Equity and Inclusion

We recognize that excellent faculty members are developed to acknowledge biases, appreciate diversity, and engender skills for managing one’s cultural responsiveness. The following links are SMU offered and/or endorsed trainings and self-guided development materials for accomplishing such tasks.

Training

• Cultural Intelligence Initiative: SMU

Self-Guided Development

• Common Beliefs Survey: Learning for Justice
• Creating Inclusive College Classrooms, University of Michigan
• The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educator Network
• Identifying Your Own Attitudes: University of Michigan
• Inclusive Course Design, Harvard University
• Making School a Safe Place for LGBTQ Students: Cult of Pedagogy
• Project Implicit: Harvard University

For additional resources please contact the Center for Teaching Excellence or your respective diversity officer.

SMU endeavors to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion by threading these core values in every facet of University operations. The following links underscore this systemically intertwined commitment in business affairs and processes.

• Moving Forward Together
• Office of Institutional Access & Equity
• Strategic Plan

See resources below for supporting self, colleagues, and students.

• Maria Dixon Hall, Chief Diversity Officer
• SMU Diversity Officers
• Women & LGBTQ Center