September 1, 2021 Edition |
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Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month |
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Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated September 15 through October 15. What is now a 30-day celebration started as a weeklong celebration in 1968. On August 17, 1988 the week was expanded to 30 days by President Ronald Reagan. This month celebrates the history, culture and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America ( https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/about/). |
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USDA to Invest $50 Million in New Cooperative Agreements for Racial Justice and Equity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing up to $50 million in cooperative agreements to support historically underserved farmers and ranchers with climate-smart agriculture and forestry. The Racial Justice and Equity Conservation Cooperative Agreements are available to entities for two year projects that expand the delivery of conservation assistance to farmers who are beginning, limited resource, socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers.
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Host a DEI Webinar for Your Department/Unit!
Did you know that in addition to offering monthly, open webinars, the CFAES Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offers in-house delivery of programs to any CFAES unit or department by request for FREE? Available webinars address topics such as implicit bias, microaggressions, bystander intervention, power and privilege, inclusive hiring, and LGBTQ+ issues. If you are interested in hosting a program for members of your unit or department or would like more information please contact Dr. Leo Taylor, Program Manager for Faculty and Staff Affairs at taylor.3408@osu.edu. Visit the DEI website for descriptions of upcoming and past programs to get a better idea about currently available topics. Suggestions for new programs/topics are always welcome!
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DEI Spotlights: Will Return in October |
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These spotlights celebrate our colleagues and students who are working to make CFAES and the community a welcoming place for all people. Do you know a faculty, staff, or student who you think should be featured? To submit a nomination for the DEI Faculty, staff and student, please fill out this form. |
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September and October 2021 CFAES DEI Webinars |
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Inclusive Excellence in Hiring
LOCATION: Zoom
DATE AND TIME:
Wednesday, September 1st, 11:00AM-12:30PM ET
Wednesday, October 6th, 11:00AM-12:30PM ET
Wednesday, November 3rd, 11:00AM-12:30PM ET
Wednesday, December 1st 11:00AM-12:30PM ET
This 90-minute training provides an overview of best practices for recruiting a diverse candidate pool for faculty and staff positions. Participants will examine the role that various forms of implicit bias can play in screening applicants and identify ways that intersecting social identities create an unlevel competitive job market. Strategies for targeted recruitment of historically underrepresented minority applicants will be addressed. The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences requires that all individuals serving on search committees complete this training every 2 years.
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Identity, Power, and Privilege
Location: Zoom
Date and Time: Thursday, September 2, 1:00PM-3:00PM
What does it mean to have privilege? What is oppression? How do your social identities, such as race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, etc. grant or deny you privilege? How can we use privilege to transform systems that perpetuate social inequity? This 2-hour interactive webinar will explore these questions, providing participants with an opportunity to delve into their social identities - a process that reveals how we all have and lack privilege simultaneously.
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Implicit Associations, Insidious Assumptions: Unintended Manifestations of Bias in Everyday Life
Location: Zoom
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 15, 12:00PM-1:30PM
This 90-minute introductory webinar will provide an overview of the various types of bias that humans experience with an emphasis on implicit bias. We will explore how our socialization process leads to the formation of conscious and unconscious associations, stereotypes, and prejudices that can influence how we treat others in unintended ways. Participants will learn common ways that bias manifests in the form of subtle microaggressions and identify strategies that can help reduce the impact of implicit biases.
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Stand up, Speak Out! How to Interrupt Bias by Being an Active Bystander
LOCATION: Zoom
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, September 30th, 1:00PM-2:30PM ET
All too often we witness subtle comments or behaviors rooted in bias that cause harm to others, many times directed toward people in vulnerable populations. Have you ever been in a situation like that and wanted to say or do something, but didn't know what to do? Anyone can become an active bystander and learn to address explicit and implicit bias. In this 90-minute, interactive webinar, we will explore some of the most common forms of bias and identify tools you can use as an active bystander to interrupt bias in daily life.
Presenter: Dr. Leo Taylor
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Gender Demystified: Creating Inclusive Environments for People of All Genders
LOCATION: Zoom
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, October 14th, 12:00PM-1:30PM ET
Have you noticed that some people include their pronouns next to their name on Zoom, but aren’t sure why? Are you unsure about gender-neutral pronouns or nonbinary gender identities? Would you like to better understand how gender differs from sex and sexual orientation? This 90-minute webinar will explore the various aspects of identity that relate to gender and sex. Participants will learn key vocabulary, gain a better understanding of their own identities, and identify ways to strive for allyship with transgender and gender non-conforming individuals to create environments that are inclusive of all genders.
This webinar is free and open to anyone at Ohio State.
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Inclusive Teaching in the Virtual Classroom: Applying an Equity Lens to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
LOCATION: Zoom
DATES AND TIMES: Wednesday, October 27th , 12:00PM-1:30PM ET
Teaching practices must be adapted across modalities – what worked in the physical classroom may not translate well in the virtual classroom. This is especially true when applying an equity lens to maximize inclusivity and account for a diversity of learning preferences. The “banking” model of education, in which an expert deposits knowledge via lecturing into the minds of the passive absorber, has been shown to be less effective and even reinforce oppression, thus active learning strategies and other tools have been developed to create inclusive classrooms that work better for a variety of learning styles. Virtual classrooms come with unique equity and inclusion challenges that must be addressed to ensure the needs of all learners are met. This 90-minute interactive webinar will outline strategies educators can use in virtual classrooms to create an engaging, inclusive, and equitable learning environment. Participants will leave with a better understanding of technology and other strategies available to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion goals when teaching in virtual classrooms.
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Recommended Articles and Resources
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This editorial goes over the history and details of a collaborative effort to improve the academic climate of the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. What started in 2016 as a graduate student-led grassroots movements has grown into a department-wide effort to systematically collect data, exchange ideas, and implement goal-oriented interventions to make the department inclusive. Could your department benefit from some of their strategies?
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You’ve just had a fresh look at your course syllabi for the fall semester. How did it go? Did you find areas that needed to be modified to improve inclusivity and equity? Here are a couple of excellent resources that apply a DEI lens to course syllabi. The first is an timely piece about how the pandemic is currently impacting our most vulnerable and historically underserved students in ways that could make the upcoming semester challenging in novel ways (even unlike Spring 2021). Course policies from previous semesters may need to be adapted to account for the unique and unpredictable set of challenges that will accompany the upcoming semester. The second piece is a very extensive article and outstanding resource for anyone constructing a syllabus, but especially folks who want to create the most inclusive and equitable learning environment for students.
This article addresses how to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to address accessibility issues. UDL contrasts with the traditional model in that it considers all students with accessibility needs, not just those with “officially” recognized and documented disabilities. This article will help you think about how you can promote inclusivity in your classroom and how to convey that in your syllabus (e.g., using content warnings for potentially triggering content).
Several emerging studies show that the students who have been hit hardest by the pandemic are the same ones that higher education often underserved prior to 2020: students of color and of lower socioeconomic status and those with mental-health concerns and physical and learning disabilities. In addition, some unfolding evidence suggests that students who contracted COVID-19 experience high levels of depression, anxiety, and food insecurity. Have you considered adapting any of your course policies because of the current unique equity issues facing some of our most vulnerable students (e.g., attendance, late assignments)? To maximize student success, avoid using inflexible or year’s old policies (or even those from last Spring) that may harm vulnerable or underserved students.
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Opportunities Around Campus and in the Community |
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ODI announced its newest web resource from the Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, & Assessment Unit. The page features all of the units services and resources in a centralized location. In an e-mail announcement, Dr. Childers states, "We support Ohio State's strategic vision to assure that diversity, equity, and inclusion are core principles of everything that we do by providing the knowledge and tools needed to foster a climate of excellence that is socially diverse, welcoming, and supportive for all students and employees".
Our services and resources include:
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Social Identity 101
Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:30AM Zoom
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Education Program supports the area of Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, and Assessment within The Office of Diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to support campus-wide efforts in creating an equitable, socially just institution where all of our students, faculty and staff feel they are valued and belong.
Our Social Identity 101 workshop offers participants a guided opportunity to dive deeper into understanding their social identities and privileges. Participants will learn how social identity connects to oppression, debunk the myth of reverse oppression, and identify ways we can leverage our privilege(s) and/or power for advocacy and social change.
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Sophia Antoun at antoun.5@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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We're Not Your Model: Dismantling the Asian Model Minority Myth
Thursday, September 9, 2021 3:00PM- Zoom
For decades, Asian and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) folks have been denied our racial reality. Socially constructed perceptions of either academic or professional success have made us a “model minority," effectively erasing our historical and present day experiences with systemic racism and oppression. When we unpack the numerous identities that exist within the APIDA community and the historical legacy of oppression APIDA folks contend with on a daily basis, we see that the label of “model minority” is nothing but a myth, and that this label serves a very different sociological function.
Join us in a discussion of the “Model Minority” myth’s historical roots in white supremacy, and discover ways to dismantle the myth, reduce its harmful impacts on our everyday lives, and reclaim an empowered Asian and APIDA identity.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Sophia Antoun at antoun.5@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Microaggressions 101
Tuesday, September 14, 11:30AM- Zoom
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Education Program supports the area of Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, and Assessment within The Office of Diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to support campus-wide efforts in creating an equitable, socially just institution where all of our students, faculty and staff feel they are valued and belong. Our program offers a variety of educational experiences to enrich DEI efforts across the university and build the intradepartmental skills necessary for faculty and staff to achieve their unit/college’s DEI goals.
Microaggressions cause harm in every workplace. Yet many of us remain confused about what a microaggression actually is, what to do when we experience one, and what to do if someone tells us we have enacted one. This workshop dives deep into the definition of microaggressions, equips participants with a firm understanding of what constitutes as a microaggression, and offers tools to plan out interventions and/or hold ourselves accountability when faced with microaggressions.
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Sophia Antoun at antoun.5@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Microaggressions 102
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 11:3AM-Zoom
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Education Program supports the area of Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, and Assessment within The Office of Diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to support campus-wide efforts in creating an equitable, socially just institution where all of our students, faculty and staff feel they are valued and belong. Our program offers a variety of educational experiences to enrich DEI efforts across the university and build the intradepartmental skills necessary for faculty and staff to achieve their unit/college’s DEI goals.
This workshop focuses on how we can address microaggressions. Participants will learn microintervention strategies that can be used when we experience or witness a microaggression, as well as strategies for how to hold ourselves accountable and offer meaningful apologies if we are told we’ve enacted a microaggression. This is an application-based workshop, and participants will have numerous opportunities to practice these strategies as well as reflect on how they can use them moving forward. This workshop is designed to be attended after Microaggressions 101.
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Sophia Antoun at antoun.5@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Navigating Difficult DEI Conversations
Thursday, September 30, 11:30- Zoom
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Education Program supports the area of Strategic Diversity Planning, Training, and Assessment within The Office of Diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to support campus-wide efforts in creating an equitable, socially just institution where all of our students, faculty and staff feel they are valued and belong. Our program offers a variety of educational experiences to enrich DEI efforts across the university and build the intradepartmental skills necessary for faculty and staff to achieve their unit/college’s DEI goals.
“I just don’t know how to have this conversation.” If you’ve ever had this thought, this workshop is for you. Difficult conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion range from conceptual to conflict resolution. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to learn what’s important to consider when having difficult conversations and offers concrete tools to avoid harmful conversations in favor of healing ones.
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Sophia Antoun at antoun.5@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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LGBTQ First-Year Q*mmunity
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:00PM-7:00PM
Location: Alonso Family Room, Multicultural Center, Ohio Union
The LGBTQ First-Year Q*mmunity (FYQ*) is a group for students who are new to LGBTQ+ life at Ohio State. If you’re a first-year student, a transfer student, newly out, or need help connecting to OSU’s LGBTQ+ community, this group is for you!
With the guidance of student peer leaders, FYQ* provides space for LGBTQ+ students to connect and engage with each other in a supportive environment. FYQ* includes topics such as campus and community resources, exploring identities and intersectionality, living authentically, self-advocacy, and more. We encourage folks to come every week, but you are welcome to drop in whenever you can!
FYQ* meets on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Center’s Alonso Family Room.
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Women of Color Collective
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:00PM-8:30PM
Location: Room 101 of the Kirwan Institute at 33 W 11th Ave
The Women of Color Collective is a program of the Student Life Multicultural Center that provides a space for students who are women of color to connect, dialogue, celebrate and support each other’s whole authentic selves through an intersectional lens. Our meetings foster intercultural dialogue and to create a community of Women of Color students and space of solidarity, support and affirmation.
This group meets every Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Madison Eagle at eagle.41@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Native OSU Meeting
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:00PM-8:00PM
Location: Student Life Multicultural Center Alonso Family Room
NativeOSU is a student community that provides support and creates space for Native American and Indigenous students to explore and understand their personal identity, develop leadership opportunities and build community. NativeOSU also promotes the awareness of issues concerning Native American and Indigenous students and advances the education and understanding of Native American and Indigenous culture among cohort members and the university community.
Native OSU Meetings are held every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Life Multicultural Center Alonso Family Room.
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Navigating Women's Resources on Campus
Thursday, September 2, 2021 1:00 PM-2:00PM
Location: Ohio Union, Senate Chamber
This workshop will cover how to navigate supportive resources for women-identified students on campus. This includes Women Student Initiatives in the Multicultural Center, SARNCO, Title IX, The Women’s Place, Student Organizations, Counseling and Consultation, and much more. This presentation will help you better understand these resources, what they do, who they serve and how to best utilize them.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Madison Eagle at eagle.41@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Queer and Trans People of Color Cohort
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:30 PM-8:30PM
Location: Alonso Family Room, Multicultural Center, Ohio Union
The Queer and Trans People of Color Cohort (QTPOCC) is a group for LGBTQ+ people of color at Ohio State.
QTPOCC provides space for LGBTQ+ students of color to connect and build community in a supportive environment. With the guidance of student peer leaders, QTPOCC facilitates socialization and dialogue, focusing on topics such as the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ POC, navigating college as an LGBTQ+ student of color, coming out/living out, campus and community resources, and more. We encourage folks to come every week, but you are welcome to drop in whenever you can!
QTPOCC meets on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center’s Alonso Family Room.
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Open Workshop: JGBTQ 101
Friday, September 10, 2021, 1:00PM-2:00PM-Zoom
This workshop provides an overview of LGBTQ identities, terminology, and history. LGBTQ 101 is open to students, faculty, and staff interested in learning more about the LGBTQ+ community. This 1-hour workshop is offered once a month and by request. All Fall 2021 workshops are offered virtually on Zoom unless otherwise noted.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Ari Grubaugh at grubaugh.20@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi American (APIDA) Cohort
Monday, September 13, 2021, 6:00PM-7:00PM
Location: Student Life Multicultural Center, Ohio Union
The Asian, Pacific-Islander, Desi-American (APIDA) Cohort is a space for relationship building, acceptance, and empowerment. We welcome all APIDA identifying students to come together and build community through engaging in conversation, sharing your own unique experience as an APIDA Buckeye, and learning about others across our communities.
Each week we host a different activity or discussion, often facilitated by Student Peer Leaders, or members of APIDA student organizations, alumni, or community partners.
APIDA Cohort meets in the Student Life Multicultural Center (located in the Ohio Union) every Monday at 6 p.m. This program is a drop-in space. We encourage folks to come every week, but you are welcome to drop in whenever you can!
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What is Orange Shirt Day?
Thursday, September 16, 20211, 6:00PM-7:00PM-Zoom
Join Intercultural Specialist, Melissa Beard Jacob, for a presentation surrounding Orange Shirt Day and its history and significance to Native American and Indigenous communities and the impacts of boarding/residential school experiences.
The Ohio State Community will be observing Orange Shirt Day on Thursday, September 30. Please remember to wear your orange! Participants who attend this information session will have an opportunity to stop by the Student Life Multicultural Center and receive an official Native OSU Orange Shirt Day t-shirt.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Madison Eagle at eagle.41@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Open Workshop: Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Classrooms
Friday, September 17, 20211, 1:00PM-3:00PM-Zoom
The Student Life Multicultural Center offers this training to facilitate faculty and staff in creating more inclusive spaces for LGBTQ students. This workshop focuses on best practices for supporting LGBTQ students in the classroom as well as strategies for navigating challenging conversations and interrupting bias. This 2-hour workshop is offered once a month and by request. All Fall 2021 workshops are offered virtually on Zoom unless otherwise noted. It is recommended, but not required, for participants to attend a LGBTQ 101 or Safe Zone workshop before attending this workshop.
Registration is required.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Ari Grubaugh at grubaugh.20@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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Open Workshop: Trans 101
Friday, September 24, 20211, 1:30PM-3:00PM-Zoom
This workshop explores best practices for engaging with and supporting transgender and gender non-conforming students and communities at The Ohio State University. The workshop is recommended for faculty, staff, and students. Through this 1- and 30-minute training, participants will gain a greater understanding of transgender identities and the systems of oppression that affect their community as well as strategies for creating gender inclusive spaces. It is recommended, but not required, for participants to attend a Safe Zone Training before attending this workshop.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Ari Grubaugh at grubaugh.20@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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2021 University Design Summit 7, Inclusion Fusion |
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The 2021 Universal Design Summit 7, Inclusion Fusion, centers on the synergy of collaboration among a wide variety of professionals working to make physical and digital spaces inclusive and welcoming to people of all ages and abilities. We are happy to announce that Universal Design Summit 7 will be held September 29 – October 1, 2021 in a virtual format for the health and safety of all participants.
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Future Editions of the DEI Newsletter
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Additions to the DEI Newsletter
Have an event or other item you want shared? Please email the exact text and link that you want included to CFAES-DEI@osu.edu by Tuesday, August 31. |
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CFAES Community Updates
If you would like to share news on your recent DEI related publications, presentations, awards received, upcoming events, or other noteworthy milestones, please email them to CFAES-DEI@osu.edu.
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CFAES Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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