Tools and Resources

This page is a growing list of resources to promote and encourage an inclusive culture at CCRI. If you would like to see a certain resource, please email us and we will gladly add it to this page.

2024 Equity Challenge

CCRI is taking United Way’s 2024 Equity Challenge! This initiative will help individuals and organizations in Rhode Island develop a deep and intentional understanding of, and engagement around topics surrounding equity.

Equity Challenge 2024 will explore the following topics.

• Wednesday, June 19: Justice
• Thursday, June 20: Equity
• Friday, June 21: Diversity
• Monday, June 24: Inclusion
• Tuesday, June 25: Accessibility
• Wednesday, June 26: Advocacy
• Thursday, June 27: Accomplice

Participants will choose daily, for seven days, between three options of activities and materials they can read, listen to, or view. Each option takes 30 minutes to complete.  Participants who complete the challenge will receive a certificate of recognition for your completion of the challenge.

Click Here to Register

 

Articles, Literature and Guides

• Biases and Generations Glossary
  • Terms, definitions, and examples of common biases, including a breakdown of generations.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Glossary
  • A broad scope of terms and definitions relating to DEI.
• Sex, Gender, and Identity Glossary
  • Terms and definitions relating to gender and identity.
• Microaggressions in Every Day Life
  • A list of common manifestations of microaggressions that we should be mindful of as a community .
• Say This Not That
  • A guide to help practice inclusive language.
• The DNA of the DEI
  • The slideshow created by Dr. Ronald W. Whitaker II, EdD for CCRI's 2024 Equity Centered Professional Developement Day. These slides contextualize DEI work across the country and break down how DEI work is critical for cultivating spaces of belonging and driving outcomes on college campuses.

 

DVDs and Books

• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement (DVD)
  • The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
• Tough Choices, Tough Times (Executive Summary)
  • Key findings of the book that outlines the bold and specific road map for transforming all levels of education—preschool through postsecondary education—to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing global economy.
• Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education
  • The ebook outlining how diversity work is best approached as an intellectual endeavor with a pragmatic focus on achieving results that takes an evidence-based approach to operationalizing diversity.
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
  • Social psychologist Claude Steele addresses one of the most perplexing social issues of our time: the trend of minority underperformance in higher education.

• Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

  • Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.