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.
Outside Professional Development Opportunities
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
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