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Today we conclude the CUPA-HR 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge © brought to you by CEAS HR for higher education leaders. Our final challenge to you is to sustain the momentum you’ve gained over the past four weeks! Practice these habits daily, take action personally and professionally, and use the resources below to help our institution make meaningful progress toward racial equity.

6 Habits That Promote Racial Equity

1. Read books and articles, listen to podcasts, and watch videos regularly to deepen your understanding of the issues. 

2. Notice what’s happening around you. For example:

   • As you move through the day, what’s the racial composition of the people around you? On your commute? At the coffee shop you go to? At the gym? On-campus?

   • Notice how much of your day you are speaking about racism. Who are you engaging with on these issues? Who are you not? Why do you think this is?

   • Who is filling what kinds of jobs and social roles on your campus? Can you correlate any of this to racial identity?

3. Connect to racial justice activists, educators, and organizations on social media.

4. Engage with members of marginalized communities on your campus with the intent to learn and bridge knowledge gaps.

5. Call out behavior that undermines racial equity and justice. For example:

   • Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes.  offers some advice about how.

   • Interrupt the pattern of white silence by speaking openly with family, friends, and colleagues about what you’re doing and learning in the 21-Day Challenge.

   • When the status quo is racist, disrupt it — from discouraging inappropriate language to sharing articles, blogs, movies, and other media that you find impactful. Let people know you are not neutral!

6. Reflect every day on what you have chosen to do, what you’re learning, and how you’re feeling.

CUPA-HR Resources for Taking Action to Address
Systemic Racism at Your Institution

CUPA-HR has developed and curated  to support your DEI work on campus, including:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Maturity Index — This invaluable online tool lets you measure your institution’s DEI efforts against a variety of criteria, and provides suggestions and resources for strengthening areas where progress has been slow. 
• Creating Inclusive Communities Project — Portraits and videos tell the stories of 24 higher ed HR professionals. Use the Discussion documents to initiate conversations on your campus. 
• Visit our CEAS Diversity & Inclusion Actions and Resources site: /engineering/diversity-inclusion-actions-and-resources.
• The CU �鶹ӰԺ Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan is the culminating effort of four years of groundwork and effort, the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan is officially complete and available for the campus. The IDEA Plan is the campus’ blueprint for diversity, equity and inclusive excellence outlining three key areas of impact: climate, infrastructure and leadership in addition to identifying 5 actions to achieve results (CLIMB). Read the IDEA Plan.
• Attend the 2020 Fall Diversity & Inclusion Summit - Tuesday, November 10 | Remote Day of Sessions

Summit Theme: Inclusion, Resilience, and Service
As a community, we acknowledge that our work towards a more inclusive, diverse and equitable environment is always situated within the broader context of our society. We are linked to the social climate of our campus, our region, our state and our nation. For this year’s Diversity and Inclusion Summit, there will be a remote day of workshops. Under the theme “Inclusion, Resilience and Service,” we will explore the multiple intersecting events affecting our immediate community because they are impacting our broader community.  More information can be found here: /odece/2020-fall-diversity-inclusion-summit

Please view the attached discussion guide if you're going to start having conversations around race. 

• Join our campus community in reading So You Want to Talk about Race by author Ijeoma Oluo. The fall Diversity Summit will include a session that features a panel discussion about themes in the book such as intersectionality, affirmative action, race, racism in the context of American life. The �鶹ӰԺ and the City of �鶹ӰԺ are bringing the campus and �鶹ӰԺ communities together to deepen understanding about race and racism through the One Read program. To learn more about the book, the collaboration, and for some additional resources please visit the Universities Libraries page.
• Sign-up for the ODECE newsletter: /odece/content/newsletter-signup. 
• Enroll in Making Excellence Inclusive 101 (MEI 101) focuses on integrating inclusion strategies in daily work. This course, offered by the Department of Human Resources, was designed in consultation with the Office of Diversity Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE).
• Visit the Center for Teaching and Learning at: /center/teaching-learning/inclusivity. 

Thank You!

We are honored that you joined us for this 21-day journey and look forward to our ongoing partnership and collaboration as we enhance our understanding of race, create life-long habits around racial equity learning and action, and move our institution from talk to action in addressing the systems that perpetuate racial inequalities, inequities and injustice. Let’s keep the momentum going as we work toward meaningful change within our institution! Go Buffs!