MyLearn Training

MyLearn, in partnership with Skillsoft, offers University of Missouri System employees and students access to courses, books, simulations, jobs aids, skills briefs and videos on diversity.

Recommendations

Different Like You: Appreciated Diversity in the 21st Century
Diversity on the Job: Diversity and You
Diversity on the Job: The Importance of Diversity and the Changing Workplace
A Manager’s Guide to Diversity, Inclusion and Accommodations

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Additional Training Resources

Age and ageism

• AARP
• Administration on Aging
• Consortium for Aging in Community
• IDEAS.TED.com, What It’s Like to Grow Old in Different Parts of the World"
• Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
  
• U.S. Department of Labor — Age Discrimination

Communication and dialogue

• American Public Square
• Crucial Conversations
  • Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
• Dialogue Institute
• Difficult Dialogues: Gender Identity Issues
• Discussions Across Differences
• Diversity and Inclusion Center Ouch! Series
• Guide to Facilitating Dialogues (PDF)
• National Intergroup Dialogue Institute

Cultural competence

• Common Purpose, Cultural Intelligence
• Harvard Business Review, "Cultural Intelligence"
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education
• National Association for Multicultural Education
• National Center for Cultural Competence
• Robert Sternberg on culture, intelligence and education
• Understanding Prejudice
• U.S. Office of Personnel Management, "The New IQ"

Disability and ableism

• AAPD
• Crip Camp, A Disability Revolution
• Kanchi employment services
• The Mighty, "5 Must Watch Ted Talks That Challenge the Way We View Disability"
• National Institutes of Health, "Understanding the Impact of Stigma on People with Mental Illness"
• National Organization on Disability
• Signs of Life, "Stereotypes and Misconceptions About Deafness,"
• TED Talks
  • "I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much"
  • "How I Learned To Communicate My Inner Life with Asperger’s"
  • "The Opportunity of Adversity"
• That Crazy Crippled Chick, "Able Privilege Checklist"
• UMKC Institute for Human Development
• The Whole Person
• World Health Organization, 2020 World Report on Disability

Economic equality

• Inequality.org
• Institute on Assets and Social Policy, "The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide (PDF)"
• NPR, "Income Inequality: Bad for Everyone"
• Pew Research Center, "5 Facts About the Minimum Wage"
• Race — The Power of an Illusion, "How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Created"
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• STEPS, "Poor Us – Why Poverty?"

Environmentalism and environmental justice

• Live Science — Planet Earth
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
• Project for Public Spaces
  Scientific American, The New Environmentalism Will Lead Us to Disaster
• TED Talks
  • "Let the Environment Guide our Development"
  • "Why I Must Speak Out About Climate Change"

 Faith and religion

• Anti-Defamation League
  Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Religious Freedom USA
• Freedom House
• The International Association for Religious Freedom
• World Faiths Center for Religious Experience and Study, Inc.
  Ted Talk, "Make Jokes Not Bombs"

Feminism

• Feminist Majority Foundation
• Huffpost, Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks discuss back womanhood, politics and media
• IDEAS.TED.com, "The Power of “and”: How Women Can Be Fierce and Feminine" by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Ted Talks
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "We Should All Be Feminists"
  • Caroline Casey, "Looking Past Limits"
  • Alaa Murabit, "What My Religion Really Says About Women"
  • Minna Salami, "To Change the World, Change Your Illusions"

Human Rights and xenophobia

• American Society for Public Administration, "Xenophobia, the Other Face of Racism"
• Human Rights First
  • "More Action Needed to Address Xenophobic Violence"
• UNESCO
  • "Fostering Rights, Inclusion and Nondiscrimination"

Immigration

• NumbersUSA, Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
• Scholastic
  • Immigration Data
  • Meet Young Immigrants
• TED Talk
  • Hyeonseo Lee, "My Escape from North Korea"
  • Jose Antonio Vargas, "Actions Are Illegal, Never People"
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

LGBTQIA+

• Gender Identity Project, "Transgender Basics"
• Health and Human Services, annual reports on LGBTQI+ health
• ILGA World
• ILGYO
• Immigration Equality
• OutRight Action International
• TransParent 
• Ted Talk
  • L.Z. Granderson, "The Myth of the Gay Agenda"

Masculinity

• The ManKind Project
• Man Up Campaign

Social identity development

• Wayne F. St-Amour, "Change: Towards an Enlarged Perspective of Situated Learning Theory"
• Ted Talk
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "The Danger of a Single Story"

Social justice

• The BBC Prison Study
• Learning for Justice
• The New Yorker, Annals of Justice
• Social Justice Training Institute
• So Just
• World Trust

Unconscious bias

• American Psychologist, "Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life — Implications for Clinical Practice (PDF)"
• Canon, A Portrait Session with a Twist
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, "A Little More Every Day: How You Can Eliminate Bias in Your Own Classroom," by Kathleen Tarr
• Cracking the Codes, Unconscious Bias
• CRM Learning, "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins"
• Delta Concepts Consulting, "Unconscious Bias Exercise"
• ESPN U, "Blind Date"
• Facebook's Managing Unconscious Bias
• Kirwan Institute 
• Life at Google, "Making the Unconscious Conscious"
• McKinsey and Company, "Addressing Unconscious Bias"
• MTV News, "If Microaggressions Happened to White People"
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes"
• Project Implicit
• Talks at Google, "Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments” with Howard Ross
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• Understanding Prejudice
• Wiley, "Microaggressions In Everyday Life"
• Mark Williams highlights
  • The 10 Lenses
  • Your Comfort Zone
  • Privilege
• Yassmin Abdel-Magied “Beat Your Bias, Question Your First Impression” Ted Talk

See also the Anti-Racism Resources List