Our focus is to create space for underrepresented faculty, staff, and students to discuss and share navigational strategies. Underrepresented faculty, staff, and students traditionally represent a lower proportional number to the homogenous campus regarding race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, culture, religion, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. These groups are typically structurally excluded and/or minoritized. We offer two programs: Navigationalist Live and Navigationalist Workshops.
Bring Navigationalist Live to your campus
When we visit your campus, we create a space for your faculty, staff, and students to have a conversation about navigational strategies to be successful. On each Navigational Live, we invite guest navigationalists who are researchers, scholars, faculty, and administrators to discuss a variety of audience questions. Before each show, we invite attendees to send questions. With help from the audience and host, our guest navigationalists offer a set of navigational strategies to address these questions.
We can curate Navigationalist Live to discuss what is important for your campus by centering the discussion around the underrepresented group. Together, we will create a plan that matches your goals and offer the right strategies your institution is looking for. We offer three templates for Navigationalist Live.
1) Navigationalist Live for Underrepresented Faculty and Staff
As the student population becomes more diverse, it is imperative to foster a diverse faculty to meet the changing student demographics. This experience empowers underrepresented faculty and staff with tools they can use to succeed in higher education. The Navigationalist for Underrepresented Faculty and Staff focuses on the why and how. We have a list of navigationalists that can address all your needs. Audience questions include:
“Hi, we have been talking a lot about this. To codeswitch or not to codeswitch, that is the question. Do I have to codeswitch, or do I already have codeswitch? First of all, what is it?”
“I just moved from Alabama to a college in Ohio. I am the only person of color in my department. And I am the only person of color in the city. What was your experience or heard?”
“In my department, it seems my White supervisor pays little attention when we meet. She seems distracted. I want to be successful. How do I address this?”
2) Navigationalist Live for Underrepresented Students
Nearly all colleges and universities have equity and inclusion plans to enhance underrepresented students, but isms such as racism, sexism, ableism, and other isms still exist, especially in homogenous spaces. Although the landscape of higher education is changing for the better, in regards to advocates pushing for change in its structure, power, rules, and policies to retain and graduate males of color, it is also important to empower our underrepresented students by equipping, identifying, and sharing navigational strategies to be successful in higher education. Navigationalist Live for Students empowers underrepresented students with navigational strategies to stay on track for success. It is crucial to instill tools for success. For example, studies show that students of color are more likely to receive a microaggression when they attend a predominantly white institution. Therefore, it is essential to provide males of color with various strategies to respond to microaggression.
- What should I do during the first week of class?
- How can I build a relationship with my faculty?
- How to respond to micro assaults?
- How to build a social support system?
- Do I need a mentor? Why?
- Why is an internship important?
- and more.
Navigationalist Live for All
This special experience includes elements from Navigationalist for Faculty and Staff and Navigationalist for students. Together we will curate a discussion focusing on your priorities, goals, and needs on campus. In this format, we create a space where underrepresented faculty, staff, and students together discuss and share navigational strategies to be successful and better ways to support our underrepresented students.
Navigationalist Workshops for Underrepresented faculty, staff, and students
Learn a variety of ways to navigate higher ed! We offer various learning experiences that focus on empowering and equipping underrepresented faculty with navigational capital to succeed in higher education. These experiences are customized presentations for underrepresented faculty and staff. Our solutions are designed with our client’s organization, readiness and needs in mind. Take a look at our list of navigationalists. Examples of our professional experiences for underrepresented faculty and staff includes:
- Strategies to Respond to Respond to Bias and Microaggressions
- Deep Dive into Covert Racism
- Career Advancement in Academia
- What is Self-Promotion and why is it important And We Don’t Do It
- and more
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