Institute #125
Racial Akido: Equipping Students of Color
at Predominantly White Institutions—A STUDENT RETREAT
Students of color at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs) often find training dominated by cultural competency workshops and diversity trainings that are targeted toward the dominant group (usually identified as Whites/Anglos in the United States). While it is important that such trainings exist, it is equally important, and often overlooked, to have workshops aimed specifically at students of color, to provide students of color with training that develops their understanding of racial and ethnic identity formation aimed to provide a framework for the concepts of power and privilege, internalized oppression, and self-awareness.
Students in this day and a half-long "retreat" will be offered the space to positively explore one's racial identity, and learn tools needed to recognize, respond, and replenish after encountering instances of overt/covert racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia in one's daily lives. This session should particularly benefit current college students of color interested in (1) exploring one's identity with other people of color in a race-affinity space and (2) finding ways to address everyday oppression.
PART I—Tuesday, May 29—8:30–11:30 a.m.
PART II—Tuesday, May 29—1:30–5:30 p.m.
PART III—Wednesday, May 30—8:30–11:30 a.m.
Nicholas Negrete, MEd, Assistant Dean of Students, Retention & Assessment, Office of the Dean of Students, University of Vermont—Burlington, Vermont
Patricia Chau Nguyen, MEd, Assistant Dean of Students, Director, Asian & Asian American Center, Cornell University—Ithaca, New York
Sherwood Smith, EdD, Lecture, Leadership & Developmental Sciences and Director, Center for Cultural Pluralism, University of Vermont—Burlington, Vermont
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