Pathways to Success: Wellness and Support​

For Students and Staff

• Addressing Systemic Racism
• Affinity Groups
• Affinity Group for Asian/American Students
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
• Asian Pacific American Resource Center
• Association of Multcultural Scientists
• Aurora Center
• Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing
• Bias Response and Referral Network
• BIPOC Mental Health Collective
• Black Graduate and Professional Students Association (BGAPSA
• Center of American Indian and Minority Health
• Center for Spirituality and Healing: How to Deal with Fear and Anxiety
• Center for Women in Medicine and Science(CWIMS)
• Community of Scholars
• Council for the Advancement of Underrepresented Scientists and Engineers(CAUSE)
• Directory of Multicultural Resources & Services
• Disability Resource Center
• Diversity of Community Practice(DoCP)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Empowering Women in Science
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Programs Office
• Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life
• Gopher Equity Project
• Graduate School Diversity Office
• Graduate Students of Color Alliance (GSOCA)
• Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy(IDEA)
• International Student and Scholar Services
• LGBTQ+ Resources
• Medical School Diversity and Inclusion
• Medical School DEI programs
• Mental Health Resources
• Minority Affairs and Diversity
• MN Queer Science
• Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence(MCAE)
• Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
• Office for Equity and Diversity
  • OED Education Program and Resources
  • OED Resources for Students
  • UMN Pride
• Office of Biomedical Graduate Research, Education & Training(BGREAT)
• Office of Professional Development
• The Queer Graduate and Professional Student Association (QGPA)
• Safe Campus Resource
• School of Public Health Key Resources
• Society of Women Engineers(SWE)
• Staff Advancing Diversity and Inclusion (SADI)
• Student Conflict Resolution Center
• University Women of Color
• U of M Twin Cities Mental Health Resources
• Women’s Center
• Women in Science and Engineering(WISE)

For Faculty

• Affinity Groups
• BIPOC Mental Health Collective
• Center for Spirituality and Healing: How to Deal with Fear and Anxiety
• Center for Educational Innovation Teaching Resources – Anti-Racism Resources for Higher Ed
• Center for Educational Innovation Teaching Resources –Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed
• Faculty Fighting Racism, created by the Graduate School Diversity Consultation TeamMental Health Resources
• International Student and Scholar Services
• OED Resources for Faculty and Staff
• OED Education Program and Resources
• Safe Campus Resource
• U of M Diversity Community of Practice
• UMD Campus Climate Website

• Twin Cities University and Community Resources

• ACCESS Press - Minnesota's Disability Community News Source
• Addiction-Treatment.com(GLBT focused)
• Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans
• Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage
• Directory of Multicultural Resources & Services
• Disability.gov
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, Leadership (IDEAL) Professional Development at the Science Museum of Minnesota
• Minnesota State Council on Disability
• Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
• System of Technology to Achieve Results (STAR Program)

• Annual Biomedical Research Conference For Minority Students
• Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty
• Black In Immuno
• Leading Edge Symposium
• National Institutes of Health Research Education Program
• National Organization on Disability (NOD)
• National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals(NOGLSTP)
• North Star STEM Alliance
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
• SITC Women in Cancer Immunotherapy (WIN) Leadership Institute

  The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) presents the SITC Women in Cancer Immunotherapy
  Network (WIN) Leadership Institute. The program seeks to empower emerging female leaders in cancer
  immunotherapy. To meet the needs of women in the field seeking professional development opportunities,
  this year’s WIN Leadership Institute will be held both in person in Chicago, IL at the Fairmount Hotel on Sept.
  28–29, 2023, and also held virtually on Aug. 9–10, 2023. Registration is free to accepted applicants. Apply
  here for one of these opportunities.

Articles and Books:

• A Leadership Position We Aren’t Prepared For. By Jen Heemstra, Charles Allen Thomas Professor
  of Chemistry and chair of the Department of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis
• An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability: Intersectionality, Disability Studies, and Families of Color, Liat Ben-Moshe and Sandy Magaña, 2014
• Are Women Held to a Higher Standard in Publishing?, Sylvia Goodman, December 30, 2022, The Chronicle
• Between the world and me  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Marxism  Cedric J. Robinson
• BlindSpot: hidden biases of good people  Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
• Dying of whiteness  Jonathan M. Metzl
• Fatal invention - how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century  Dorothy Roberts
• Health Disparities at the Intersection of Disability and Gender Identity, DREDF, 2018
• How to better support Black trainees in the biomedical sciences Angeline Dukes
• How to Prevent Discrimination in Your Workplace, EmploymentLawHandbook.com
• How to Provide a Multicultural Education, published by Baylor University's online EdD program
• How we get free  Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Identifying Correlates of Peer and Faculty/Staff Sexual Harassment in US Students. Pat Frazier, Kayla Huber, Katie Lust, and Jan-Louw Kotze.
• Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption  Bryan Stevenson
• Letter from Birmingham jail  Dr. Martin Luther King
• Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor  Layla F. Saad
• Paving the way for physicians with disabilities, Stacy Weiner, 2019
• Pride in Science, Nature, 2014, 513, 297
• Radical women-only hiring policy improves diversity at Dutch university. Science, 2024
• Redefining realness  Janet Mock
• Sex bias in pain management decisions. PNAS, 2024. Additional commentary provided by Science.
• Sister outsider  Audre Lorde
• Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America  Ibram Kendi
• The blacker the berry  Wallace Thurman
• The bluest eye  Toni Morrison
• The body Is not an apology  Sonya Renee Taylor
• The condemnation of blackness  Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks,  Rebecca Skloot
• The Negro artist and the racial mountain  Langston Hughes
• The new Jim Crow  Michelle Alexander
• The Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota
• The winged seed  Li Young Lee
• Understanding Disability Bias in Medicine, Camilla Curren, 2018
• Well-read Black girl  Edited by Glory Edim
• West Indian immigrants  Suzanne Model
• What if I say the wrong thing?  Verna A Myers
• Whistling Vivaldi  Claude Steele

• White Fragility  Tobin DiAngelo

  
   

News Articles/blogs

How the biases in the back of your mind affect how you feel about race: All Things Considered (MPR News)

Burned out doctors may be more prone to racial bias: William Wan (Washington Post)

What role should race play in medicine?: Jennifer Tsai (Scientific American)

Academic medicine and Black Lives Matter - time for deep listening: Clyde W. Yancy, MD/MSc

What’s race got to do with it?: A blog by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Changing how race is portrayed in medical education - recommendations from medical students: Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, Briana Christophers, Naomi T. Nkinsi, Paul D Schumann, Elizabeth Stein

Racial disparities in NIH funding: National Institutes of Health

What Black scientists want: Virginia Gewin

100 ways white people can make life less frustrating for people of color: Kesiena Boom

100 things white people can do for racial justice: Corinne Shutack

How to improve representation in hiring and recruiting processes

Report: The Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota: a collaborative research project between the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy and the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota

For movies, videos and webinars: click here
 

Externals Websites 

Anti-racism resources for white people

How to be an anti-racist educator Dena Simmons

Culturally Connected-an online training toolkit to increase culturally responsive care delivery

Project Implicit® Harvard University

Privilege Checklist

• Accessibility Scholarships
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation
• American Association of University Women (AAUW): Fellowships
• Big Ten Academic Alliance Minority Graduate Application Fee Waiver
• Bristol-Myers Squibb UNCF E. E. Just Postgraduate Fellowship in the Life Sciences
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Community of Scholars Program 
• DOVE fellowship (for 1st yr grad students)
• Dow BEST - Building Engineering & Science Talent
• Ford Foundation
• Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
• Graduate SEED awards
• Graduate Women in Science: National Fellowship Program
• HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows Program
• Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation (ISRDI) Summer Diversity
  Fellowship Program
• Josie R. Johnson Human Rights & Social Justice Award
• List of Scholarships for First-Generation or Underrepresented Minority Students
• L'Oreal Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women in Science
• McNair Scholars Resources
• National Institutes of Health Post-Baccalaureate Training Program
• NCI:Transition Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K22)
• Office for Equity and Diversity Awards & Scholarships
• Schlumberger Foundation: Faculty for the Future
• Graduate SEED Award
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• TRIO McNair Program and Scholarships