EIC Events
All in-person College events are cancelled until further notice. For more information about how the College is prioritizing the health and safety of students and employees, please visit the COVID-19 Information page.
Diversity Awareness Calendar - A list of the widely recognized awareness months and day(s) for a specific group, culture or cause intended to help raise awareness, promote understanding, and celebrate achievements.
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events at this time.
Outside Professional Development Opportunities
Fall 2021 North Carolina Student Success Center Workshops - August-December. The NC Student Success Center is happy to announce its excellent Fall 2021 line-up of professional development workshops. These virtual workshops are available for free to all faculty and staff at all 58 NC community colleges. Presenters from a variety of our colleges, along with national experts and representatives from the College Foundation of North Carolina, will be featured.
For a downloadable PDF list of workshop titles and descriptions, as well as registration links, click here.
Past Events & Development
2021
January
February
- Black History Month Workshop - Hannah Scott, Dr. Beverly Brown, presenters
- Women's History Month Discussion
April
- Passion versus Paycheck Webinar - Man2Man - Dr. Dale Rader, presenter; George Clark, facilitator
- The Importance of Networking Webinar - Man2Man - Gregory Cain, presenter
- From Maleness to Manhood Webinar - Man2Man - Skip McCall, presenter
- Holistic Advising: Aligning Students' Academic and Life Goals Workshop
May
- Intersectionality Training
- Safe Zone Training 101
2020
January
- Striving towards Cultural Competency through Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- MLK Jr. Celebration
February
- Toni Morrison Speaker Series
- Cultural Competency faculty & staff discussion group
- The Colorful Collage: A Celebration of African-American Literature and Music
March
- Let’s Talk: Microaggressions & Unconscious Bias faculty & staff roundtable
August
2019
March
- Doris Betts Literary Festival featuring North Carolina Poet Laureate Jackie Shelton Green
- Inclusive Advising professional development
May
- Safe Zone Project
- Women in Higher Education Conference at NC A&T
August
- Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) Panel Discussion
- Campus-Wide Read, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Cultural Competency presentation to Student Ambassadors
September
- NCCCS Equity Report emailed and reviewed by campus (Review of gender and race/ethnicity)
- Community Resource Fair- Main Campus Circle
October
- NCCCS Conference presentation, "Developing Diversity that Is Embedded into the Fabric of the College
- "Let’s Talk" Mentoring & Diversity & Inclusion faculty & staff roundtable
- EIC representatives attend “Deficit Minded to Equity Minded,” a NCCCS Equity Session, to better support underserved students
2018
- Unconscious Bias professional development
- EIC representatives attend Black Minds Matter webinar series
- Courageous Conversations, Communicating with the LGBTQ Community, facilitated by student SAFE Club members
January
- Equality or Equity? professional development
- Inclusion professional development
- MLK Jr. Celebration
February
- African American Literature Reading
March
- Inclusive Advising professional development
- Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey
- Equity, Part II professional development
- Unconscious Bias professional development
- Law Enforcement Open Forum
May
- I Am Not Your Negro film screening and Lunch & Learn
August
- Diversity, equity and inclusion slides/video included in new student orientation and new faculty/staff orientation
LGBTQIA+ workshop- SAFE Zone
Equity and Inclusion presentation with Student Government Association
2017
- Bimonthly educational e-mail "blasts" sent by EIC
January
- MLK Jr. Celebration
August
- Campus-Wide Read, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, followed by book club discussions
October
- Safe Zone workshop, facilitated by Kayla Lisenby
