Leading with racial equity is vital for world. Here are several resources to assist you to incorporate work and resources into your classes.

Classroom Activities

Example: Canvas Assignments from Engineering 101 - Whatcom Community College

Week 01 - Lecture Homework 01 - Communication tool ~ How to handle microaggressions

The purpose of this assignment is to have a communication tool for all of us to use when dealing with microaggressions.

One of the most important skills that engineers can learn is to properly communicate with their team, employer, customer, and community. In this class, we will be communicating via Zoom, email, Canvas discussions, reading reflections, homework, lab work, and possibly texts or phone calls. We will be communicating with each other, peer mentors, Whatcom staff, and community members. As we expand our social and professional lives, it is important to realize that we might not always say the right thing to every person that we meet. We might offend someone or hear someone say something offensive to another and we or they might not realize it. And that's okay. But what isn't okay is to not to try to inform all present parties that something may have offended one or all within earshot. The tool that we will be employing in this class is a technique called R.A.V.E.N which deals with microaggressions.

"Psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines microaggressions as "brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership". The persons making the comments may be otherwise well-intentioned and unaware of the potential impact of their words." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression )

We are in this class to learn and what better way to learn that to empower ourselves to make the world a better place for all.

For this assignment, please read the following article. Next week we will read another scholarly article that deals with microaggressions at colleges and universities. By having the R.A.V.E.N tool, we will be able to not only discuss this article but to learn from one another.

https://diverseeducation.com/article/176397/

After reading the article, share one aspect of the article that connected with you or that you thought was interesting.

Consider sharing your thoughts on this article and on the role of engineers in creating a more just society. Please be respectful of others when posting and review the Netiquette guidelines below.

The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule for elaboration (from http://www.albion.com/ )

• Introduction

• Rule 1: Remember the Human

• Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

• Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace

• Rule 4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth

• Rule 5: Make yourself look good online

• Rule 6: Share expert knowledge

• Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control

• Rule 8: Respect other people's privacy

• Rule 9: Don't abuse your power

• Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes