Diversity & Inclusion

The Value of Diversity

Song: Colors of the Wind

• Why is diversity a good thing?

• • Reaping The Benefits Of Diversity For Modern Business Innovation

  • Product Names Lost in Translation

    • Honda

• 100 People World Portrait

• • video

• American Culture Metaphor

• Commonalities

• Surgeon

• Project Implicit

• LGBTQIA

• • How common is intersex?

Building cultural knowledge

• Travel

  • "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

    • Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869), Vol. II, Conclusion.

  • Backpack Europe

    • City Price Guide

  • Countries I've been to: Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Saint Martin (French part), Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

• Travel locally

  • Yelp - find cultural sites and restaurants

  • Southwest Florida Holocaust Museum

• Web sites that expose you to other perspectives

  • Al Jazeera

• Research / Ask questions of people

  • "What makes you proud to be ____________?"

  • "What do you think are the biggest misconceptions about being ________?"

    • fill in the blank with gender, skin color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, etc.

  • Quora

  • Kiva

• Books / Good Reads

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  • Diversity Book Lists

• Movies / Shows

Diversity & Inclusion in Computer Science

Gender

• Ada Lovelace

  • video

  • day

• Tips for women working in tech

• FGCU Student Clubs

  • Society of Women Engineers

• Prof. V's advice to men

  • Do not make gender related jokes at work. Keep the humor wholesome.

  • Do not flirt at work. Eliminate coworkers from your dating pool, there are still billions of other people.

  • No touching.

LGBTQIA

• Alan Turing

  • The Imitation Game movie

  • What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell you about Turing’s greatest triumph

• What Tim Cook says coming out cost him—and why he still has ‘no regrets’

Race

• FGCU Student Clubs

  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

  • National Society of Black Engineers

• Coding While Black: Black Tech Professionals Share Their Experiences

• /dev/color - empowering Black software engineers to help one another grow into industry leaders

Education

• Resources for anyone interested in teaching

  • Guide to inclusive computer science education

  • Code.org's Approach to Diversity and Equity in Computer Science

FGCU Resources

• Diversity & Inclusion Program

• Safe Zone

• Rainbow Eagles CAPS support group

Additional Resources

• For parents

  • How to talk about race with your kids

• Videos

  • TED Talks on Inclusion and Diversity

  • Choose Empathy Over Fear

A quote from Albert Einstein: “We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from others… a kind of optical delusion… this delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. A human being is a part of the whole universe. We shall require a substantial new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”