Online Training
The following online courses are available for voluntary viewing.
Accessibility
- Accommodating People with Disabilities
This course introduces the fundamentals of disability discrimination law and best practices for supervisors. Note: This course is informational only and you must follow the policy and procedures outlined in ETH-152 – Reasonable Accommodations.
Health and Safety
- Staying Healthy in a Changing Environment
Staying Healthy in a Changing Environment provides employees/faculty/staff/students with practical guidance on how to protect their physical health, support their mental well-being, to work and learn effectively onsite or offsite.
- Mental Well-Being for Students
This course provides students with information to navigate personal and community mental wellness.
- Mental Well-Being for Faculty and Staff
This course provides faculty and staff with information to navigate personal and community mental wellness.
- Duty to Prevent Violence
This course teaches supervisors how to recognize and prevent workplace violence.
Title IX
- Building Supportive Communities: Clery Act and Title IX
Title IX and Clery Act Sexual Assault Training for employees.
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- Building Supportive Communities – Taking Action
Ongoing course to help support Clery Act education and training requirements.
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- Clery Act Basics
Overview of Clery Act reporting requirements.
Employment Equity
- Affirmative Action Training for Managers
As a federal contractor, UTSW is required to train supervisors on the federal laws and regulations surrounding affirmative action in employment.
- Identifying Candidates
As a federal contractor, UTSW must always hire the most qualified candidates. This course covers how to craft interview questions, what to listen for in candidates’ responses, and what to look for when evaluating candidates’ qualifications.
- Recruiting and Hiring: Percipio Training
Learn best practices for identifying and hiring the most qualified candidates for your job openings. Explore how to recruit and hire the best talent.
Optional & Voluntary Resources
- Implicit Bias Module Series: Kirwan Institute
This course will introduce you to insights about how our minds operate and help you understand the origins of implicit associations. You will also uncover some of your own biases and learn strategies for addressing them.
- Unconscious Bias in Medicine (online CME) by Stanford University School of Medicine
This CME activity provides education on unconscious bias in the academic medicine workplace. Existing research on unconscious bias will provide a science-based view of this seemingly non-science topic. Case studies with examples of unconscious bias, self-assessment opportunities, and exploring bias busting strategies will enable learners to understand how to bring the content into their own unique environments.
- Exploring Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine (AAMC)
In this video, former AAMC Chief Diversity Officer Marc A. Nivet Ed.D. interviews Howard Ross, Founder & Chief Learning Officer of Cook Ross and author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance. Dr. Nivet and Mr. Ross explore how and why diversity efforts plateau at institutions, what role unconscious bias plays in these situations, and discuss how to mitigate unconscious bias to increase the success of diversity initiatives.
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