Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Resources

Harvard University Guiding Documents on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

• Presidential Taskforce on Inclusion and Belonging Final Report: Pursuing Excellence on a Foundation of Inclusion
• Presidential Taskforce on Inclusion and Belonging- Promising Practices Catalog 

Harvard University Native American Program

• Land Acknowledgement

Central Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

• University-Wide EDIB Resource Providers
• OEDIB Email Newsletter 
• OEDIB University-wide events calendar 
• OEDIB Guides & Toolkits 
• Affinity Spaces
• The Harvard Culture Lab

Center for Workplace Development (Harvard Human Resources)

• Harvard-Wide EDIB Trainings (Harvard Key Required)
  • Introduction to DIB Academy
  • Understanding Unconscious Bias
  • Anti-Black Racism
  • From Ally to Accomplice
  • Addressing Microaggressions
  • The Intersection of Power, Privilege, and Oppression
  • Between the Lines: Discerning and Mitigating Bias in the Selection Process
  • Inclusive Hiring Initiative: TAD Talk Series
  • Enabling a Culture of Speaking Up (Managers Only)
  • Inclusion for Innovation and Engagement for Managers (Managers Only)

Ableism

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Book)
• Beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act: Inclusive Policy and Practice for Higher Education (Book)
• Higher Education’s Challenge: Disability Inclusion on Campus (American Council on Education)
• Universal Design for Learning
  • Part 1: Definitions and Explanations (Video)
  • Part 2: UDL Guidelines (Video)
  • Part 3: Engagement Strategies (Video)
  • Part 4: Representation Strategies (Video)
  • Part 5: Action and Expression Strategies (Video)
  • Part 6: Culturally Diverse Learners (Video)

Antiracism

• Anti-Racism Resources for the Workplace (Harvard HR Center for Workplace Development)
• What it Means to be Antiracist (Vox)
• Black Lives Matters Capsule (Berklee School of Music)
• Reparations in Higher Education (Scholars for Social Justice)
• When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels (Harpers Bazaar)
• Seeing White Podcast (Scene on Radio)
• Hard Truths: Why Only Race-Conscious Policies Can Fix Racism in Higher Education (The Education Trust)
• Anti-Racism Resources for the Workplace (Harvard HR Center for Workplace Development)
• The 1619 Project- All Articles (New York Times) and Podcast
• Intersectionality Matters! With Kimberle Crenshaw (African American Policy Forum)
• Pod for the Cause (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)

Bystander Intervention Resources

• Bystander Intervention Tips and Strategies (National Sexual Violence Resource Center)
• Helping Harvard Engage in Bystander Intervention (Harvard University Office of Gender Equity)
• How to Be an Active Bystander When You See Casual Racism (New York Times)
• Practicing Active Bystander Intervention (RAINN)
• A Bystander’s Response to Workplace Harassment (Office of Congressional Workplace Rights)

Campus Climate

• An Overview of Campus Climate (University of Texas)
• Assessing the Value of Climate Assessments: Progress and Future Directions (Journal of Diversity in Higher Education)
• Speaking Truth and Acting With Integrity: Confront Challenges of Campus Racial Climate (American Council on Education)
• Improving the Campus Climate for LGBTQ Students Using the Campus Pride Index (New Directions for Student Services)

Christian Hegemony

• Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education (Book)

Classism

• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Book)
• Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong (The Atlantic)
• Microaggressions and Social Class Identity in Higher Education and Student Affairs (Article)

Freedom of Expression & Academic Freedom

• To the Point: Campus Inclusion and Freedom of Expression- Hateful Incidents on Campus (American Council on Education)
• The Practices of Freedom: Freedom of Speech, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance (Higher Education Today

Homophobia/Heterosexism

• LGBTQ Students on Campus: Issues and Opportunities for Higher Education Leaders (Higher Education Today)
• Proud and Thriving Framework (Jed Foundation)
• A Retrospective of LGBT Issues on U.S. College Campuses: 1990-2020 (Article)
• Affirming LGBTQ+ Students in Higher Education (American Psychological Association)
• Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum Student Experiences in American Higher Education (Tyler Clement Center & Foundation)

Implicit Bias

• Project Implicit (Harvard University)
• Unconscious Bias (Linkedin Learning)

Mental Health

• Pedagogy of Healing: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Resilience (Inside Higher Ed)
• State of Mind in the College Classroom (Faculty Focus)
• Student Mental Health and the Law (Jed Foundation)
• Campus Mental Health (American Psychological Association)
• Well-Being for Students with Minoritized Identities (American Council on Education)

Microaggressions

• Examples of Microaggressions & Underlying Meaning (Adapted from Book: Microaggressions in Everyday Life)
• How to Facilitate Triggering Situations (Western Washington University)
• Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders (American Psychologist)
• Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias (Book)
• Microintervention Toolkit (University of Southern California)
• Guidelines for Discussing Incidents of Hate, Bias, and Discrimination (University of Michigan)

​​​​​​​Racism

• Harvard University Racial Justice Resources (Harvard University Libraries)
• Race and Racial Equity in Higher Education (American Council on Education)
• A Framework for Advancing Anti-Racism Strategy on Campus (National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education)
• Navigating a Racial Crisis: Lessons Learned from Missouri (American Council on Education)
• White Supremacy Culture- Still Here (Tema Okun)
• Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege (Racial Equity Tools)
• Systemic Racism in Higher Education (Article)
• Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education (Book)
• Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Book)
• Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education: Counternarratives for Racial Justice (book)

Sexism 

• Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Competencies in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
• Gender and Sexuality in Higher Education (American Association of University Professors)
• Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy: Higher Education, Gender, and Intersectionality (Book)
• Sexism, Racism, Prejudice, and Bias: A Literature Review and Synthesis of Research Surrounding Student Evaluations of Courses and Teaching (Article)

Transphobia/Cisexism

• Transgender Students in Higher Education (Williams Institute)
• Transgender Students in College (Lambda Legal)
• Suggested Best Practices for Supporting Trans Students (Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals)

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Vocabulary 

• Foundational Concepts & Affirming Language (Harvard University OEDIB)​​​​​​​