LinkedIn Learning Starting Points

We invite all Rutgers faculty, staff, and students to commit to the process of ongoing learning, engagement, and growth related to bias disruption, inclusion building, and belonging through Rutgers LinkedIn Learning.

Learning Paths provide clustered content on concentrated themes to promote incremental but substantive growth. Paths available include:

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All;
• Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Managers; and
• Become an Inclusive Leader.

Administrative units and academic departments that utilize and complete the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All Learning Path will be better situated to begin strategic planning to meet long term equity goals. We strongly encourage academic departments and administrative units to engage and complete the learning path prior to seeking individualized consultation and support from our division.

Most courses are part of a Learning Path as noted by an asterisk (*).

Unconscious Bias (24 minutes)
Learn to identify personally held biases to begin to make more thoughtful hiring, promotion, and interpersonal decisions in your everyday life. *Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All

Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences (40 minutes)
Through this course, learners explore biases and their impact on individual and organizational practices, recognize biases in interpersonal and organizational capacities, and gain consciousness on how to interrupt and stop bias in decision-making processes.
*Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All; Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Managers; Become an Inclusive Leader

Inclusive Mindset for Committed Allies (26 minutes)
Learn about how to support people who experience discrimination and oppression with an inclusive mindset. This session emphasizes the need to be have the bravery to act, humility to recognize all that you might not know or to receive feedback, and perseverance in taking action to disrupt prejudice, bias, discrimination, and oppression.

Skill for Inclusive Conversations (53 minutes)
Develop the knowledge and practical techniques needed to engage colleagues in meaningful and authentic conversations about race, gender, religion, and potentially polarizing topics.
*Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All; Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Managers

Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues (55 minutes)
Learn principles and strategies that can help you have more productive, meaningful conversations about diversity.
*Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All; Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Managers; Become an Inclusive Leader

Cultivating Cultural Competence and Inclusion (47 minutes)
Learn the knowledge and skills to increase the ability to recognize our own cultural lenses and to recognize, navigate, and adapt across cultural differences that we encounter.