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Learn for Change. Lead for Equity.

In our constantly evolving workplaces, we need leaders who advocate for their uniqueness, opinions, and equal opportunities. Learn how to champion a modern approach to cultural diversity for your employees or educational professionals. Compare today’s need for diversity and cultural awareness to historical inequality in the workplace and schools. Understand how your own personal opinions can affect your leadership style and how cultural interpretation and perspectives in general integrate with social justice and action plans. Use reputable standards such as the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to assess your workplace’s status and growth. Learn how to improve core values and responses to employees’ needs using the Guiding Principles of Cultural Proficiency. Prepare yourself to lead others into an environment designed for access and opportunity and set your employees up for success.

NOTE: We can bring this program to your organization, or deliver it as a cohort. To express interest, submit the request for information form.

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    Est. Tuition $1,200

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    Learning Format Online

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    Duration 6 months *

    *Duration times can vary, talk to your advisor for more information.
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    Total Units 6 Units

  • CEOs and CFOs
  • Managers/Supervisors
  • Human Resource management professionals
  • Superintendents and assistant superintendents
  • Equity administrators
  • County office administrators
  • Educational professionals who help with LCAP implementation
  • School board members

  • Differences and similarities with historical inequality in the workplace
  • Methods to examine policies and practices against the impressions and results of action plans and used approaches
  • Standards to use for analysis and policy development for cultural proficiency, and equal opportunity and barrier assessment for marginalized and privileged individuals
  • Approaches to continued equity assessment and improvement in policies, practices, and leadership

We’re here to design custom programs tailored to your professional development needs. Trainings can take place online, at a facility of your choice, or at UCR University Extension. To express interest, please connect with our  Corporate Education & Custom Programs team.

Required Courses

Course Formats
Course Schedules are Subject to Change
Required (6.00 Units )
 
WinterSpringSummerFall
Cultural Competence for LeadersThis course is an introduction to the foundations of a cultural proficiency framework.
3.00 Units
Leadership for Equity and Social JusticeStudents will create a Social Justice Action Plan using an equity audit to uncover, understand, and change inequities that are internal to organizations in four areas: age equity, gender equity, racial equity, and accessibility.
3.00 Units
 

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