Advisor Intervention Training: Diversity and Culture of Inclusion

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This document contains the PowerPoint presentation, the handout, and the script for an interactive theater-based training we created for inclusive graduate advising. The scripts and scenarios were drawn from a graduate student inclusion education research study conducted by FIU student researchers. We created scenarios of inequity on their basis and helped scaffold participants to be able to respond to the inequities. The Bystander Intervention process (adapted from the FIU ADVANCE team) was: Notice, Interpret, Take responsibility, Think strategically, and Act. The decision for how to act in response to the marginalization included actions which are more immediate or more delayed, and more direct or more indirect. This framework and interactive training helps graduate advisors consider the importance of responding to marginalization and inequity and a range of helpful options when doing so.