Diversity: Building Bridges to Tomorrow

 

"To Celebrate Diversity is to Appreciate and Value Individual Differences"
(Society for Human Resource Management)
Focusing on diversity and looking for more ways to be truly inclusive; making full use of the contributions of all; it is not just a nice idea, it is good sense and is the bridge to becoming the best land grant university in the nation. Diversity training is about each person coming to terms with his or her attitudes, beliefs, and expectations of others and gaining comfort with being different. Human beings are ethnocentric and see the world through their own narrow view, and judge the world by what is familiar to them. We find comfort and trust in likeness and seek to be with those most similar to ourselves. Through learning experiences, we have an opportunity to increase our awareness and understanding of diversity at ISU and to develop some skills that will facilitate open communication and a better understanding by all.

Listed below are some ways to learn about diversity, for more information please call Learning & Development at 294-1070 .

 

VIDEO LIBRARY:

The following videos are available for your use. You may want to rent one to view on your own and use the self-guided discussion that accompanies it, or to use it for your own department or group with the discussion guide for groups. A training specialist will also assist in leading your group in a discussion and awareness experience with these videos.

1. Blue Eyed

Jane Elliott's widely-known "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise most celebrated anti-racism awareness program.
2.  Different Like You - Appreciating Diversity in the 21st Century

Our concept of diversity must evolve to encompass all of the talents, preferences, affiliations, intelligence and experience that make each one of us unique as individuals.  Workforce diversity in the 21st century will focus less on what group one can be identified with, and focus more on the unique diversity of each individual as the organization's most valuable resource, its human capital.

3.  Encouraging the Heart

Video is filled practical ideas for helping others believe in themselves, celebrate their uniqueness, and discover their own value.  It's a training program both inspirational and instructional that shows how to master one of the most difficult and valuable leadership skills of all.

4. The Fairer Sex

Watch how ABC New Prime Time Live set out to discover whether there are daily differences in being a male versus a female in today's American society, particularly in the workplace.
5.  ISU Commitment to Diversity (2 copies)

6.  Land of O's

A video linking diversity with productivity, competitiveness and bottom line results. It is about how a few Xs deal with at lot of Os in a work environment. 
7.  A Peacock in the Land of Penguins
This video echoes how to manage the increasing diversity of the workforce and capture the talent, energy and commitment of all.
9. The Ramp of Hope
A social statement against stereotypical discrimination of people with disabilities.
10. Seniors
Follow-up to the Frosh video. Shows the same group of freshmen and how they are living and working together when they are seniors.
11. Shattering the Silences
This offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty themselves.
12. True Colors
Prime Time Live enlisted the services of two trained professional discrimination testers to investigate situations in which blacks and whites continue to be treated differently.