LibGuides: Faculty Guide for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Home

Librarian

Liz Cribbs

For More Help

Schedule an Appointment
Use this link to schedule a Zoom or in-person reference appointment with any librarian at any campus.
To use, select your campus location and then select an appointment by either availability or librarian preference.
More Library Information
For more information about each campus's library, location, etc., please click on the named library in the blue menu on the left side of the page.

MCC-Focused DEI Resources

MCC Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) builds an environment of trust and respect for diverse opinions and perspectives by promoting equity in student success, recruiting and retaining employees from diverse backgrounds, and fostering an equitable and diverse institutional infrastructure.
MCC Affinity Groups
Faculty, staff and administrators are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Affinity Groups listed, or be part of the creation of a new affinity interest.
MCC Office of Civil Rights
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for Title IX (sex discrimination and sexual harassment) and Title VII (discrimination of protected classes) compliance; OCR is charged with investigating and resolving such complaints.
Additionally, OCR is responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion programming efforts across the district.
MCC Disability Support Services
MCC supports an integrated learning experience for students with disabilities. This page provides access to each MCC campus's Disability Support Services (DSS) office that provides services for students with documented disabilities. Arrangements can be made for aids and adjustments to help ensure equitable access to MCC's programs and services.
The campus DSS office also has information about the existence and location of services, activities and facilities accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities.
MCC Diversity Courses
Current list of courses with a diversity component for the Associate in Arts degree.
MCC Counseling for Race, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (R.E.D.I.)
To encourage advocacy for change as it relates to the injustice and oppression of marginalized and underrepresented groups and/or individuals experiencing challenging situations with differences. The goal is to encourage future and deeper exploration in how we create spaces that are diverse, respectful and give a sense of belonging to all.

Getting Started: Higher Education and Diversity Links and Resources

Inclusive Teaching & Learning Resources (Brown University)
A multi-resource tool from Brown University that serves as a great beginner resource with lots of different options. Useful as a reference and starting off point.
EdSpace's Resources on Inclusive Pedagogy: a digital compendium (Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at American University)
This resource functions as a digital compendium of DEI pedagogy topics. Links lead to PDFs and online versions of book chapters and articles. Includes articles and blog posts, books, videos, and other web sources. Organized by resource type.
Pod Network's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Resources
An overview of the different formats and sources of DEI resources and where or how to find them. The resources are organized by general type but are not in any particular order within each section.
Racial Equity Tools
This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
A Beginner’s Guide to Racial Inequality (Google Doc)
Resource for constant education and proposed actions to create a more just and equal society.
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators"
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks. This checklist is a great resource for beginning the process of acknowledging invisible privilege granted to white persons and taking accountability.
Implicit Bias Tests: Project Implicit (Harvard University)
Provides short, targeted tests that can help make the user aware of hidden biases and associations.
What is Intersectionality?
A short, two-paragraph primer about intersectionality from The Center for Intersectional Justice.
Integrating Diversity into Engineering Assignments and Course Design
Natascha Trellinger Buswell's article about their experience with DEI pedagogy in STEM.

DEI and DEI Curriculum: Already-Extant Topical Syllabi and Exhibits

DEI in Curriculum: Model Principles and Practices (California Community Colleges)
A great starting point, one-stop shop from California Community Colleges for faculty and DEI curriculum that distills inclusive teaching into an easy to read and condensed format. It represents a review of the current literature on inclusive teaching, and includes a list of references and research.
Current as of 06/2022.

Black Lives Matter Syllabus - Spring 2021
Created by Melissa Harris-Perry
Charleston Syllabus
Created by the African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS)
Ferguson Syllabus
Here are some essential readings from several astute activists, journalists and writers that have inspired, angered and challenged readers everywhere this past year
'Lemonade' Class Syllabus
Created by Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks, University of Texas at San Antonio
Say Their Names: Green Library Exhibit supporting the Black Lives Matter movement
Exhibit at Stanford University Libraries

DEI and DEI Curriculum: eBooks and eAudiobooks

Africanizing the School Curriculum by Anthony Afful-Broni; Jophus Anamuah-Mensah; Kolawole Raheem; George J. Sefa Dei
ISBN: 9781975504601
Publication Date: 2020-12-29
America at War with Itself by Henry A. Giroux; Robin D. G. Kelley (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780872867338
Publication Date: 2016-08-22
The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor by Cheron H. Davis (Editor); Adriel Hilton (Editor); Ricardo Hamrick (Editor); F. Erik Brooks (Editor)
ISBN: 9781838672676
Publication Date: 2021-01-18
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein; Adam Grupper (Narrated by)
ISBN: 9781501976872
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Critical Intersections in contemporary curriculum and pedagogy by Laura M. Jewett, Freyca Calderon-Berumen, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
ISBN: 9781641134255
Publication Date: 2019
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education by Kelly M. Mack (Editor); Kate Winter (Editor); Melissa Soto (Editor)
ISBN: 9781787699533
Publication Date: 2019-01-14
Curriculum As Cultural Practice by Yatta Kanu (Editor)
ISBN: 9781442686267
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Democracies Always in the Making by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
ISBN: 9781610489300
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Dignity for all : safeguarding LGBT students by Peter DeWitt
ISBN: 9781452274300
Publication Date: 2012
Educating Students with Refugee and Asylum Seeker Experiences by Maura Sellars; John Fischetti (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9783847413455
Publication Date: 2019-12-16
Getting Culture by Regan A. R. Gurung; Loreto R. Prieto
ISBN: 9781441652027
Global Issues in Education by Greg Wiggan (Editor); Charles B. Hutchison (Editor)
ISBN: 9781607092735
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
How to be an antiracist by Ibram X Kendi.
ISBN: 9780525509295
Publication Date: 2019
How to be an antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
ISBN: 9781984832221
Publication Date: 2019
Integrative Antiracism by Edith Samuel
ISBN: 9781442676237
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Picture a Professor by Jessamyn Neuhaus (Editor)
ISBN: 9781952271687
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
Reconstructing ʻdrop-outʼ : a critical ethnography of the dynamics of Black students' disengagement from school by George J. Sefa Dei; Josephine Mazzuca; Elizabeth McIsaac
ISBN: 9781442679078
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Social Change in the Twenty-First Century by Bethany Bryan
ISBN: 9781682826089
Publication Date: 2019-06-19
Strategies for Fostering Inclusive Classrooms in Higher Education by Jaimie Hoffman (Editor); Patrick Blessinger (Editor); Mandla Makhanya (Editor)
ISBN: 9781787560604
Publication Date: 2019-02-04
Teaching Race in Perilous Times by Jason E. Cohen, Sharon D. Raynor, and Dwayne A. Mack
ISBN: 9781438482279
Publication Date: 2021
Women of color in STEM : navigating the double bind in higher education by edited by Beverly Irby, Nahed Abdelrahman, Barbara Polnick, Julia Ballenger
ISBN: 9781648023712
Publication Date: 2021

DEI and DEI Curriculum: Printed Books

Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
ISBN: 9780735224933
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula by Robert M. Diamond
ISBN: 0787910309
Publication Date: 1997-11-21
Dignity for All by Peter DeWitt
ISBN: 9781452205908
Publication Date: 2012-03-06
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Making the Most of College by Richard J. Light
ISBN: 0674004787
Publication Date: 2001-03-19
Multicultural education : issues and perspectives by James A. Banks; Cherry A. McGee Banks
ISBN: 9781118360088
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
YOU wouldn't understand : white teachers in multi-ethnic classrooms by Sarah Pearce
ISBN: 9781858563626
Publication Date: 2005-11-07

DEI and DEI Curriculum: Films and Videos

Redesigning curriculum through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens
In schools throughout the nation and the world, what stories are being told, what perspectives are represented, and what voices are included are being reconsidered. It is a period full of new learning and deep debate. As our schools seek to best support all students in their communities, many are engaged in the ongoing and critical work of auditing and revising their curricula to ensure they are both diverse and inclusive. This webinar is a panel discussion with administrators and teachers from NEASC Accredited schools who are rethinking their curriculum through this diversity, equity, and inclusion lens.
more...less...
Panelists:

Edward Carson
Dean of Multicultural Education; Faculty Advisor, Black Latinx Association
Governor’s Academy, MA, USA

Dominique Dalais
Head of Physical & Health Education
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lead at ACS International Schools
ACS Egham International School, UK

Jessica DellAquila
Social Studies Teacher
Jeremiah E. Burke High School, MA, USA

Julie Anne Levin
Director of Curriculum/Grants; Diversity Coordinator
Easthampton Public Schools, MA, USA
OCTC: Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Strategies for Teaching
more...less...
Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning
Equity and Diversity in Higher Education
This webinar will focus on the intersection of equity, diversity and social justice in higher education and their relationship to creating greater access to a college education for disadvantaged populations. Webinar participants will learn about promising practices for creating a more equitable and diverse campus climate that increases student success.
more...less...
Speaker

Taffye Benson Clayton is a nationally known executive administrator and diversity and inclusion leader in higher education. Clayton is the inaugural vice president and associate provost for inclusion and diversity at Auburn University.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Webinar
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) issues have been on the higher education agenda for many years, but recent events have brought the issue into sharper focus. Leading EDI efforts on university campuses is vital work. Join this expert panel to explore how higher education institutions around the world are providing an inclusive environment for all people, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, or disability.
more...less...
Moderator:
Professor Audrey Falk, Country Director, USA, Northeast Region for the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, Professor at Merrimack College in Massachusetts

Panellists:
Amanda G Strong, Director ‐ Asset Management, MITIMCo
Professor Mandla Stanley Makhanya, Principal & Vice-Chancellor at University of South Africa (2011-2020)
Dr. Stephanie Mckendry, Head Of Access, Equality & Inclusion - Student Experience, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Dr. Madasu Bhaskara Rao, Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at the ICFAI Business School (IBS)
Understanding Implicit Bias In Higher Education
Talk Given By Dr. Alex Madva (Cal State East Bay) on May 6, 2014. The video is broken into two parts; a six-minute introduction and a seventy-eight minute lecture and discussion. Both parts are accessible through the link.

DEI and and DEI Curriculum: Google Scholar and Recent News Searches

Next Steps: Kansas City Community Organizations and Outreach

Asian American Chamber of Commerce Kansas City
Formed in 1998 as a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote business and cultural relationships among members of the Chamber, local and national corporations, and the general public.
Greater Kansas City Hispanic Collaborative
Provides comprehensive assistance to the growth, evolution and professional advancement of Hispanics and other minorities in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area by collaborating with mutual assistance associations/organizations. Focuses primarily on educational and charitable endeavors.
ISGKC: Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City
Mission/Vision of ISGKC is to Live faith as a congregation, inspired by the teachings of the Quran and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as individuals and as a collective body, and to be the anchor of a model community of practicing Muslims of diverse backgrounds, democratically governed, efficiently served, and interacting with neighbors in an Islamic exemplary fashion.
Kansas City ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Office
Ensures that all service, activities and programs offered by the City of Kansas City are accessible to all people, including those with disabilities.
Kansas City Center for Inclusion
Mission is to provide safe, inclusive LGBTQIA+ community spaces where people can come for education, resources, and activities, as well as support a more cohesive LGBTQIA+ community in the greater Kansas City area.
Kansas City Indian Center
Mission is to encourage social, educational, and economic advancement of the American Indian community by promoting traditional and cultural values.
LGBTQ+ Initiatives in KCMO
List of recent legislative initiatives, KC Employee Resource Group, and KCMO Resources for LGBTQ+ Individuals and Allies.
Racial Equity - Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness
Provides a list of racial equity resources.
Showing Up for Racial Justice Kansas City
A local network organizing white people for racial justice in accountability to People of Color (POC). Through Personal Support, Political Education, and Solidarity Action, SURJ KC moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.
Urban League of Greater Kansas City
Mission is to enable African Americans and other disadvantaged persons to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.