BaCE workshops registration

Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)

BaCEBe sure to complete your IDI pre-assessment prior to participating in any BaCE workshop below. Measuring both mindset and skillset, the IDI pre-assessment allows you to see how you make sense of and respond to cultural differences. It will only require 15 – 30 minutes of your time to complete!

Register for the IDI Pre-Assessment

Spring 2023 schedule


Group 2 workshops


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Register for Cultural Immersion Experiences and Sustainable Efforts

In this interactive safe and brave community space, examples of pearls and lessons learned regarding cultural immersion experiences and sustainability in community partnerships will be presented to encourage reflection and conversations. Examples will be shared such as bringing communities into classes and learners into community spaces and preventing dissolution of partnerships and their relevancy in research and scholarship, teaching, service and practice to advance health equity. BaCE participants will be encouraged to reflect and share about weaving and navigating equity-minded strategies.

  • Location: Zoom
  • Facilitators: Connie Nguyen-Truong and Sara Waters
  • This workshop recognizes Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • This is a Group 2 BaCE workshop for Vancouver participants; College of Nursing colleagues may receive CE through College of Nursing, contact Connie Nguyen-Truong for more information
Who can participate:
Students, faculty, staff, supervisors and administrators from all WSU campuses

Group 3 workshops


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Register for Accessibility Best Practices: Learning from design mistakes

Learn how Bruce Elgort has turned his life experiences into accessibility-driven teaching at Clark College. Elgort, a person who is visually impaired, teaches web development and user interface design. He will share some of the good, bad and ugly things he has discovered.

Elgort is an award-winning instructor at Clark College—working hard to inspire and challenge students with meaningful web development and programming experiences. An industry leader, Elgort is known for co-developing Elguji’s IdeaJam software and was recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for being an innovative thought leader in cloud technologies. He is also an Amazon Web Services Cloud Educational Ambassador.

  • Location: Zoom
  • Facilitator: Bruce Elgort
  • Prerequisite: None
  • This is a Group 3 BaCE workshop for WSU Vancouver participants
Who can participate:
Open to all

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Register for Accessible Documents

Learn the importance of captioning for videos and strategies to make sure your office documents are accessible using the tools built into Microsoft Office.

  • Location: Zoom
  • Facilitator: Michelle Eccles
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment (undergraduate students are not required to take the IDI)
  • This is a Group 3 BaCE workshop
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver students, faculty, staff, supervisors and administrators

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Register for Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning is the proactive design of courses to ensure they are educationally accessible regardless of learning style, physical or sensory abilities. This introductory workshop will help you understand what Universal Design for Learning is and what it looks like in practice. Learn how to organize your course in Canvas or other online sites that help your students succeed; learn how to integrate active learning modules that help all of your students participate in ways that are the most successful for them.

  • Location: Zoom
  • Facilitator: Michelle Eccles
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment suggested, not required
  • This is a Group 3 BaCE workshop
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver graduate students, faculty, staff, supervisors and administrators