have completed the Search Advocate Foundations initial workshop series and will meet the requirements for them to remain eligible to serve in that role for another year. Content changes each year, but typically introduces new tools, reinforces recommendations for advocates, and provides a forum for practice and for addressing current questions.

This workshop introduces core concepts of culturally responsive teaching. Participants will expand their notions of excellence in teaching and cultivate enthusiasm about beginning or continuing cultural responsive practice. Participants will generate ideas about where and how they may begin to transform their teaching practices to redress educational inequities.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop that utilizes group work and multimedia activities.

This workshop helps participants learn about bias incidents, what they look like, and their impact on different learning and work environments. Participants will develop a more comprehensive understanding of OSU’s bias intervention framework and protocol as well familiarize themselves with institutional resources.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop that utilizes group work and role plays.

This workshop attempts to demystify the theory and practice of social justice leadership and offers vivid and tangible examples of core concepts relative to participants institutional roles. In addition to exploring conceptual frameworks for identity, power, and privilege, participants will draw upon their own experiences to illustrate the concepts of the workshop and develop a depth of understanding that prepares them to educate others.

This is an interactive, multimodal workshop.

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New faculty and staff are encouraged to attend New Employee Orientation (offered monthly) to learn about terms of employment, review benefits/retirement options, and get connected with resources. Union informational sessions, for employees represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Academics of Oregon State University (UAOSU), are presented afterwards. 

Employees of OSU are responsible to contribute to OSU vision, mission and values, and to conduct themselves ethically, with the highest integrity, and in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and policies. The Critical Training Program prepares people through training to fulfill these commitments by completing five required programs:

Community Dialogues seeks to cultivate connection and deep learning through exploration of critical and contentious issues. Utilizing the National Issues Forum model, the Community Dialogues program aims to engage OSU community members in dialogue which deepens understanding of critical issues and the tensions within them, encourages insight into different perspectives, and inspires both individual and collective socio-political action.

The goal of the course is to introduce new OSU faculty and staff to key concepts for diversity, equity and inclusion as well as orient participants to institutional expectations, resources, and learning opportunities. As a way to continue to promote positive engagement and experiences among all faculty and staff, Oregon State University invites all new faculty and staff to complete this course, which focuses on OSU’s history and commitments to diversity and inclusion.