Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
The University Student Union is committed to supporting students’ educational goals through inclusive and anti-racist programs, services and activities. Through collaboration with students, faculty and staff from various campus entities, DEI is dedicated to providing spaces where Matadors can come together to learn and engage in conversations regarding race, anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusivity.
Diversity & Equity Innovation Grant (DEIG)
The DEIG is a partnership between the University Student Union (USU) and the University Counseling Services (UCS). The USU and UCS received funding from the President’s office to provide several programs that address systemic change, create community awareness, campus wide transformation, reflection and transformation around the impacts of injustices on students. The DEIG continues to funds important programs that make it possible to have impactful conversations.
Healing Spaces
Our Healing Spaces are intended to create safe space for communities to come together to heal, be in conversation with one another and create support and action items for matters impacting members of the CSUN community. We have held various events in collaboration with academic departments and student organizations.
USU Work Teams
Internal USU Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work Team
Provides guidance and support to the University Student Union on creating an inclusive workplace experience for members of the organization. Assist on issues of organization climate, inclusive practices and overall, equitable experiences for staff and board members.
Diversity and Inclusion Committee (USU Board of Directors)
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will serve as an advisory committee to the USU Board of Directors offering a critical analysis of how the USU can further enhance inclusivity within its policies, practices and programming efforts.
Resource Centers
The DREAM Center is a welcoming resource center that provides resources and services to undocumented students, mixed status families, staff, faculty, allies and future undocumented students while fostering a more inclusive campus community. DREAM stands for Dreamers, Resources, Empowerment, Advocacy and Mentorship.
Contact
(818) 677-7069
dreamcenter@csun.edu
The Pride Center supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, faculty and staff through programming and educational outreach to improve the campus climate for LGBTQIA+ individuals as well as advocate for the respect and safety of all members of the campus community.
Contact
(818) 677-4355
pride@csun.edu
The Veterans Resource Center (VRC) mission is to assist CSUN students as they transition from military service to academic success. The VRC promotes the academic, personal and professional development of student veterans, reservists, members of the National Guard and their dependents through supportive services, resources and community building events.
Contact
(818) 677-4672
vrc@csun.edu
Anti-Racism Resource List
Find helpful allyship articles, training workshops, law enforcement alternatives, history and social justice books, anti-racism videos and other resources.
- 97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice — Corinne Shutack
- FBI Warned of White Supremacists in Law Enforcement 10 Years Ago. Has Anything Changed? — Kenya Downs, PBS
- White Privilege Resource Guide — University of San Fransisco
- We Can End Police Violence in America — Campaign Zero
- Resources for Educators — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
- A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Certain Age — Dax Devlon Ross, NPQ
- Next Time Someone Tells You “All Lives Matter,” Show Them This Cartoon — German Lopez, VOX
- Posting on Social Media Is Not Activism — Casey Bond, Huffington Post
- Want to Have Better Conversations about Racism with Your Parents? Here’s How — Sarah McGammon, NPR
- Fluke Fluker, CSUN alum and Co-Founder/ President of The Village Nation will include this in an upcoming webinar on how to interact with law enforcement. For more information, contact info@thevillagenation.com or visit thevillagenation.com
- Unconscious Bias Training — contact Marcy DeVeaux or Del Williams
- Constructive Bystander Training
- There is power in our thumbs! Let’s take to Twitter and demand that LA City Council adopt a People’s Budget and reject the mayor’s proposal, which seeks to spend 54% of the City’s general fund on LAPD. Follow @blmla and #PeoplesBudgetLA and go to peoplesbudgetla.com for sample tweets.
- CSUN Revolutionary Scholars Program
- Video on COVID 19 in jails
- We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd – Hasan Minhaj
- Why We Can’t Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Stony the Road: White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Killing Rage by Bell Hooks
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
- White Trash: The History of 400 of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Nobody: Casualties of American War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People by Civil Rights Congress (presented to the world in 1951, simultaneously by Paul Robeson in New York and William L. Patterson to the UN in Paris)
- Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall
- Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It by Charlamagne tha God
- The Great White Hoax
- I am A Man — Media Education Foundation
- White Like Me — Tim Wise
- The Souls of Black Girls — Daphne Valerius
- On White Privilege — Tim Wise
- How Racism Harms White Americans — Prof. John Bracey
- Not Just a Game: Power, Politics, and American Sports — Chris Boulton, Dave Zirin, Jason Young, Jeremy Earp
- The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence & The Cultivation of Fear — Jeremy Earp, Michael Morgan, Scott Morris, Sut Jhaly
- Pride Denied: Homonationalism and the Future of Queer Politics
- Robin DiAngelo on "White Fragility" — Amanpour and Company, PBS
- White Fragility — Seattle Channel
- 21 Anti-Racism Videos to Share with Kids — Jeanne Croteau, We Are Teachers
- Addressing Harm Accountability & Healing — Critical Resistance
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, & the Criminalization of Blackness — The Abusable Past
- Liberatory Design Resource Collection — Standford University
- Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism — Kathleen Osta, Hugh Vasquez, National Equity Project
- The Groundwatwer Approach — Racial Equity Institute
- Liberating Structures Bookstore
- NSFR Connections — National School Reform Faculty
- The Bell Hooks Institute
- Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence? — Brittney Cooper, TIME
- Race in the US: Herstory — Treva Lindsey, Aljazeera
- America to Me: Real Talk
- 20 Books for 2020: A Reading List on Race in America — Kyle Westaway, Forbes
- 28 Books That Talk About Race — Dianca London Potts, Read It Forward
- Educational Books on Fighting Racism — BookBub
- Confronting Systemic Racism Starts from the Top — Gary Burnison, KornFerry
- Talking About Race — National Museum of African American History & Culture
- 7 Ways to Take Action on Systemic Racism — Gary Burnison, KornFerry
- Anti-Racism Resources — Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein
- Black Lives Matter Resources
- Defying white Supremacy to Find True Freedom — Layla Saad, The Woke Lab
- 7 Ways Corporate Leaders Can Address D&I Right Now — Andres Tapia, Ayana Parsons, Jean-Marc Laouchez, Alina Poloskaia, KornFerry
- Empathy by Zoom — Jean-Marc Laouchez, Andres Tapia, KornFerry
- Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death is…A Lot — Shenequa Golding
- Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity — Ben Hecht, HBR