Signature Events
Cultural Spring Break Trip
- Engage with diverse community partners to learn how their organization is addressing equity.
- Provide support to local nonprofit organizations.
- Develop an appreciation for the history and culture in the region to understand and communicate equity issues in higher education.
Gateways Pre-Orientation
A comprehensive pre-orientation program is an experience open to all students. It is intended to touch on social and academic topics related explicitly to historically underrepresented populations to build community and ensure a successful transition into the UT community. First-year and transfer students have the chance to begin their Spartan Ready journey early by connecting with their peers, faculty and staff around a specialized topic before their first semester at UT.
History and Heritage Months
- Hispanic Heritage
- LGBTQIA+
- Native American Heritage
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Black History
- Women's History
- Asian Pacific American
Life After UT
MLK DEI Teach-In
- Understand the impact of DEI in the UT community.
- Engage in intersectional and meaningful dialogue.
- Build community across differences.
- Cultivate a culture of equity and agency.
National First-Generation Student Week
ODEI Community Retreat
- Identify their intersecting identities, experiences, and biases and how they relate to concepts of privilege and oppression.
- Enhance awareness around issues of social justice.
- Participate in activities that build cultural competence and community dialogue.
- Understand their role in cultivating strategies to build a positive and inclusive campus community.
- Develop partnerships for sustained community change.
Spartan Inclusion Series
- Level 1: Intro to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Participants engage in a foundational conversation on key DEI concepts and terms.
- Level 2: Navigating Difficult Conversations - Participants gain tools and strategies to dialogue across differences.
- Level 3: Power and Privilege - Participants engage in an interactive discussion and analysis of systems and structures of advantage and oppression.
- Level 4: Allyship to Action - Participants collaborate in a community goal-setting and action plan for disruption and allyship.