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What are Extension's power structures?

mljung — 2023-10-30 21:22:42 UTC

How do these promote and/or inhibit change?

How does the university/academic structure play a role?

What are white supremacy tendencies in Extension?

mljung — 2023-10-30 21:23:56 UTC

What are strategies to counteract these?

How does "urgency" as a characteristic of white supremacy show up in Extension? How can we interrupt and shift it? (Monica)

"Ally-ship"

mccrank — 2023-11-06 20:19:08 UTC

Explore all aspects of being an ally or having allies and how we expand ally-ship... really widely! Elizabeth

What are some contexts and strategies we as Extension/University representation can learn from and about, when communicating EDI stuff with stakeholders in local community?

gliang6_ — 2023-11-06 20:20:12 UTC

How do we take the Chancellor's challenge to promote the UW Madison in our communities?

Internal capacity building, what skills and language do we need to bring UW priorities around EDI into community work while being ready for resistance to this? joy

2023-11-06 20:20:22 UTC

Learning by example

2023-11-06 20:20:37 UTC

Positive examples from other organizations: real changes that we can learn from and perhaps adapt into our organization

Residency /citizenship for international colleagues

2023-11-06 20:21:34 UTC

UW Madison policy doesn't "allow" the university to sponsor non-tenure track staff for permanent residency /citizenship when they need this. I have lost at least two colleagues because they were born in another country and needed to get jobs elsewhere (at other Universities) where they could be sponsored.

Cultural humility (vs. cultural competence)

2023-11-06 20:22:29 UTC

2023-11-06 20:23:25 UTC

Awareness building of other's experiences. This was some of the most helpful elements of the first community of practice sessions - learning about other's lived experiences.

How to turn conflicts into learning oppourtunities

gliang6_ — 2023-11-06 20:23:25 UTC

We might have all been in situations where differences of identities or opinions around DEI turned into conflicts. How do we as connectors and educators maneuver in these conflicts without losing individual authenticity?

Getting specific about what words mean...

2023-11-06 20:30:57 UTC

Examine separately the words 'diversity' 'equity' 'inclusion' 'justice' and clarify which little bit of each giant topic we are trying to make changes within

And awareness-building of one's own experiences

2023-11-07 16:28:33 UTC

How did I come to hold the beliefs and opinions that I do?

Grappling with our history

kwaldman4 — 2023-11-10 18:07:40 UTC

At the All Colleague Conference, Dominic referenced "Agricultural Extension and the Campaign to Assimilate the Native Americans of Wisconsin, 1914—1932" (available on JSTOR). The Center for Campus History also presented at the conference on their transition from the Sifting & Reckoning project/exhibit to a permanent center. Session participants pondered how the Center could support Extension in a similar process of grappling with our history. Some Extension units seem to be doing this work individually. Perhaps exploring a coordinated way for Extension to pursue this would be a good topic of discussion for this group. (Kim)

How do we work effectively with Indigenous audiences whose lands we occupy? What can we learn from each other about effective approaches, strategies, initial efforts at relationship building, hopefully leading to positive partnerships? (Amy)

2023-12-04 20:31:19 UTC

Gaza

mljung — 2024-01-31 16:34:00 UTC

Learn more and discuss world events like Gaza. Embedded in history of course.