Learning and Development

Learning and development include educational opportunities for TCU community members to explore perspectives and concepts that increase their awareness on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion. By enhancing learning opportunities, Student Affairs assist in improving the overall campus community by encouraging inclusive environments. If you’d like to learn more about any of the student focused programs below or discover additional initiatives, please go to the department link highlighted and utilize the contact form.

Customer Service with a DEI Lens
Student Identity & Engagement work with University Unions student staff to understand customer service with an inclusion focus.
University Unions

Career Development
Career consultations, career events, and experiential opportunities are offered to all students and graduates with focus on connections with employers for internships and full time employment.
Center for Career & Professional Development

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging for Students
Diversity orientation introduces students to concepts within the diversity and inclusion space including inclusion, power, privilege, identities, and communication. In addition, strategies related to ally behavior, self-care, and creating inclusive spaces are discussed. The course communicates and provides tools to help meet expectations of being an engaged member of a diverse and inclusive community.
Counseling & Mental Health Center

Fraternity & Sorority Training
Fraternity & Sorority Leaders receive training on DEI related topics and TCU resources during Officer Training Day and Rho Gamma (Recruitment Counselors) Training.
Fraternity & Sorority Life

Housing Cultural Connector Training
Cultural Connectors receive Culture Creation training where student staff dive into how culture is created in a residence hall, how it intersects with existing cultures, and how to create relationships of care in residential communities. Additionally, through various DEI programming, they learn tools to create successful diversity programming in residence halls.
Housing & Residence Life

Housing Hall Director Training
Housing Hall Directors receive DEI related trainings including Facilitating Conversations Around Race & Positions of Power (Learn skills in order to facilitate difficult conversations around cultural difference and identity experiences), Student Access & Accommodations (Focuses on areas of neurodiversity, accommodations, and accessibility residents), and OIE/ Title IX (Educates on areas of protected identities, and the systematic response at TCU if oppression occurs due to one of those identities).
Housing & Residence Life

Housing Student Staff Training
Housing Student Staff receive DEI related training including: Intercultural Development Inventory Training – Staff take the IDI assessment and learn about their intercultural selves.
Inclusion – An introduction to Diversity and Inclusion through storytelling. A way for new student staff to dive into unconscious bias and create more inclusive spaces.
DEI – Discover Your Identities- learn the identities you bring to the spaces around you to best serve others.
Pronoun Training – Creating safe spaces in the residence halls through inclusive language.
Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions Training – Training around unconscious bias and microaggressions.
Housing & Residence Life

LGBTQIA+ Foundations for Students
Introductory workshop to educate students on the identities in the LGBTQIA+ community, acknowledge realities with statistics of harms to the LGBTQIA+ community, and utilize discussion and tips as tools to prevent future discrimination and harassment.
Counseling & Mental Health Center

Orientation Leaders Training
Orientation Leaders receive various trainings including: Navigating Identity – Training includes social identity overview, focus on identity’s role in 0rientation/FYE, assessing others’ identities, learning about unique student populations, sense of belonging and matter versus marginality.
Resource Training – Learn about the services and resources provided by the Student Identity & Engagement Office.
Students on the Spectrum – Overview of students whom identify on the spectrum and strategies for supporting them.
Student Success

Service-Learning Webinars
Workshops are provided to encourage students to explore and address social injustice in their disciplines.
Service Learning & Academic Initiatives

SGA Diversity & Inclusion Training
Required training for organization presidents to help them understand their own identities and begin looking at their organization’s practices from a DEI lens.
Student Involvement and Traditions

Student Identity and Engagement & LGBTQ+ Resources Office Trainings
Accomplice Training
Addressing Cultural Complexities in Medical Education
Allies Training
Atlantic Slave Trade Experience
Civil Rights Bus Tour Experience
Creating Inclusive and Supportive Campus Organizations
Cultural Appreciation vs. Appropriation
Cultural Awareness and Belonging
Cultural Cuisine
DEI 101
Dr. MLK Jr. Day of Service
Identity Based Leadership
Identity and Purpose
Intentional Dialogue Training Part 1 and Part 2
Intersectionality
Interrupt the Systems: Anti-Racism 101
LGBTQIA+ 101
Navigating Imposter Syndrome in College
Productive Communication Skills
Pronoun Fluency
Socialization and Liberation
Team Dynamics: True Colors and Golden Circle
Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions
Unity Celebration
Intercultural Center

Student Leaders 
Training to discuss, develop and demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures; engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.
Campus Recreation & Wellness Promotion

Wellness Education Workshops
Through Wellness Education, TCU empowers a university wide culture of wellness for all students. Research and experience verify the correlation between a student’s good health, healthy lifestyle, and academic and personal success.  Wellness Education offers primary prevention programming through collaboration with the university community, including suicide prevention training, sleep hygiene instruction, meditation, stress management workshops, healthy relationship education, and more. Participants learn how to best engage in one’s personal path toward wellness while engaging with others.
Campus Recreation & Wellness Promotion