Education & Resources
The Pride Center offers educational opportunities about LGBTQIA2S+ identities and experiences for faculty, staff, and students.
Panel Discussions & Presentations
The Pride Center offers a variety of educational programs by request for instructors, staff, students organizations and departments.
- Presentations for departments or units
- Lectures, workshops, and classroom presentations for academic programs
- Student Panel Discussions on LGBTQIA2S+ experiences at UND.
Request an educational program by contacting us at UND.pridecenter@UND.edu
Professional Development
The Pride Center offers educational sessions to engage faculty and staff in topics and conversations that impact the queer and trans community. Sessions offered through UND Teaching Transformation & Development Academy. Past sessions include:
- Queer and Trans Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice
- New Guidelines on Supporting Trans and Nonbinary People in Higher Education
- LGBTQ+ Student Retention
- The Current State of Afffairs for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Higher Education
- Queer History of UND: Implications for Future Practice
Policy & Practice Resources
- Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals Policy & Practice Recommendations
- Advising LGBTQ+ Students in International Education
- Supporting LGBT International Students
- Movement Advancement Project
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- Columbia University Center for Career Education
Why not LGBTQ+ Ally Training / Safe Zone?
The Pride Center has made the intentional choice to no longer offer LGBTQ+ Ally Training for a variety of reasons. This decision aligns with better practices, trends in LGBTQIA2S+ higher education, and community-based learning.
Reasons we no longer utilize LGBTQ+ Ally Training:
- Two to three hours is not a sufficient amount of time to cover the content required for an introductory workshop.
- We have found LGBTQ+ Ally Training often becomes a “one-and-done" credentialing model that limits ongoing growth and development.
- Ally Training and Safe Zone programs are often performative.
- Ally Trainings and Safe Zone programs alike are designed to credential “allies” and, while allies are important to our community, “ally” is not an identity term. Instead of relying on LGBTQIA2S+ placards to communicate acceptance and safety, we shift our efforts to promote action-focused allyship.
- We strive to promote lifelong learning; best practices and new directions in supporting LGBTQIA2S+ communities that are rapidly changing, a brief one-time, two to three-hour workshop does not adequately represent this value.