An important function of the Multicultural Resource Center is to provide educational trainings and workshops for faculty, staff and students. In most cases, trainings and workshops are offered by request. This way we can carefully construct them to meet the specific needs of the given department, office, or group of students. In some cases, MRC collaborates with other offices such as the Ombusperson and Oberlin College Dialogue Center to provide workshops. We also sponsor and co-sponsor workshops and trainings by invited academic/activist facilitators during the year. Examples of these kinds of educational moments include, but are not limited to:

Workshops Facilitated by MRC Staff

• Pedagogy workshop (co-facilitated with the Ombudsperson) on facilitating difficult/controversial issues in the classroom for First-Year Seminar faculty.
  
  
• Goals setting workshop for the LEADS Program of the Bonner Center for Service and Learning.
  
  
• Oberlin College Dialogue Center's Social Justice Institute for select first-year students as guest facilitators.
  
  
• Annual August training on diversity and multicultural issues and concerns for new and returning student staff in the Department of Residential Education.
  
  
• Student Senate workshop on safe space issues.
  
  
• Diversity workshop (co-facilitated with the Ombudsperson) for the community partners of the Bonner Center for Service and Learning.
  
  
• LGBTQ Issues and Athletics workshop for Athletics Department coaches and professional staff.
  
  
• Workshop on race for a varsity athletics team – players and coaches.
  
  
• Class discussions for the ENTR 100: Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Leadership course – fall 2007 and spring 2008.
  
  
• Workshop on the current state of LGBT issues and concerns at Oberlin College for alumni during the Oberlin Lambda Alumni reunion.
  
  
• Workshop on trans/gender issues and support efforts at Oberlin College for parents and family during Parents and Family Weekend.
  
  
• Workshops for national Bonner’s Scholars Program institute on diversity.
  
  
• Collaborating with Residential Education professional staff to model social justice programming for new and returning student staff in Residential Education.
  
  
• Social justice workshops for the A.L.L.I.E.S. Program of the Bonner Center for Service and Learning.
  
  
• Putting the “I” in the Middle of RacIsm workshop for student groups.
  
  
• Understanding the Intersections of Oppression.
  
  

Workshops by MRC Sponsored or Co-sponsored Facilitators:

• Anti-Oppression and Sexual/Dating Violence Workshops (with special attention to LGBT and Queer of Color contexts) with My Name is My Own Series speaker Norma Timbang.
  
  
• Writers workshop with Latino/a Heritage Month and My Name is My Own Series performance artist Adelina Anthony.
  
  
• Social justice workshop for graduate students in the MSW program at Case Western Reserve University.
  
  
• Writing workshop with My Name is My Own Series and Black History Celebration performance artist Hanifah Walidah.
  
  
• Series of three workshops for faculty in AAST and CAST facilitated by visiting faculty around creative structural models of American Studies programs and pedagogical discussions on the teaching race and sexuality.
  
  
• Dis/ability Studies workshop with doctoral candidate and activist Lezlie Frye and co-sponsored with the ELC.
  
  
• Workshops on coalition building across communities of color by Johanna Almiron, OC’00.
  
  
• Discussion for faculty and staff about Teach for America by Oberlin College alumni of color and Teach for America staff.
  
  
• Panel and workshop for students, especially students of color, applying to Teach for America by Oberlin College alumni of color and Teach for America staff.
  
  
• Workshop titled “Instant Autobiography: Early Clues to a Queer Life” for staff and students by Ellen Orleans, OC’07
  
  
• Workshop titled “Oberlin Lambda History Project for students with Joey Plaster, OC’00.
  
  
• LGBT Organizing and Activism Workshop with Karen Krahulik as part of National Coming Out Week programming.
  
  
• “Translating Academics, Activism, and Service into a Career Path” facilitated by four young alumni as part of the My Name is My Own Series.