Students, employees, and community members can receive additional training from the Office of Equity through pre-scheduled and/or by-request sessions.
Participants in the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE 10) program can earn an Engage or Implement badge by participating in many of the additional trainings provided by the Office of Equity.
Pre-Scheduled Trainings for Employees
Conducting an Inclusive Search: Best Practices
Open to all faculty, staff, and students who serve on a search or hiring committee. This training will help you understand the ways in which you can limit bias during the hiring and search process. The training highlights various parts of the hiring process, from establishing procedures to evaluating candidate interviews.
**In instances where most of your committee would like to attend this training, please schedule a training specifically for your committee using the request form at the bottom of the page.
Spring Training Schedule
Open to all faculty, staff, and student employees. All trainings are virtual via Zoom and include interactive group discussions.
Please check back in January for information about the pre-scheduled sessions for spring 2024.
By Request Trainings
By request trainings for groups (employees, students, and community members) are available year-round. If you would like to request one of these trainings for your group, fill out the additional training topics request form at the bottom of the page.
Bystander Intervention
“Upstanding” is a bystander intervention approach for the prevention of a variety of problematic situations. The purpose of the Upstanding training is to prepare members of the USU campus community with the skills and knowledge needed to safely and effectively intervene when they sense a threat or potential harm to another.
Request this program at upstander.usu.edu
Bias, Discrimination, and Inclusion
The Office of Equity’s “Conducting an Inclusive Search: Best Practices” training will help hiring and search committees understand the ways in which they can limit bias during the hiring and search processes. It is an interactive training that focuses on the various aspects of the processes (from establishing group operating procedures to evaluating candidate interviews). It can be tailored to the needs of the individual hiring or search committee.
The Office of Equity's "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Basics" training is an introduction to those topics. The training provides an overview of why diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are important. It focuses on how individuals can use personal learning about identity and implicit biases, bystander intervention strategies, and assessment and goal setting to enhance their cultural competency skills.
Utah State University’s Principles of Community (diversity, human dignity, and social responsibility) embody what it means to have a welcoming campus for all members of the institution. One way that USU faculty and staff can implement the Principles of Community is through engaging in behaviors that include others and are considerate of personal biases. The Office of Equity’s “Creating a Welcoming Campus Environment: Inclusion and Implicit Bias” presentation is an interactive program that will equip faculty and staff with the tools to recognize and overcome personal biases and address biases in others. The program incorporates large and small group discussions and personal reflection questions.
Training content includes discussion scenarios. Groups can instead request a tailored version of the training where scenarios are replaced with student/employee dossiers. The dossiers allow for specific discussion about how identity affects implicit bias in specific contexts.
The Office of Equity’s “Affecting Systemic Change: Implicit Bias and Inclusion” presentation is a follow-up to the "Creating a Welcoming Campus Environment: Inclusion and Implicit Bias" presentation. Part two is an interactive program that will equip faculty and staff with the tools to recognize and overcome systemic and workplace biases. The presentation builds upon the content from part one by again incorporating large and small group discussions and personal reflection questions.
Contrapower harassment occurs when someone in an official position of power (such as a course instructor or supervisor) is harassed by a person without assigned power (such as a student or supervisee). The Office of Equity’s “Navigating Contrapower Harassment” training is an interactive workshop that provides a space of empowerment for employees who might experience contrapower harassment. The workshop is a large group discussion on how to navigate contrapower harassment. It emphasizes that contrapower harassment is never the fault of the person who experiences it, even though they’re in an official position of power.
The Office of Equity’s “Policy 305: Discrimination and Protected Classes Overview” training is interactive and focuses on strategies for creating an equitable workplace and how to navigate discriminatory conduct. The training additionally reviews the university’s anti-discrimination policies, including the definitions of discrimination and protected classes, as well as how to report discriminatory conduct to the university.
The Office of Equity’s “Sex-based Discrimination” training is a version of the “Discrimination and Protected Classes Overview” training with a specific focus on biased and discriminatory conduct based on sex. It is interactive and includes strategies for navigating discriminatory conduct that is based on sex and how to create a workplace that is equitable for all sexes. The training additionally reviews the university’s anti-discrimination policies, including the definitions of discrimination and protected classes, as well as how to report discriminatory conduct to the university.
Group/Employee Relationships
The Office of Equity’s “Boundary Setting” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to set and communicate healthy boundaries within their relationships, including amongst colleagues, supervisors/administrators, supervisees, students, and peers. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding how boundary setting within relationships can minimize sexual misconduct and discriminatory behaviors. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
The Office of Equity’s “Conflict Management” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to identify and reframe conflict to respond more effectively when conflict arises, especially in a workplace or academic setting. Specific emphasis is placed on how navigating conflict appropriately can create healthier relationships. This program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
The Office of Equity’s “Effective Workplace Relationships” presentation is an interactive program that supports faculty and staff in developing and maintaining effective workplace relationships. Specific emphasis is placed on how boundary setting, conflict management, and effective workplace relationships can minimize sexual misconduct and discriminatory behaviors. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities. The content of this training is a brief overview of multiple topics that can be explored in-depth during the Office of Equity’s other Employee Relationships programs: Power Dynamics, Conflict Management, and Boundary Setting.
The Office of Equity’s “Holding Ourselves and Others Accountable” training provides a space for individuals to discuss how to address harm in the USU community by holding each other (and ourselves) accountable with empathy. Group discussions help participants identify barriers to accountability and develop skills to better support each other in being accountable.
The Office of Equity’s “Power Dynamics” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to recognize power dynamics within their relationships, including amongst colleagues, supervisors/administrators, supervisees, students, and peers. Specific emphasis is placed on how understanding power dynamics within relationships can minimize sexual misconduct and discriminatory behaviors. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
Sexual Misconduct
The Office of Equity’s “Relationship Violence” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to recognize relationship violence behaviors, why people engage in abusive behaviors, and why people stay in unhealthy and abusive relationships. Specific emphasis is placed on how relationship violence behaviors can show up in the workplace or academic setting and how to help individuals who are experiencing relationship violence. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
The Office of Equity’s “Sexual Assault” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals about sexual assault behaviors, boundaries, and consent. Specific emphasis is placed on how sexual assault impacts individuals who experience it and how to help individuals who have experienced sexual assault. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
The Office of Equity’s “Sexual Harassment” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to recognize sexual harassment behaviors and why people engage in them. Specific emphasis is placed on how sexual harassment behaviors can show up in the workplace or academic setting and how to help individuals who are experiencing sexual harassment. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
The Office of Equity’s “Stalking” presentation is an interactive program that teaches individuals how to recognize stalking behaviors and why people engage in them. Specific emphasis is placed on how stalking behaviors can show up in the workplace or academic setting and how to help individuals who are experiencing stalking. The program includes large and small group discussions and personal reflection opportunities.
Additional Training Topics Request Form
