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.

Outside Professional Development Opportunities

Holistic Advising: Aligning Students’ Academic and Life Goals
Facilitator/Presenter: Dr. Cynthia Pascal, Associate Vice President of Student Support at Northern Virginia Community College

Apr. 7, 2021 at 2-4:00 PM ET. A facilitated dialog, free and open to all, on the tension between students’ academic goals and their stated vocational/career/professional/nonacademic goals, with a specific focus on racial equity and equity for low-income students. After registering via the above link, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Past Events & Development

2021

January

• Virtual MLK Jr. Celebration, featuring guest speaker Bryan Duncan, Executive Director of I-CARE.

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

• Virtual Local Women in Leadership Panel Discussion hosted by Mitchell Community College Libraries

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