NCBI@UGA hold campus workshops to build inclusive environment
The National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) at UGA celebrated its one year anniversary on campus this spring. The organization aims to promote awareness and increase campus community members’ capacity to address difficult issues of diversity. NCBI@UGA is an affiliate of the National Coalition Building Institute, a non-profit leadership training organization founded in 1984 to work with colleges, universities and local agencies to build inclusive environments and eliminate prejudice. The NCBI@UGA campus team, led by Talmadge C. Guy and Megan Horan, consists of 25 faculty, students and staff trained as facilitators to provide diversity workshops that focus on increasing cultural competence, promoting collaboration and partnerships, and building effects of relationships within and across group identities. During the 50th anniversary celebration of the desegregation of UGA, the team conducted a workshop for more than 50 participants representing a cross-section of the UGA community. The NCBI welcoming diversity/prejudice reduction workshop is an interactive, participatory program designed to promote awareness and increased sensitivity to the many similarities and differences among individuals and groups in society. NCBI@UGA is sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity. For more information, contact OID at 706-583-8195 or email.