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The equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) centered library guides are designed to give individuals resources that expand their understanding of diverse issues. The EDI library guides were created in collaboration with UW-Stout students, faculty and staff.
In UW-Stout’s Focus 2030 Strategic Plan, one of our goals is to “invest in, and ensure access to, equitable, diverse and inclusive learning, student living, and work environments that reflect our regional and global connections”.
One part of this commitment includes ensuring our faculty, staff, students and community members have access to information to assist in our continued development of a more equitable and inclusive environment. Education is only a first step to reaching this goal, and we hope each of you take the opportunity to learn something new, challenge yourself, and use the information to make the environments you work and live in more equitable and inclusive.
We recognize none of the EDI centered guides are exhaustive as our local and global landscape is ever changing. These guides are resources that will evolve over time.
We welcome recommendations to add to the guides, and we welcome challenges if you feel any resource is outdated or out of touch. Please email library@uwstout.edu with your suggestions. Every suggestion will be reviewed by several creators of these guides to ensure these resources align with UW-Stout’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
There are a great number of resources in these EDI library guides, and we recognize that can be overwhelming and make it hard to decide where to begin. We asked several faculty, staff and students a very tough question in Summer 2021 – “if you could only recommend one resource to someone interested in starting to educate themselves on equity, diversity and inclusion related subject matter, what resource would you recommend?” Below you will find the compilation of responses, providing you a place to start.
Creating Inclusive Campus Environments for Cross-Cultural Learning and Student Engagement by 
More Than Ready by
Advice and inspiration for women of colour seeking new heights of influence, from the top Latinx advisor to President Obama Women of colour are becoming more visible and more powerful than ever, achieving higher levels of success and blazing new paths for future generations. These women are pioneers, finding their own way in otherwise white-dominated arenas. As the first Latinx to direct national domestic policy issues, Cecilia Munoz knows the difficulties of getting ahead without exemplars to follow. In More than Ready, she offers readers lessons from the challenges she faced and the victories she achieved in the White House, with wise advice like. Keep your elbows sharp: Hold your ground when others seek to devalue your contribution.Defend kindness: Elevate empathy in the workplace and beyond.Leverage failure: Turn losses into gains by embracing the benefits of the experience.Full of invaluable insights about working through fear, overcoming injustices, and facing down detractors, More than Ready provides the tactical tools women of colour need to reach unprecedented levels of power and success -- without compromising who they are.
We have included some files with terminology you may hear or read during your exploration of these resources.
