Latest Past Events

MSI CIBER Consortium – The Inclusion Competencies Inventory: A Skill Based Approach to Inclusion

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Interested in learning how well equipped your students are for inclusion?

If so, join our webinar describing a new assessment instrument – the Inclusion Competencies Inventory (ICI). To date, diversity research and training has seldom taken a competency-based approach. Instead, training emphasizing white privilege or unconscious bias is more common in some countries, even though it occasionally results in resistance and there is little research evidence that it works. Building on the way we teach cross-cultural differences and utilize intercultural assessments, we focus on an individual-level, competency-based approach that is less likely to engender resistance and more likely to promote personal and organizational change in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. After describing the rigorous instrumentation process used to create the ICI, an expert diversity trainer will describe her experiences using the ICI to trigger diversity, equity, and inclusion work in three different organizational settings.

This is a FREE webinar, but registration is required. Please click on the link to register.

Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan: Partner Event: The Great Line 5 Debate

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Speaker A panel of speakers will present

For speaker information, please see program information/registration link.

The Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan focuses on global issues of interest to the mid-Michigan business community. The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities. With extensive international experience, the speakers wrap personal insights around a practical and up-to-the-minute approach to conducting international trade.

Lansing Regional Chamber – Economic Club, Loretta J. Ross, “Calling in the Calling Out Culture”

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Partnering with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Commission of Mid-Michigan to feature Professor Loretta Ross, Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. Professor Ross appears regularly in major media outlets about the issues of our day.She was recently featured in aNew York Timespiece, What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? which will be the focus of the conversation. The program begins at 11 a.m. Virtual networking will occur before the program from 10:40 to 11 a.m. and after the program from noon to 12:15 p.m.