Social Justice and Inclusion:
Addresses the concepts and principles of student development and learning theory. This includes the ability to apply theory to improve and inform student affairs and teaching practice.
Social justice is defined as a process and a goal that includes knowledge, abilities, and dispositions in the inclusion competency area. This competency includes student affairs educators who' have a sense of their own business enterprise and social obligation that consists of others, their network, and the bigger worldwide context.
Student affairs educators might also include social justice and inclusion competencies into their practice via in search of to fulfill the wishes of all organizations, equitably distributing sources, elevating social cognizance, and repairing beyond and modern harms on campus communities. (ACPA/NASPA Competencies, 2015, Page 30)
Intermediate Outcomes
Identify systems of socialization that influence one’s multiple identities and sociopolitical perspectives and how they impact one’s lived experiences.
Understand how one is affected by and participates in maintaining systems of oppression, privilege, and power.
Engage in critical reflection in order to identify one’s own prejudices and biases.
Participate in activities that assess and complicate one’s understanding of inclusion, oppression, privilege, and power.
Integrate knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege, and power into one’s practice.
Connect and build meaningful relationships with others while recognizing the multiple, intersecting identities, perspectives, and developmental differences people hold.
Articulate a foundational understanding of social justice and inclusion within the context of higher education.
Advocate on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that impact people based on local, national, and global interconnections.
Design programs and events that are inclusive, promote social consciousness and challenge current institutional, national, global, and sociopolitical systems of oppression.
Effectively facilitate dialogue about issues of social justice, inclusion, power, privilege, and oppression in one’s practice.
Engage in hiring and promotion practices that are non-discriminatory and work toward building inclusive teams.
Identify systemic barriers to social justice and inclusion and assess one’s own department’s role in addressing such barriers.
Advocate for the development of a more inclusive and socially conscious department, institution, and profession.
Provide opportunities to reflect and evaluate on one’s participation in systems of oppression, privilege, and power without shaming others.
Provide opportunities for inclusive and social justice educational professional development.
Effectively address bias incidents impacting campus communities.
Ensure institutional policies, practices, facilities, structures, systems, and technologies respect and represent the needs of all people.
Demonstrate institutional effectiveness in addressing critical incidents of discrimination that impact the institution.
Social Justice and Inclusion Artifacts:
Artifact #1
This presentation, which I coordinated and facilitated, was designed to help students learn about the concept of microaggressions and to identify their own biases and think about ways to approach the way they view culture differently. This program reflects the foundational outcome, "Engage in critical reflection in order to identify one’s own prejudices and biases."
Artifact #2
Addressing Microaggressions
What are Microaggressions?
Microaggressions are the everyday verbal and nonverbal, snubs or insults, that whether intentional or unintentional communicate negative messages to marginalized groups (Dr. Derald Wing Sue, "Microaggressions in Everyday Life Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation" ).
As a former program coordinator at Fitchburg State University, I am honored to share my powerpoint presentation on the reality and truth of this matter. I hope after thoroughly viewing this presentation carefully you are able to understand that, "“Microaggression’s add up." "No matter how confident people from marginalized or unrepresented communities feel about their identities, microaggression's create and unsafe space and make individual feel like perpetual outsiders.” -Mira Yang
This presentation reflects the Intermediate outcomes, "Effectively facilitate dialogue about issues of social justice, inclusion, power, privilege, and oppression in one’s practice."
Think before you speak:
Ask yourself “ Do I need to say this? Is this helpful? Might it be offensive?
Use micro-affirmations:
Say things that uplift people, that welcomes them, and that honor their presence
Practice cultural humanity:
Don’t assume you know who people are. Practice ‘not knowing’ so that you are in the position of learning more about those who are around you (Self-Awarenes