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. Attendees will also learn about the experiences of students with autism in college and creating supportive environments for success.
Attendees will also learn about the experiences of students with autism in college and creating supportive environments for success.
During this workshop, we will celebrate the multigenerational work environments we experience in higher education. In this session, we will emphasize the advantages of having a variety of generations in the workplace and develop strategies for fostering collaboration and understanding between them.
The goal of this workshop is to provide UVU faculty and staff with an understanding of what UVU students can experience in terms of class, socioeconomic status, and basic needs. With this information, we hope that UVU faculty and staff can integrate this knowledge into their campus role to show exceptional care to students.
This workshop introduces gender as a social category, discusses gender-related terminology, and provides a brief analysis of gender roles and relations in society as well as in higher education.
Modeled on the "Safe Zone" program, Green Zone is designed for faculty and staff to receive training about issues potentially facing service members, veterans, and their families. This workshop is designed to develop tools to better serve veteran and military affiliated students.
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.
The Mental Health workshop provides a brief description on the prevalence of mental health issues, particularly anxiety and depression. Participants will also learn about important mental health concepts, such as empathy, anxiety, depression, and suicide. Finally, participants will be taught how to approach sensitive mental health issues with regard to students and colleagues.
This session focuses on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual + community at UVU with an emphasis on common vocabulary and understanding our student population through interactive group discussion and activities.
A participatory workshop for cursory knowledge of definitions, history, and examples of race and ethnicity, including laws and policies predicated on both or either, and how such knowledge impacts what we do in higher education.
This workshop provides information to support our refugee and immigrant students, faculty, and staff.
Participants will gain knowledge of definitions, student impact and how to assist undocumented and DACAmented students effectively by understanding policy that impacts this population.
An orientation to Cultural Competency. Introduces general concepts and helps participants understand 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.
