Our Commitment to DEIJ
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities will provide an exemplary undergraduate advisor training program that helps to support and enhance undergraduate academic advising on the Twin Cities campus and is rooted in a deep commitment to increasing our capacity to integrate equity and diversity lenses into our work with students.
This page provides basic resource ideas to supplement your personal and professional development in this area. We welcome further feedback and suggestions via this form.
Check out UMN projects and sites
- Gopher Equity Project
- UMN Racial Justice Resources
- Where it Starts
- A Campus Divided
- Task Force on Building Names and Institutional History
- Office of the President: DEI Initiatives
- Undergraduate Diversity, Community, and Belonging
- Accessible U
- Mapping Prejudice
- SPAR Animated Video Series
- Commemorating Juneteenth
- Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- Campus Climate
- First Gen Proud
- Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
Participate in conversation
Join a campus event or training
- OED: Equity & Diversity Certificate Program
- OED: Staff & Faculty Workshops
- Diversity Data Deep Dive
- ISSS: Intercultural Workshop Series
- MCSE: Power & Privilege Series
- The Women’s Center Workshops
- Online Module: The Confidence Gap
- First Generation Institute
- Apply for the Racial Justice Training Program
- Apply for the Coaching Skills Training Program
View a webinar
- Online racial equity workshops
- UMTC advising initiatives trainings
- NASPA webinar library
- QueerX
- What does it mean to identify as Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC)?
- Effectively Supporting Students with Disabilities
- Association on Higher Education and Disability Webinars
- Responding to Racial Bias and Microaggressions in the Online Environment
- Equity-Minded Student Services in the Online Environment
- Race-Class Academy
- Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Webinar Series:
Connect to a website or organization
Subscribe to a newsletter
Understand key words
Set a goal
- Goal Setting Guide and a Goal Setting Worksheet
- Individual or Performance Review goal setting examples from UCDavis
- Consider the characteristics for a multiculturally competent student affairs practitioner: What are your points of strength and what are your areas for growth? Set a goal.
Practice care
- Rest is Resistance
- The Psychology of Radical Healing Collective
- BIPOC Mental Health Collective
- Human Rights Resilience Project Toolkit
- Digital Self-Care Toolkit
- Self-care isn't enough. We need community care to thrive.
- Anti-Racism: Dismantling Your Practice
- Healing Justice for Equity
- Mindfulness for Racial Injustice