Training and Development Resources
Best practices in cultivating inclusivity, teaching pedagogy, and leadership are constantly evolving. It is important to provide faculty and staff with training and development opportunities to keep abreast of these evolving trends. Please visit the sites below to access training and development resources offered by George Mason University and external partners.
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GMU Opportunities
Below you can access training and development offered by George Mason University that is related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. These training are for faculty and staff. Some are required and others are optional courses.
Inclusivity Related Support
All Mason new hires are required to complete these trainings within their first 30 days of employment. All employees are required to continuously complete these trainings annually or biennially. The trainings below are offered online.
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Title IX Overview and Sexual Harassment Prevention, annually (every year)
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Equal Opportunity: A Fair Shake, biennially (every two years)
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Ethics, biennially (every two years)
Optional Courses offered
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Managing Bias
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Diversity: Inclusion in the Modern Workplace
Link: https://diversity.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/training/online-training
Safe Zone Training
Safe Zone training topics include learning and understanding LGBTQ+ identities, combating stereotypes, and learning skills to combat as an ally. These trainings are offered by the LGBTQ+ Resources Center and geared towards faculty, staff, and/or other Mason employees.
Link: https://lgbtq.gmu.edu/safe-zone/
Coalition Building and Diversity Education (CBDE) currently offers training to Mason employees. The three training tracks are:
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Beyond Diversity
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Creating Community
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The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
The Beyond Diversity Training modules incorporate topics such as micro-aggressions, gender identity, intersectionality, and implicit bias with the aim to help participants understand systemic barriers that infringe on day-to-day interactions.
Creating Community is an experimental training model that works particularly well with the identity development of first year college students and international students, focusing on how we are accommodated or may have been asked to assimilate to dominate culture based on things like our names, languages spoken, and elderships.
The premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence is used by individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes. The IDI is a cross-culturally valid, reliable, and generalizable measure of intercultural competence along the validated intercultural development continuum. (NOTE: There is a fee associated with this training)
In addition to the above training the office is able to offer training on the following:
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Gender identity
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Everyday micro-aggressions
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Inclusive programming
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Race, gender, sexuality, and the intersectionality of these traits
Link: https://ccee.gmu.edu/trainings/
Teaching Related Support
The Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning offers a range of learning and support opportunities for instructors across Mason’s campuses. Faculty can enhance their skills as educators, as reflective practitioners in their disciplines, and as scholars in teaching, learning, and research. The center promotes a climate of shared intellectual exploration and openness.
General Link: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/
Link: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/online-teaching/
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How to design my online course?
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How to build my online course?
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How to prepare my students for online learning?
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How to teach my online course?
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How does my online course & online teaching show quality?
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How to connect to a network of online faculty and designers?
Link: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/programs/trainings/
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Level 1: Teaching Essentials
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Design Workshops
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Engage Workshops
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Assess Workshops
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Level 2: Teaching Competencies
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Mini Courses:
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Designing Your Syllabus
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Designing Assignments for Engagement
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Level 3: Teaching Proficiencies
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Course design & teaching
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Zoom
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Blackboard Tools
Faculty can also set up consultations with Stearns Center staff to address questions related to teaching, managing, and developing a hybrid or online course.
Leadership Education & Development Support
There are several opportunities to grow as an inclusive leader at Mason.
These workshops are offered in person or virtually and can be offered to faculty and staff of at least 10 members.
Link: https://lead.gmu.edu/requests/
External Partner Opportunities (Not GMU)
Below you can access development opportunities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion offered by George Mason University’s external partners with whom we have affiliations with that are geared toward faculty and staff.
LinkedIn Bystander Training
This training focuses on allyship behaviors and can be used by faculty, staff, and students at Mason. Individuals have the power to change the trajectory of an organization’s culture. By going from bystander to upstander—someone who holds their coworkers accountable for bad behavior—you can turn a workplace into a supportive environment where employees are able to do their best work.
Login using GMU credentials: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/bystander-training-from-bystander-to-upstander
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
George Mason University is an Institutional Member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) and they offer access and support for faculty including a faculty success program, workshops, writing, research, and resources related to DEI.
Link: https://www.facultydiversity.org/