The Cultural Competency Workshops are a professional development opportunity designed to help participants gain the tools and skills to improve self-reflection and awareness, communicate effectively across different experiences and cultures, foster mutual respect, and promote an inclusive campus.
The process of getting out of our comfort zones to recognize how our identities affect and are affected by where we are and the social structures that we are a part of. Explores how our identity and experiences influence our perceptions of the world around us – these can affect research, teaching, leading, policymaking, and even everyday interactions.
This session provides general information about students with disabilities on campus, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Office of Accessibilities.
Learn about the experiences of students with autism in college and how to create supportive environments for success.
Celebrate multigenerational workplaces and learn strategies for collaboration and understanding across generations.
Understand how class, socioeconomic status, and basic needs affect UVU students and how to better support them.
Training designed to help faculty and staff better serve veteran and military-affiliated students.
Explore mental health prevalence, empathy, anxiety, depression, and how to approach sensitive conversations.
Examine how worldviews and interfaith interactions shape relationships, beliefs, and understanding.
Learn vocabulary, experiences, and ways to support LGBTQIA+ students through discussion and activities.
Information and tools to support refugee and immigrant students, faculty, and staff.
Learn definitions, policy impacts, and strategies to support undocumented and DACAmented students.
An introduction to cultural competency and the importance of these workshops.
The idea that everything we do is connected to others and that the various aspects of our identities play a role in these interactions. This can lead to differences in how we relate to others and to different groups, particularly when considering the complexity of individual lived experiences.
Your body doesn't define you. No matter your size, shape, color, or ability, you deserve to take up space in this world. In this workshop, we will focus on size. We will discuss the myths, lies, and realities of health, obesity, and the natural shapes of our community.
Worldview: The foundational outlook you have on life that helps you make sense of the world around you. Interfaith: “Interfaith” is about how our interactions with those who are different impacts the way we relate to our religious and ethical traditions, and how our relationships with our traditions impact our interactions with those who are different from us.
Returning Fall 2025.
This workshop will be group discussion where participants will have time to consider identities that they each hold and how that impacts them in society. The facilitators will provide group expectations and then offer questions that each person will be expected to answer, these question will help participants better understand themselves and others.
This workshop examines global competence and the importance of a global perspective on campus. Participants in this workshop to learn tools of global competency and how to apply this toolkit in their work.
This workshop will help participants engage in a discussion on how justice and healing are important aspects of inclusion and are important to building a community of belonging.
This workshop is designed to help identify, gather, and present reliable and accurate metrics of engagement and discuss how we interpret the data into effective storytelling.
At UVU, we want every student, staff, faculty, and community member to feel a sense of belonging. We can help by becoming more aware of and learning about incivility and microaggressions. We'll learn together by sharing our experiences, understanding our impact on others, and practicing skills to facilitate understanding and dialogue when incivility occurs.
Join us in this workshop to gain communication tools for personal and professional application! Develop insights to help prevent and de-escalate conflict through exploration of effective communication strategies. Learn from peers' experiences by sharing real-life scenarios. Leave with a customized action plan to address your communication challenges.
This session is for those who have registered and completed the CCW: Autism in College.
Your words matter! Students with disabilities make up a significant portion of the population on any college campus. Most do not declare themselves as students with disabilities for many reasons. In this presentation, we will specifically highlight the stigma that can be perpetuated by even the most well-meaning individual and can cause reluctance in seeking support. As a part of the UVU community, it’s important to understand that the use of inclusive language makes a vast difference in a student’s choice to declare themselves as a student with a disability and get needed support. In this session, we will explore what inclusive language means in the world of disability, review appropriate language and discuss how incorporating small changes can make a world of difference to students with disabilities.
