RESOURCES
LEARN • GROW • ACT
UNIVERSITY RESOURCES
Faculty & Staff
Purdue University Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Purdue Global Employee Assistance Program
Purdue Global Non-Discrimination Policy
American Psychological Association Inclusive Language Guide
These guidelines aim to raise awareness, guide learning, and support the use of culturally sensitive terms and phrases that center the voices and perspectives of those who are often marginalized or stereotyped. They also explain the origins of problematic terms and phrases and offer suitable alternatives or more contemporary replacements (American Psychology Association, 2021).
This toolkit provides facilitation resources for conversations with faculty, staff, students and more. This resource is from the Working Together Purdue System-wide Summit held in September of 2018.
English Language Learner (ELL) Outreach & Teaching Strategies
Best practices for identification, outreach, and instruction for ELL students.
Implement Inclusive Teaching Practices
From EAB
Inclusive Teaching Practices Toolkit
Association of College and University Educators
Navigating Learning Challenges
This video from the Academic Success Center offers tips for working with students with different learning abilities.
Project Implicit Self-Assessments
Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization and collaboration of researchers interested in implicit social attitudes. Seventeen different tests measure implicit biases across ethnicity, age, gender, and more. To take any of the tests, log in or register with the Project Implicit site.
Roadmap to Web Accessibility in Higher Education
This white paper from 3PlayMedia provides explanations and resources for accessibility in higher education.
Transformative Conversations
From the Gardner Institute
The WAC site includes many helpful resources, including a library of Inclusive Communication Resources.
EQUITY & JUSTICE
Anti-Racism Ally Pledge
From the Coalition for Racial Justice and Equity, a partnership formed by the National Diversity Council and more than 350 corporate partners
Campaign Zero
An organization and platform that offers solutions for ending police violence in America
Racial Equity and the Justice System
Resources from the American Bar Association on bias and racism in the justice system
Resources to Support the Black Community as an Ally
This guide shares best practices and resources to help individuals and organizations navigate becoming an ally
Step Up and Lead for Equity
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) presents the role of higher education in addressing the inequities that affect low-income students and students of color
RACE & ETHNICITY
Pursuing Racial Justice Together: Purdue University virtual series
Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Studies
Holocaust Remembrance Day from the National Archives
Asian-American and Pacific Islander Studies
The Misrepresented Minority: New Insights into Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Implications for Higher Education (ed. Samuel Museus, Dina Maramba, and Robert Teranishi).
Asian-American and Pacific Islander Faculty and the Bamboo Ceiling: Barriers to Leadership and Implications for Leadership Development by Fiona Lee, University of Michigan.
Black & African-American Studies and Juneteenth
The Soul of My Pedagogy: A Biologist Teaches Students to Believe They Can Be Better Than They Ever Imagined by Bryan Dewsbury, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Rhode Island, published in Scientific American.
Teaching While Black: Witnessing and Countering Disciplinary Whiteness, Racial Violence, and University Race-Management by Carmen Kynard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, published in Literacy in Composition Studies.
The Stories They Tell: Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing and Critical Media Literacy by April Baker-Bell, Raven Jones Stanbrough, and Sakeena Everett, published in Critical Media Literacy in English Education and English Education Special Edition: From Racial Violence to Racial Justice: Praxis and Implications for English (Teacher).
Juneteenth:
Library of Congress Blog: The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved
Google Arts and Culture: The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
U.S. Department of the Interior: This Juneteenth, Celebrate Freedom Day at an Interior site
Latine Studies
"Latino" or "Hispanic"? The Sociodemographic Correlates of Panethnic Label Preferences among US Latinos/Hispanics by Daniel E. Martinez and Kelsey E. Gonzalez, published in Sociological Perspectives.
Leaking Pipeline: Issues Impacting Latino/a College Student Retention by J.C. Hernandez, published in Minority Student Retention (ed. Hernandez & Lopez).
First-Generation Latino Men's Perceptions of Masculinity during their Higher Education Experience by Moises Alvarado-Garcia, a doctoral dissertation from the University of California San Diego.
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Creating Community: Native American Student Success in the University System by Shanell Sinclair, published in Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.
Entangled Pasts: Land-Grant Colleges and American Indian Dispossession by Margaret A. Nash, published by University of Cambridge Press in History of Higher Education Quarterly.
Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans by Shelly Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard, from Trauma (ed. Jerrold Brandell and Shoshana Ringel).
GENDER & SEXUALITY
Creating Safe Spaces: Opportunities, Resources, and LGBTQ Student Groups at US Colleges and Universities by Jonathan Coley and Dhruba Das, published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
Dual Invisibilities: The Intersection of First-Generation and LGBTQ Identities by Pheng Xiong, published in At the Intersection: Understanding and Supporting First-Generation Students (ed. Robert Longwell-Grice and Hope Longwell-Grice).
American Psychological Association: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month
Library of Congress: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month
Them: It's Time Black and Brown People Be Included in the Pride Flag
Purdue University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center