Broadening Participation

SpectrumX is committed to encouraging these members of underrepresented groups to pursue careers in the SpectrumX field. The goal is to grow intercultural competencies throughout the Center and broaden participation of students, faculty, and professionals from underrepresented groups in all Center activities.

The working group has developed three tracks to help achieve its goals: 

Assessing and evaluating Intercultural Competence: The Broadening Participation Working Group administers  the Intercultural Development Inventory to all members of the SpectrumX Center. This tool helps each member understand their level of intercultural competence and provides recommendations to improve.

Improving Intercultural Competence through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education: The Broadening Participation Working Group hosts a number of DEI workshops on topics such as the journey to inclusive cultures, understanding bias, racism and sexism, understanding microaggressions and interrupting racism and sexism. Additionally, a host of DEI resources are available to SpectrumX team members in an internally managed repository. This repository includes links to books, articles, organizations, videos and podcasts. The group continues to research and offer other relevant learning opportunities to the team members.

Fostering Partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions to attract diverse faculty, student and staff talent: The Center is working with key stakeholders  to develop mutually beneficial relationships with select Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), to bring students, faculty, and staff into conversations and research spaces created by the Center to increase representation in SpectrumX research areas and related areas of the workforce.