Upcoming GateKeepers Workshop
Would you like to participate in an upcoming GateKeepers workshop? The GateKeepers Workshop Series was developed to equip each member of our community with the intercultural skills that are necessary for working in a diverse and inclusive environment. To date, more than 1,200 faculty, staff and students have participated in the program. Click here to learn about some of their experiences.
Registration for GateKeepers 1, 2 and 3 is now available, and we welcome you to sign up today. If you have already completed the workshop series, please share this email with others and/or register for a refresher.
GateKeepers 1: Enhancing Our Community Through Inclusion
(Lunch & Learn)
March 27 | Reynolda Hall 301, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Register at https://pdc.wfu.edu/event/7590/
GateKeepers 2: Cross-Cultural Conflict & Dialogue
February 27 | Benson University Center 401, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
April 11 | Benson University Center 401, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Register at http://pdc.wfu.edu/events/769/
GateKeepers 3: Contact Theory & Dialogue
(Lunch & Learn)
April 21 | Reynolda Hall 301, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Register at http://pdc.wfu.edu/event/7591/
Categories: Faculty News, Staff News
WFU honors Gatekeepers
On June 10, members of the Wake Forest community gathered in the Magnolia Room for the Gatekeepers Recognition Ceremony. The event honored 109 faculty and staff that have completed the first three workshops in the Gatekeepers Workshop Initiative in the 2012-2013.
Created by Shayla Herndon-Edmunds, manager of diversity education for Wake Forest, the Gatekeepers Workshop Initiative enhances participants’ cultural competence through tools and exercises that explore perception, various communication and conflict styles; value differences, stereotype threat, implicit bias, contact theory, among other phenomena that impact the engagement of faculty, staff and students on campus.
Provost Rogan Kersh and other University leaders spoke about the importance of cultural competence in building an inclusive community, while participants and internal trainers were celebrated for their efforts.
To date, more than 1,000 staff, faculty and students have attended the Gatekeepers 1 Workshop, “Enhancing Our Community Through Inclusion.”
Check the Professional Development Center’s website for Gatekeeper’s courses available in 2013-14.
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