The CSU Equity Champion designation is a University designation that staff and faculty can earn by completing a series of workshops or earning a Professional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate. Equity Champions are empowered to take what they’ve learned over the course of the program and use it to develop sustainable equity and inclusion efforts at CSU.

Benefits of Becoming an Equity Champion

Equity Champions are not expected to be DEI experts, but participants will be exposed to topics, definitions, and opportunities for enhanced cross-cultural understanding, awareness, and dialogue. Champions have committed time, energy, and willingness to engage in growth and learning around these topics and are committed to continuing that growth throughout their time at CSU and beyond.

Equity Champions will also use their designation to serve as the following:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advocates and allies on departmental hiring committees
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion council and committee members
• Selected Diversity, Equity and Inclusion related work throughout the University

How to Become an Equity Champion

To earn the CSU Equity Champion designation, staff and faculty must submit a form confirming the fulfillment of the training series:

• Leveraging Difference
• Power, Privilege and Society
• Bias in Action
• Allyship and Solidarity Across Identities

Session Details:

• 4 half-day sessions
• In-person
• Lecture, activity, and dialogue used to engage participants. No required reading.
• Recommend that they are taken in order, but not required.
• Must attend all workshops to obtain Equity Champion designation.