Chat13:19:37 . 13:19:50 [Captioner standing by] 13:30:31 [Captions provided by VZP Digital] . 13:30:42 >> TRACY WEBER: Welcome everyone. 13:30:45 We're going to get started in just a minute. 13:31:40 part three of Anti-Racism in Academia: A Learning Journey - Learn this is the kick-off of our month of learning. My name is Tracy Weber and I'm one of the coordinators 13:31:40 for part three of this learning journey and we are just thrilled that you all able to join us today. I'm joined by many members of the ARiA team. I want 13:32:04 Tina who is going to be presenting today and we any questions. Feel free to use the chat. We will be recording this meeting for other who is will watch it later. I also want 13:32:19 helped us, continual support overall and helping today with this platform. Thank you, Heather What is ARiA? We will take a couple of minutes 13:32:19 to review for those joining us for the first time in part three. 13:32:22 ARiA formed out of a desire to go beyond simply 13:32:25 issuing a statement about racism and to put actions to 13:32:28 our words. And this was definitely a 13:32:31 grassroots effort by a number 13:32:35 of individuals from different constituent groups that thought if we 13:32:38 joined together, then we could really create 13:32:41 something much more powerful and broader impact. 13:32:44 It was also based on some success in 13:32:49 some of the constituent groups with a water 13:32:52 cooler of breakout session format. That was something we thought would 13:32:55 work well in this context. It really came together very 13:32:58 quickly and we definitely been in a 13:33:02 do-learn-do mode and have made some iterations along the 13:33:06 way. But learned to prioritize 13:33:09 action and community driven continual 13:33:12 improvement this whole time. The 13:33:15 goal was to create safe spaces to explore, share and learn. 13:33:19 What makes this so special I think is that ability to 13:33:22 do that across all different institutions, all over the country and 13:33:25 really expand our networks beyond our own institutions. 13:33:28 And that idea of a safe space and having 13:33:33 some of these conversations that are probably not 13:33:36 necessarily -- with colleagues that are probably not necessarily the ones 13:33:40 you work with. We home 13:33:43 to promote professional growth 13:33:47 and actually empower participants 13:33:50 to enact changes within their own institutions and 13:33:53 communities to overall create a 13:33:56 more inclusive environment. 13:34:06 Started small and we have grown and added 13:34:09 helpers and leaders along the way with 13:34:13 this idea we are going to grow and learn and lead and 13:34:16 spread that across our 13:34:20 higher ed communities. We hope 13:34:24 to share the what, how 13:34:26 and why framework of ARiA. We hope to 13:34:30 help everyone grow through safe and transparent discussions that really 13:34:33 help us learn about our own biases and beliefs 13:34:36 about race and explore those in safe 13:34:39 communities. And we also hope that we 13:34:42 empower many across our communities to lead from where they 13:34:46 are, regardless of their role, their scope of influence 13:34:49 or their title to really take what they learned and what they 13:34:52 experienced and share it at a 13:34:59 much broader level. So, a little map of where we are and where we have 13:35:02 been. So, even though today is a kick-off, 13:35:05 work has already started last 13:35:08 month. And the facilitator orientation. 13:35:11 So, later today we will show how to sign up for these breakout 13:35:14 sessions. But leading up to that, we have spent time with all 13:35:18 of the facilitators going through the 13:36:04 extensive training on that. Today we are kicking off the month and then we will be asking you all sessions to have an evolution of these water cooler conversations where 13:36:04 you can choose a topic and a group and time and date that works for you and have these discussions. With that, I will hand it over to Tina 13:36:04 to take it from here. 13:36:05 >> TINA PAPPAS: Hi everyone. 13:36:09 October the theme of the month was reaching out, our activities 13:36:12 surrounded that topic. 13:36:16 By Reach Out, we meant 13:36:19 making an intentional effort to proactively and respectfully 13:36:22 engage in meaningful dialogue, with people different from you is the 13:36:25 key. And we 13:36:25 key. And we 13:36:28 discussed those 13:36:28 discussed those 13:36:32 -- that concept in our small group. To give you an example of 13:36:32 -- that concept in our small group. To give you an example of 13:36:35 what a session might look like and they vary 13:36:35 what a session might look like and they vary 13:37:20 based on the lens and experience the facilitator brings, as well as the group dynamic for the people that sign up for the particular session. For example, in August, 13:37:20 some of the Reach Out sessions included opportunities for people to discuss and explore their personal circumstances in the 13:37:20 context of anti-racism work in the organizations and in their community. For example, there were conversations about growing up in homogenous environments 13:37:20 with little exposure to diversity. Discussions about difficulty of bringing anti-racism type of work or beliefs into the work place and even 13:37:22 examples where some groups -- some 13:37:25 participants in these groups talked about challenges in speaking with 13:37:28 people who don't believe in anti-racism work or have 13:37:32 different views on if racism is a problem. So, that is 13:37:35 just sort of an example of the depth of conversations some of these 13:37:38 sessions with get into. If you are willing to take it there 13:37:41 when you participate. What you are willing to share and what you're 13:37:44 willing to talk about and what you're willing to ask 13:37:47 is really up to you to bring your whole self there 13:37:51 and engage as deeply as you would like to engage. 13:37:54 On the topic of Listen, which we defined 13:37:57 as making an intention effort to give attention to someone with the 13:38:00 goal of understanding what is being 13:38:03 shared and formulating meaning from sound. Really 13:38:07 actively listening. That was the topic of September, which we just 13:38:11 wrapped up a few days ago. And some 13:38:15 examples of the session experiences 13:38:19 there were in one case 13:38:22 attendees were asked to describe the various stages their institutions were 13:38:25 this their diversity efforts. And what 13:38:28 we learned anecdotally was institutions prang from having 13:38:31 just recently issued statements -- 13:38:35 range from having just issued statements of 13:38:39 solidarity to institutions doing extensive work for some 13:38:42 time and changing policies and practices and 13:38:47 attitudes. It showed there's a spectrum 13:38:50 of how things are being handled or discussed 13:38:53 across institutions from coast to coast. Another 13:38:57 example in September there were sessions that included watching and 13:39:00 reacting to spoken poetry as a way to exercise 13:39:03 listening skills. And that was something that 13:39:07 both the facilitators felt were really 13:39:10 empowered to share and attendees in those sessions were really 13:39:14 appreciative of going through that experience because it was a different 13:39:17 way of practicing something that we do every day, but not 13:39:20 necessarily with as full intention as we would hope. And 13:39:23 so, in talking about the previous months of August and 13:39:28 September, it brings us to Learn in October. And 13:39:31 along the way, as we started this initiative, 13:39:35 we have seen the demand grow in 13:39:39 unanticipated ways and one of the things that we've 13:39:42 done is build on the program and expand it as much as we 13:39:45 can. So, in August when we started, we had nine 13:39:48 facilitators. They held 11 sessions. We had 13:39:51 roughly 75 participants. And by the time 13:39:55 we were preparing for September, we realized the demand, the number of 13:39:59 people who wanted to get into a session and couldn't because 13:40:02 they were closed, we said okay. We have to work a little bit 13:40:05 harder. So, we had more facilitators get involved. We had 13:40:08 more sessions. We were able to have more participants involved and still 13:40:11 we had a wait list of 30, 40, 50 people 13:40:14 in September. So, again, we worked very hard and 13:40:17 now we have 26 facilitators for Learn in 13:40:21 October. We will be holding 29 sessions and that is 13:40:24 up to a potential 139 or 140 13:40:28 seats that people have the opportunity to participate. 13:40:31 So, we are steadily growing and we expect to grow even a little bit 13:40:34 for in November and December when we talk about Act 13:40:39 . So, let's talk a little bit about October. This month 13:40:42 we are going to focus on the idea of learning. So, there's a definition in 13:40:45 front of you of what learning is. It is gain or 13:40:50 acquiring knowledge of or skill in something by study, 13:40:53 experience or being taught. And so, learn is a very big topic. 13:40:55 You could learn a number of things. 13:40:58 You learn consciously and unconsciously. We decided if 13:41:01 th sake of ARiA, we needed to narrow that scope 13:41:04 so we could have meaningful 13:41:07 discussions about particular areas of race-related conversations and racism. 13:41:10 So, this month we took the learn topic 13:41:14 and broke it into four themes. Those themes are 13:41:17 systemic racism, intersectionality, alleyship 13:41:20 and implicit 13:41:24 bias. We describe what we mean by those things 13:41:27 and help you understand which one you want to 13:41:32 engage in. So, 13:41:37 systemic racism is defined. And 13:41:40 not everyone may agree with some of these 13:41:45 definitions. But the point is to have a space where we can safely 13:41:49 talk about these things, question the notion of these statements 13:41:52 and these topics. Explore how 13:41:55 we feel about some of these ideas and 13:41:58 our roles in them. Similarly with 13:42:03 intersectionality and allyship, those are pertinent 13:42:06 topics when you talk about anti-racism or issues of racism. 13:42:10 So, we have 13:42:14 sessions that will deep dive on 13:42:18 allyship and the difference between 13:42:22 formative allyship 13:42:28 which is different from unseen a 13:42:30 highship. We will talk about intersectionality this month. 13:42:34 How issues or characteristics or 13:42:37 traits such as gender, 13:42:40 sexual orientation and race can compound and cause a different 13:42:44 host of experiences for 13:42:47 someone. And we will talk about implicit bias 13:42:50 which has been talked about very often and we 13:42:55 couldn't proceed without including that, conversations about 13:42:58 microaggressions and what sorts of things are visible 13:43:01 and less visible in the work space. So, when you go 13:43:04 to participate, if you will participating this month, 13:43:07 you will have an option to choose a time and date like 13:43:10 Tracy said, that works for you to have a 13:43:14 75-90 minute conversation but you will be choosing one of these four 13:43:18 themes that you're going to want to deep dive into. 13:43:20 Tracy, we can advance to the next one. Thank 13:43:23 you. So, why is it important to 13:43:26 learn? Why did we include this as part of the 13:43:30 framework? It is very simple. What learning allows 13:43:33 us to do is it allows us 13:43:36 to take on and understand perspectives different than our 13:43:39 own standard ones that are shaped by our own 13:43:42 lives. When you learn about someone else's experiences or 13:43:45 you learn about issues or you learn about things that you didn't 13:43:49 previously know or weren't aware of, they become part of the way 13:43:52 you think about things. They expand the way that you think about 13:43:56 things. They allow you to take on multiple perspectives different than 13:43:59 your own. And learning about various aspects 13:44:02 of racism and anti-racism also 13:44:05 really, in our opinion, helps to build the confidence that is 13:44:08 really necessary to engage in these conversations 13:44:12 at scale. If you can say with 13:44:15 more certainty that you understand the history of racism or 13:44:19 you understand what allyship is so you can recognize 13:44:22 when it is not necessarily being done in a 13:44:25 way that is the impact that was 13:44:29 intended, being able to stand up in those conversations, to 13:44:32 raise those conversations, to guide 13:44:35 and direct and facilitate those conversations means you really have to 13:44:38 know what you are talking about. So, learning is important. It is an 13:44:41 important experience when it comes 13:44:45 to discussions around racism. And finally, 13:44:49 immersing ourselves in race-related education is 13:44:52 going to be able to widen the 13:44:56 ideation phases. Institutions are going through how are they going to 13:44:59 address this. How are they going to address their 13:45:02 communities? What are they going to do about 13:45:05 identifying, recognizing, assessing 13:45:08 their state in so far as it relates to racism. And having 13:45:12 more people educated and learned about 13:45:15 these different variations and ways that racism can play 13:45:19 out or what leads to systemic racism, that's 13:45:22 going to mean a lot more multi-faceted 13:45:26 thoughts around a table helping to 13:45:29 create strategies and tactics for how to lead organizations 13:45:32 in various directions. Tracy, we can 13:45:36 advance. Thank you. So, that's a little bit about 13:45:38 Learn. The main take-away there is that learn 13:45:49 choose a theme they are most interested in and those themes will 13:45:49 occur on different dates and 13:45:53 times. Sessions are open for registration starting today during 13:45:56 this webinar. The cost of this program, of the work that we're 13:45:59 doing is completely free. It's open to 13:46:03 anybody that works in academia, the 13:46:07 higher education space. Most of these sessions -- 13:46:10 I should say all are 75-90 minutes long 13:46:14 and takes place between October 13:46:16 8th-29. These sessions do have limited 13:46:19 availability. So, first and foremost, one session per person 13:46:23 for the month. So, even if you're really excited 13:46:26 to learn about all four of the topics, unfortunately, we are trying to spread 13:46:29 the love. So, it is limited to one person 13:46:32 per session. And we are keeping the session small because we 13:46:35 want to time to be able to be spent on covering all of the conversation 13:46:38 and allowing everyone to 13:46:42 speak comfortably without being 13:46:44 rushed. Five 13:46:49 person capacity with one facilitator. There will be 26 sessions and 13:46:52 typically, in August and in September, we saw 13:46:55 tickets sell out within 30 hours. Now, there's a wait list. 13:46:58 You could put your name there when we have last-minute cancellations, we 13:47:01 will reach out to the wait list and offer up 13:47:04 seats. First come, first serve. But there are not often 13:47:07 cancellations. So, being on the wait list will not guarantee you will 13:47:11 ultimately get into a session if they do close out. In addition to 13:47:14 the month of October being about breakout 13:47:18 sessions, we do have an 13:47:21 encore event. Just as EDUCAUSE has 13:47:24 partnered with us, NerComp, another association is 13:47:28 partnering with us to have 13:47:33 sessions about the same top authenticate we are covering, but in a 13:47:36 separate format. So, in the month of October, they will pull together 13:47:39 a panel of some of the 13:47:44 ARiA facilitators and they will discuss these themes, what they are, 13:47:47 how they are important, how we can practice addressing some of these 13:47:50 things and also talk about their experiences 13:47:54 as facilitators and particularly to explain 13:47:58 how important these conversations are. Why ARiA is so 13:48:00 popular. What about the program is so useful, 13:48:03 which is really bringing people together in these small intimate 13:48:06 conversations to be able to explore these topics. 13:48:09 So, if you want more information about that, we have a 13:48:13 website. We have a page in particular for the 13:48:16 program schedule. Tracy will be able to show us what that 13:48:20 looks like just for your familiarity. 13:48:26 We will let it load 13:48:30 right here. If you go to the 13:48:33 the web page, you could 13:48:36 click on top program schedule and that will bring 13:48:40 you the entire program for October session. There's a join 13:48:43 button that will link you to the registration 13:48:46 system for breakout session for October. If 13:48:49 you are interested in the collaboration with NerComp, that panel 13:48:52 also is free and open to anyone who works in 13:48:57 higher ed. Membership to NerComp is not required. 13:49:00 You can also 13:49:04 register from this program page. With that, I think we are kind of done and 13:49:07 I think we will just take questions if there are 13:49:10 any. I think there's been activity in the chat that I haven't been closely 13:49:20 monitoring. Just some information we are giving 13:49:28 out to everyone. >> TRACY WEBER: And some greetings 13:49:31 from all over the country. >> TINA PAPPAS: Absolutely. All the 13:49:36 different time zones. Philadelphia is in the house. 13:49:40 San Diego. It is nice to have everyone tuning in. 13:49:46 So, it seems like we have no questions. 13:50:05 We will give it another minute. 13:50:08 Do you have a plan for how long the website will be available? 13:50:11 The ARiA website, Amy? 13:50:15 In perpetuity hopefully. Until UGA 13:50:18 kicks us off their 13:50:20 servers I think. [Laughter] 13:50:23 >> I'm thinking of adding it to a resource list but I didn't want 13:50:26 to do that if it was a short-term site. So, I 13:50:29 will go ahead and add. >> TINA PAPPAS: ARiA for life, 13:50:32 Amy. ARiA for life. [Laughter] 13:50:36 >> Even if we do manage to move the 13:50:39 site, we would direct that URL to the new site location for 13:50:42 an extended period of time. 13:50:44 >> TINA PAPPAS: So, we have ten 13:50:48 minutes left and I'm happy to give everybody back their time. 13:50:51 We might have people on the call who have been facilitators 13:50:54 or attendees. So, if you would like to spend a minute to 13:50:58 talk about your experience or thoughts about ARiA, we invite you to do that 13:51:01 as well if you would like. 13:51:07 Is the NerComp something totally 13:51:10 different? NerComp like EDUCAUSE is an 13:51:13 association for the northeast region. And 13:51:16 they have their own programming like EDUCAUSE has its own programming. 13:51:20 But both associations have been kind enough to work with us. 13:51:23 While the ARiA program is 13:51:26 stand-alone and it is these five topics spaced out over 13:51:29 months, what we are doing and very thankful to be able 13:51:32 to do is working with associations like EDUCAUSE 13:51:36 and NerComp to have encore events. We 13:51:39 thought besides the breakout sessions, what 13:51:42 other ways could we 13:51:45 provide sessions around learn and NerComp said 13:51:48 we would love to do a collaboration with you. 13:51:53 So, they will hold a one and a half hour panel. 13:51:56 It will be a panel. The panelist will have 13:51:59 an intimate and candid conversation. And like this 13:52:02 webinar, there will be a 13:52:05 number of people in 13:52:14 attendance. Whereas a breakout session 13:52:17 is small group, sort of coffee shop conversation in the breakout session. 13:52:28 Again, we just want to thank NerComp 13:52:31 and EDUCAUSE both for working with us here. We mean for 13:52:34 this to be an open source 13:52:37 resource. We are volunteers ourselves. We do this 13:52:40 in the free time that we create to do it and to have both 13:52:44 associations stand behind us and to do really 13:52:47 monumental things like using 13:52:50 their infrastructure and their 13:52:55 resources to allow us to do this and 13:52:58 facilitate us doing some of these programming and making it free 13:53:01 to both members and non-members is special and incredible. 13:53:04 We really just want to thank both 13:53:08 NerComp and EDUCAUSE for standing behind us in our 13:53:11 cause and our work. 13:53:15 Thank you for sharing, Karen. Thank you, Adam. 13:53:19 We wouldn't be successful if it 13:53:22 weren't for people interested in this and volunteering as facilitators 13:53:25 and taking the time to attend. So, we are successful 13:53:28 for our own work, but also 13:53:31 for the participation of everyone else. 13:53:43 Thanks, Brian. Tim says are there plans to add 13:53:47 books relateded to these topics to the 13:53:53 resources tab, 13:53:56 that has resources? That is 13:53:59 my intention. If you want to shoot me an email with 13:54:02 a starting point, I will get those listed on there 13:54:06 ASAP. I have some in my head. But did I list 13:54:10 them all. Did I list too 13:54:13 many? Anything you can share. Amy great 13:54:16 questions. You are not making this easy for 13:54:19 us. Hundred percent. We have very large visions and goals 13:54:22 for 2021 and beyond. We are thinking about what this 13:54:26 might look like as a cohort experience to help build trust over 13:54:29 time. We would like to replicate the same thing 13:54:32 where we will centrally across the country will 13:54:35 host these month to month events. But we are also working 13:54:38 on packaging the material and getting some experts in to help with 13:54:42 the training so that we can train people from institutions and 13:54:45 then they can bring this package, this framework back 13:54:48 to their institution and implement it locally. So, we are working on 13:54:52 a number of things. Again, EDUCAUSE and NerComp are 13:54:54 both there at the table helping us think through how we 13:54:58 might do this. Right now it is six people, figuring 13:55:01 things out. One day, one week at a time. So, we are going 13:55:04 to need a little bit more infrastructure support and 13:55:07 logistic support to scale this. But that is the goal and we are 13:55:10 actively working on it. 13:55:17 You can use these materials. If it is on our website, it is 13:55:20 definitely something that you can use 13:55:23 for sure. If you're talking about materials that 13:55:26 facilitators are using, right now those materials are really for 13:55:30 facilitators only. I know that some 13:55:33 facilitators are PDF and shared the materials after 13:55:37 the session. With 13:55:44 attribution it would -- I would just advocate to use 13:55:47 them carefully with the proper 13:55:50 context and conversation. 13:55:53 Francesca has a book recommendation. 13:55:55 Hopefully my colleagues will drop that down. 13:55:58 Thank you, Dr. Douglas. If we are interested in facilitating in the 13:56:01 future and if you need more people, please let us 13:56:05 know how to apply. Actually, 13:56:08 we are already working on the programming for November and December 13:56:11 and we will start working right after that on January's programming. We are 13:56:14 stretching our timeline out because the demand is high and it is taking us 13:56:19 more time to do the work. There may be a call for 13:56:22 facilitators for Act and possibly for Persist. 13:56:26 We will use the same mailing list to distribute that information 13:56:29 and put that call to participation out and we will have information on 13:56:33 how to apply or to request to be a facilitator. 13:56:36 Amy, however you heard about this is the same way you should see that 13:56:39 message come through as well. 13:56:43 Hi Melody. Thank you, Tim. 13:56:55 Amy is sharing a insightful 13:56:58 comment. From a session recording sharing what 13:57:01 is learned is external what is shared is personal. Those are great words 13:57:04 to live by. 13:57:08 Absolutely. Adam shared a great list 13:57:11 of resources including books. Hopefully we will have this chat 13:57:17 saved. I'm pretty sure we will so I will be able to get back to that. 13:57:20 Thank you, Adam. 13:57:21 Okay. We have three minutes left in 13:57:25 the hour. Do we have any other 13:57:28 comments? Would the ARiA team like 13:57:32 to throw anything else out there for our 13:57:34 ahead experience? >> TRACY WEBER: Just a word of 13:57:37 proceedings for all the facilitators. 13:57:40 I have been so impressed how so many have 13:57:44 stepped up. It is a 13:57:48 time commitment. But having participated in a 13:57:51 breakout session. Really, really important. 13:57:56 >> TINA PAPPAS: Melody, not 13:57:59 yet but great idea. That will be a consideration for 13:58:03 ARiA 2.0. They have such logistics behind them. 13:58:05 We are going to do this and we try to 13:58:08 map out what it entails to do that and we are like okay. 13:58:11 Let's think about this a little 13:58:16 more. [Laughter] 13:58:20 >> TINA PAPPAS: We think the cohort 13:58:22 idea if we could explore and move forward with that, that might help. 13:58:26 The cohorts will be able to build within themselves and we will be able 13:58:29 to connect cohorts as well. But that is a whole different 13:58:32 undertaking. It is a dream right now and maybe if 13:58:35 we are lucky, we will be able to get 13:58:38 started on that. 13:58:52 So this things with Slack. 13:58:55 Not everyone likes Slack I 13:58:58 do. I know you Wanda. I'm from Rutgers as well. 13:59:10 There's an option in the contact form 13:59:13 in requesting to be facilitator. 13:59:21 Thank you Andrea. 13:59:23 Okay. Well, we're at time. And so, I 13:59:27 want to thank everyone again for being here today. This will be 13:59:30 recorded. It will be vail on the registration website. This link 13:59:33 and resources and everything we have talked about is all on the 13:59:36 ARiA website and if you are interested in a session, I 13:59:39 encourage you to sign up soon. As we said, 13:59:43 we have been selling out in about 24-48 hours. 13:59:46 So, I hope that the people on this call will have a chance 13:59:50 to get in on a 13:59:56 session. Take care everyone. 65 tickets sold in 14:00:00 a minute. [Laughter] 14:00:08 [Event concluded] 14:00:09