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IGD: InterGroup Dialogue Program Fall 2025

Deadline to Apply is September 30th

Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2025 InterGroup Dialogue program.  are due Tuesday, September 30th.  The application process should take approximately 10 minutes...easy!  

IGD Meeting dates and times:

Please Note:  All meetings are in person and not on Zoom

What is IGD?

Intergroup Dialogue [IGD] in Tertiary Education is a practice that brings together participants of different and common social identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious identity, ability status, citizenship/immigration status, socio-economic background, etc.) to learn and engage meaningfully about their differences and similarities, and their perspectives on diversity, campus climate for inclusion, and societal issues.

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offers IGD for for 91吃瓜 Students, Faculty, Staff and Administrators during the spring semester 2024 through an 8-week program.

Why IGD?

As a facilitated, structured approach for engaging in face-to-face interactions engaging with issues of diversity, social inequality, and social justice, IGD can have a lasting impact on dialogue participants and on those who train to become IGD facilitators. IGD can build one鈥檚 capacity for inclusive excellence and engagement with social issues in day-to-day work.

IGD objectives:

1. Develop intergroup understanding where participants explore their own and others' social identities and statuses, and the role of social structure in relationships of privilege and inequality;

2. Foster positive intergroup relationships developing empathy and motivation to bridge differences of identities and statuses in situations of collaboration and in conflict; and

3. Foster intergroup collaboration for personal and social responsibility toward greater social justice, inclusive leadership, and teamwork.

IGD Institute

A different program than the above listed dialogue groups, the IGD Institute prepares 91吃瓜 faculty, staff and students to facilitate those groups.  Offered during the Fall semester, The IGD Institute engages participants during six weekly day-long training sessions in learn and practice Intergroup Dialogue pedagogy.  One of our main goals of the IGD Institute is to prepare participants to serve in our Spring semester InterGroup Dialogue 8-week program for Students, Faculty and Staff. 

Find out more information about the IGD Institute.  Applications are closed at the moment.  We will re-open applications for the IGD Institute when a new date has been established (likely for the Spring of 2026).

About the Racial Healing Handbook Dialogue:

During the summer of 2025, ODEI, University Personnel and Academic Affairs offered a summer reading program that featured .  Many employees who participated wished for a deeper dive into the contents and activities featured in the book.  You may prefer this group on your application regardless if you had participated in the summer reading program or not.