Education & Resources
The Pride Center offers educational opportunities about LGBTQIA2S+ identities and experiences for faculty, staff, and students.
Critical Conversations
Critical Conversations is a Pride Center initiative to engage faculty and staff in topics and conversations that impact the queer and trans community. Sessions offered through UND Teaching Transformation and Development Academy. Past sessions include:
- Queer & Trans Inclusive Pedagogy & 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
Department, Unit, Division Support
The Pride Center director offers support for departments, units, and divisions that are developing inclusive and equitable processes, practices, and policies for LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Reach out to the director to request a meeting to further discuss how the Pride Center can support.
LGBTQIA2S+ Online Learning
Online learning modules are available for you to expand your knowledge and develop an understanding of LGBTQIA2S+ terminology, identities, experiences, and help you gain skills to engage in allyship. Access videos with UND log-in credentials.
Queer & Trans History: 1900s - Present Day
Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ People Part 1
Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ People Part 2
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.