During Fall 2022, URGE will invite workplace leaders to a Zoom discussion where URGE leaders will advocate for compensation and/or recognition of pod members for their role in developing anti-racist policies and resources. We will also seek to understand the barriers to recognition and compensation of work done to increase belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Pod leaders will share the contact information of their workplace leaders. URGE will then email and invite leaders to attend a live Zoom session with DEI experts to discuss and identify strategies that create active and effective anti-racist collaborations among groups of individuals at various professional levels and advocate for compensation and or recognition due to URGE commitment. 

Once the leadership sessions end, registered pods will have a minimum of 8 weeks to refine their deliverable. URGE will offer some activities to help facilitate the refinement of deliverables. Pods can select the activities that best help them. Pods that want to participate in all activities can create podlets to distribute the workload, reducing the time commitment for each participant and ensuring that participants continue to focus on other professional roles/graduate courses.

Please register by October 15, 2022.

We anticipate through Fall 2022. We will conduct the sessions and share findings so that pods can be aware of the information before attempting to refine their policies and resources. Additionally, we would also like to advocate for pods regarding recognition, compensation, and the potential to teach courses related to the URGE curriculum.

This is up to pods! Do what works best for yourselves and workplaces. Pods can continue working or take a break.

We need to conduct more research and recognize the potential roadblocks to implementing policies. While we have used research of others/personal experiences/ knowledge of our institutions to design the policies, we would like to also consult with leaders to understand potential roadblocks to implementation as well as consult others working in this area with more experience to ensure that these policies produce more solutions and positive actions as opposed to harm.

After the leadership session ends, we will provide a variety of activities to help pods improve their deliverables. Pods can choose which activities to participate in and when. We hope to provide as much flexibility so pods can design their engagement based on where they are in the process, what their pods needs, how many members are involved, etc. We suggest that pods do their best to produce the most robust sets of deliverables. We will ask for the finalized deliverables in Summer 2023.

Each pod that continues will receive a badge of recognition. We will also recognize pods that are not continuing through the official refinement process but are still making significant progress in designing, implementing, and assessing anti-racist policies and resources for their workplaces. New drafts of deliverables and any progress reports will also be included on the website.

Please update us with your progress, which we will post on your page. Share your updates here. We also suggest that you keep tabs on the program and the materials we put out, then identify which ones may be relevant to where you were. You might find that there are things that could have enriched a former step, which you may use to revise your current plans, or you may find that you have ideas for the program or can inform us of challenges that other pods, who have not progressed as far your pod, may expect to face. This way, the program remains flexible, and we learn from each other.

Yes.  Provide all updates here.

The decision should be made by the pod members. If the pod decides to accept the member, share the updated list here.

Yes. Only members of the URGE team will have access to the questions.

Yes. At the end of the sessions, the URGE team will compose a report to be published and distributed.