{"id":83625,"date":"2023-06-22T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sou.edu\/academics\/?page_id=83625"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:59:15","slug":"equity-diversity-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sou.edu\/academics\/general-education\/capacities\/equity-diversity-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-e4ex97t-2b66be75068d1da1eb3e81a0425c216c\">\n.avia-section.av-e4ex97t-2b66be75068d1da1eb3e81a0425c216c{\nbackground-color:#f3f3f3;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1' aria-label='SOU UGS University Studies - Explorations Page - Intro Section' class='avia-section av-e4ex97t-2b66be75068d1da1eb3e81a0425c216c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_submenu  avia-builder-el-first  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el_before_av_textblock '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ljdaop5g-801275ca43162b63d59cd68772beab7b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-ljdaop5g-801275ca43162b63d59cd68772beab7b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-ljdaop5g-801275ca43162b63d59cd68772beab7b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span class=\"heavy-man\">What:<\/span> The capacity for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion prepares learners to engage in an intentional and continuous process of learning culturally affirming ways of being, interacting, and behaving that result in equitable living outcomes in both global and local communities. EDI encourages the development of empathy, respect, and understanding around differences and the tools to help bridge those differences. EDI prioritizes the critical awareness of historical and contemporary structural inequity and its causes; encourages the development of empathy, respect, and skills for communicating across differences (including but not limited to race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, gender identity or expression, disability, body size, age, sexuality, social class, religion, linguistic background, and nationality); and develops tools in service of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"heavy-man\">Why:<\/span> EDI enables students to work collaboratively, effectively, equitably, and respectfully with diverse groups. Students may better understand systemic oppression and advocate for a more equitable world by developing global and intercultural fluency.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-vz59ih-13237d9211529c592bdc17da49df01ec\">\n#top .hr.av-vz59ih-13237d9211529c592bdc17da49df01ec{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:20px;\n}\n.hr.av-vz59ih-13237d9211529c592bdc17da49df01ec .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-vz59ih-13237d9211529c592bdc17da49df01ec hr-custom  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_heading  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-8k7st49-aa500a891f29aa6c8dd5f6f3691059a4\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-8k7st49-aa500a891f29aa6c8dd5f6f3691059a4{\npadding-bottom:0;\nfont-size:22px;\n}\nbody 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><span class=\"heavy-man\">Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Capacity<\/span><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-7zyn8jt-5048b397462cfeb44d53a5667074ed16 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Identify the intersectional positions occupied by themselves and other people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize social positions defined by race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender identity and expression, sexuality, ability, class, nationality, and others, and their effect on identities.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize and apply key concepts underlying EDI, including diversity, equality vs. equity, inclusion, bias, stereotype, privilege, oppression, intersectionality, and anti-racism.<\/li>\n<li>Empathize with people who occupy different intersectional positions from their own.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the intersectional impacts of multiple systems of oppression (e.g., racism, ethnocentrism, settler colonialism, sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, and others) in shaping societal, group, and individual experiences of privilege and oppression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Decode and interrogate representations of identity, culture, and other social categories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand how evidence has been used to legitimize and resist inequity and how such evidence is created, collected, and deployed via political, cultural, and social practices.<\/li>\n<li>Identify examples of bias, stereotypes, prejudice, privilege, omission, and erasure.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize systemic patterns of oppression (e.g., racism, ethnocentrism, settler colonialism, sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, and others).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"heavy-man grow-bro dig-4\">Recognize how systems of power shape society, and how to 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