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

Faculty and staff may register for BaCE sessions on Percipio by using the WSU Vancouver BaCE Channel. Click "Attend" to see a list of available sessions.

Group 1 workshops

BaCE, How to Use the Equity Impact Assessment Tool—New!

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Register for How to Use the Equity Impact Assessment Tool

Learn about the importance of the Equity Impact Assessment Tool and how to use it when making and/or reviewing departmental and campus-level decisions, policies, programs, practices and procedures at WSU Vancouver.

  • Facilitators: Obie Ford III and Elisha Hardekopf
  • This workshop recognizes National Day of Coming Out and Disability Employment Awareness Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment
  • A Group 1 workshop
  • Location: Dengerink Administration Building, Room 129
Who can participate
WSU Vancouver graduate students, faculty, staff, supervisors and administrators

BaCE-ics: Basics for Building a Community of Equity

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Register for BaCE-ics

This interactive workshop will explore terms and concepts foundational to doing equity work. Reflect upon and explore concepts like power and privilege, WSU Vancouver’s campus definitions as well as the basic structure of the BaCE certificate program.

  • Facilitators: Shameem Rakha and Elisha Hardekopf
  • Prerequisite: IDI Pre-Assessment
  • This workshop recognizes National Hispanic Heritage Month
  • A Group 1 workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate
WSU Vancouver faculty and staff

Group 2 workshops

BaCE, Embedding Equity in the Search for Staff

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Register for Embedding Equity in the Search for Staff

Get tools to transform the search process for staff and ensure equity, diversity and inclusion in recruitment, hiring and retention. Consider strategies to expand capacity and re-envision the search process as an opportunity to attract and retain staff.

  • Facilitators: Renny Christopher and Obie Ford III
  • This workshop recognizes National Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment
  • A Group 2 workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver search teams, staff, faculty, graduate students, supervisors, administrators

BaCE, Embedding Equity in the Search for Faculty

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Register for Embedding Equity in the Search for Faculty

Learn to transform the search process for faculty and ensure equity, diversity and inclusion in recruitment, hiring and retention. Consider strategies to expand capacity and re-envision the search process as an opportunity to attract and retain faculty from a diversity of backgrounds. Receive tools to examine notions of "fit" and disrupt implicit bias in accordance with a philosophy of inclusive excellence.

  • Facilitators: Renny Christopher and Obie Ford III
  • This workshop recognizes National Disability Employment Awareness Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment
  • A Group 2 workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver search teams, staff, faculty, graduate students, supervisors, administrators

BaCE, Representation thru Radical Resistance: Native American Literature and Language

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Register for Representation thru Radical Resistance: Native American Literature and Language

In this session, WSU Vancouver Native American Programs Director Julian Ankney guides you through an interactive session to inspire and empower you to use Native American literature, while also learning culturally responsive terms to respectfully engage with Indigenous concepts inside the classroom.

  • Facilitator: Julian Ankney
  • This session recognizes National Native American Heritage Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment required for WSU Vancouver participants
  • A Group 2 Workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU graduate students, staff, faculty, supervisors and administrators

BaCE, Exploring Culturally Safe Dialogues and Navigating with Cultural Humility

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Register for Exploring Culturally Safe Dialogues

This interactive session is a safe, brave and welcoming space for you to explore concepts of cultural safety, restorative justice and cultural humility; shifting and shared power; and their relevancy in research and scholarship, teaching, service and practice to advance health equity. You will be provided with resources and encouraged to reflect, engage in reflexivity and engage in culturally safe dialogues and cultural humility to facilitate empowerment.

  • Facilitator: Connie Nguyen-Truong
  • This workshop recognizes National Native American Heritage Month
  • A Group 2 workshop for Vancouver participants
  • College of Nursing colleagues may receive CE through College of Nursing (contact Connie Nguyen-Truong for more information)
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU students, faculty, staff, supervisors and administrators

Group 3 workshops

BaCE: Disability Etiquette

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Register for Disability Etiquette

Increase awareness about disability history, etiquette, equity and pride. You will:

  • Explore different kinds of barriers that prevent full student participation in the classroom and community. 
  • Understand the role you play in creating accessible, inclusive and welcoming environments.
  • Learn tips, etiquette and language to help increase your comfort and confidence in interacting with people with disabilities.

If you need access to the PowerPoint slides for this presentation to adjust to alternate print, contact LaRonda Zupp at laronda.zupp@wsu.edu at least two days before the workshop.

  • Facilitator: LaRonda Zupp
  • This workshop recognizes National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment strongly recommended
  • A Group 3 workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver graduate students, faculty, staff and administrators

BaCE, Accessible Documents

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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.

  • Facilitators: Scott Fraser and Michelle Eccles
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment strongly recommended
  • A Group 3 BaCE workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU faculty, staff and students

BaCE, ADA Basics: Faculty and Staff Accommodations

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Register for ADA Basics: Faculty and Staff Accommodations

This interactive workshop provides staff, faculty and supervisors with the process of accommodations, clarity about their roles and responsibilities, and resources for accommodations.

  • Facilitator: Julia Getchell
  • This workshop recognizes National Disability Employment Awareness Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI Pre-Assessment strongly recommended
  • A Group 3 BaCE Workshop
  • Location: Zoom
Who can participate:
WSU graduate students, staff, faculty and supervisors

BaCE, Universal Design for Learning

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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 and how to integrate active learning modules that help all of your students participate in ways that are the most successful for them.

  • Facilitators: Scott Fraser and Michelle Eccles
  • A Group 3 workshop
  • Prerequisite: none
  • Location: Zoom

Who can participate:
WSU graduate students, staff, faculty, supervisors and administrators

Group 4 workshops

BaCE: Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff and Faculty (New!)

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Register for Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff and Faculty

Engage in information gathering, discussion and activities to recognize and support LGBTQ+ and gender variant communities. Receive tools to create spaces of safety and allyship, as well as explore your own identity and relationship with queerness. A Safe Zone Placard will be awarded upon completion of this session.

  • Facilitators: Bari Boyd and Elisha Hardekopf
  • This session recognizes National Coming Out Day
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment strongly recommended
  • A Group 4 workshop
  • Location: CILA, Firstenburg Student Commons, Room 104

Completion of the Supporting Pronoun in the Classroom, Workplace and Everyplace Workshop and the Safe Zone Ally Training Workshop qualifies WSU Vancouver participants for the BaCE LGBTQ+ Ally Mini Certificate.

Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver graduate students, staff, faculty, supervisors and administrators

BaCE: Safe Zone Ally Training for Undergraduate Students, Part 1

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Register for Safe Zone Ally Training for Undergraduate Students

At the first of two interactive sessions, you will engage in information gathering, discussion and activities to recognize and support LGBTQ+ and gender variant communities. Receive tools to create spaces of safety and allyship, as well as explore your own identity and relationship with queerness.

Second session: 2 – 3:30 p.m. Oct. 18. A Safe Zone Placard will be awarded to those who complete both sessions.

  • Facilitators: Bari Boyd and Elisha Hardekopf
  • This session recognizes National Coming Out Day
  • A Group 4 workshop
  • Location: CILA, Firstenburg Student Commons, Room 104
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver undergraduate students

BaCE: Safe Zone Ally Training for Undergraduate Students, Part 2

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Register for Safe Zone Ally Training for Undergraduate Students

At this second session, you will continue to gather and discuss information, and participate in activities to recognize and support LGBTQ+ and gender variant communities. Receive tools to create spaces of safety and allyship, as well as explore your own identity and relationship with queerness. 

First session: 2 – 3 p.m. Oct. 11. A Safe Zone Placard will be awarded to those who complete both sessions.

  • Facilitators: Bari Boyd and Elisha Hardekopf
  • This session recognizes National Coming Out Day
  • A Group 4 workshop
  • Location: CILA, Firstenburg Student Commons, Room 104
Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver undergraduate students

BaCE, We Love Reading with Obie and Renny!

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Register for We Love Reading with Obie and Renny!

We Love Reading Group with Obie and Renny is a welcoming, supportive and brave space that features books with themes on equity, antiracism, justice, healing, belonging, joy and love.

  • Facilitators: Obie Ford III, Renny Christopher
  • This session recognizes Native American History Month
  • Prerequisite: IDI pre-assessment
  • A Group 4 workshop
  • Location: Zoom

Fall 2023 book selection

“Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America,” by Linda Villarosa, lays bare the forces in the American health care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their White counterparts. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, “Under the Skin” is necessary reading.

Who can participate:
WSU Vancouver faculty, graduate students, staff, supervisors, administration