Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning

Culturally Responsive Student Support

Academic Advising

Overview

The purpose of this experience is to provide academic advisors and other student-support staff with a framework to help guide their selection of and engagement with diversity trainings to build awareness, confidence and competence when working with students across difference. This endorsement encourages advisors and staff to participate in trainings that will support their growth in specific skills areas and competencies that are associated with improved outcomes of helping interventions.

 

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Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Articulate their beliefs about the influence of a student's personal context on their learning.
  • Demonstrate 2 skills that facilitate effective cross-cultural interactions.
  • Name a culture/identity/worldview that they meet frequently within their role and describe at least one specific issue they have addressed through modifying their typical intervention strategies or improving their multicultural skills. 
  • Identify at least 1 cross-cultural skill that has improved and set at least 1 SMART goal for continued improvement in the next year.

Participation Requirements

Eligibility:

The endorsement welcomes up to 25 participants per calendar year. Any student-facing staff person or GA may apply for consideration. Faculty are welcome to apply for consideration for remaining spaces after academic advisors and other student-facing staff are considered and are encouraged to apply for the Inclusive Teaching endorsement.

Getting Started:

All interested parties may apply at http://go.osu.edu/crssendorsement. The application will be available starting August 1st and is due August 30th; participants will be notified of their acceptance in the first week of September. If spots within the cohort are unfilled, the application will remain available until all spots have been claimed. Once all spots have been claimed, the application will close until August of the following year.

Criteria:

Complete three modules in Carmen within 3 semesters of acceptance to the program. 

Each module includes core experiences and elective experiences, as well as a reflection. The amount of time required to meet each core experience or elective experience will vary based on the module. The listed time required is a minimum; if no single experience fulfills the minimum requirement, then you will need to choose additional trainings to reach the minimum. Examples of Ohio State sponsored experiences are provided in each module, but participants are provided a list of questions to consider when evaluating other experiences from outside of the university that may be appropriate for inclusion in their completion of the endorsement.

Participants will submit proof of attendance for their core and elective experiences via Carmen. They will also submit a reflection at the end of each module. After submitting the final reflection, participants will review what they have learned or how their skills have developed through these experiences. Finally, they will submit professional development goals for next year. 

 

Verification

The final teaching endorsement application will require you to upload your post-assessment confirmation email.

 

Program Elements

TBD

TITLEDELIVERY METHODDESCRIPTION
Module 1: Thoughts, feelings, & beliefs Carmen
  • Core (1 hour): Understanding Identities and Intersectionality
  • Elective (1.5 hours): Understanding Bias, Privilege, Marginalization, Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 2: Abilities & skillsCarmen
  • Core (2 hours): Abilities are strengthened through awareness and learning. In advising, many abilities correlate to NACADA’s Relational Competencies. They can include mindsets/approaches/theoretic orientations, creating safe spaces, planning interventions, facilitating problem solving through empowerment, advocacy, practicing cultural humility, and assessment of practice.
  • Elective (2 hours): Skills are concrete behaviors easily identified, practiced, and measured. These include creating safe spaces, using inclusive language, engaging in active listening, calling out and calling in, engaging in decolonizing practices, and more.
Module 3: Intellectual engagement & commitmentCarmen
  • Core (3 hours): Learning about groups and cultures, their histories, and contemporary social issues affecting them
  • Elective (3 hours): Learning more about skills, movements, research, allyship, and community needs

 

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Learn more about Endorsement requirements and offerings.

Apply for Endorsement

Complete your required documentation.