The Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Programs offers training and compiles resources, published here, for all members of our WCU community. Making Diversity Personal requires that each one of us accepts the responsibility for our workplace culture and the educational climate at Western Carolina University.
An initiative to support student veterans and educate the campus community. For more information, contact Briana Ford, Director of Military Student Services, at 828-227-3074 or blford@wcu.edu.
The Safe Zone Program provides training to students, faculty, staff, and community members to increase awareness and sensitivity to issues of gender and sexuality. Safe Zone also creates a network of support, resources, and allies committed to supporting gender, sexuality, and identity issues reflected in the campus and the local community.
Click here to register for training. Please, direct your questions to safezone@email.wcu.edu.
"The National Coalition Building Institute is an international non-profit leadership development network dedicated to the elimination of racism and other forms of oppression." We have our own group of trainers at WCU that are equipped to facilitate diversity and inclusion training across campus. Training sessions are planned to begin in April 2018. Click here to learn more about NCBI and how to register for training.
Please, direct questions to ncbi@wcu.edu.
WCU will offer the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI), the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence, to faculty, staff, and students beginning Summer 2018. The IDI is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve both international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes. The cost for the survey, feedback and individualized intercultural development plan is $30. Questions? Contact Jill Cargile, Director of the Intensive English Program and IDI® Licensed Qualifying Examiner, at jscargile@wcu.edu.
Currently, under development, this certificate program will help students to develop an appreciation for their own cultural identities. Additionally, students will utilize that awareness to become critically self-reflective in their focus around differences in the cultural identities of others as viewed through the lenses of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation and others.