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Culturally Responsive Advising Integration in Action Guide
How to Use This Guide: Choose a few practices to intentionally integrate into your advising work each semester. Don’t feel you need to do every practice. Depth matters more than volume.
At-Your Desk
Reflect, Become Aware, & Prepare
Intention: Help yourself enter advising spaces grounded, aware, and intentional.
Review Humboldt student data institutional report or equity gaps
Explore your positionality check-in using the Social Identity Wheel activity
Explore literature on culturally responsive advising for specific cultural groups in this literature
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Explore the language of equity in the Case Study Glossary of Words That Matter
Affirmations
My awareness strengthens my advising practice. I commit to awareness before action.
I can sit with data and reflection without defensiveness.
During Advising Sessions
Practice
Intention: Develop intentional student trust, build cultural understanding, and develop your culturally responsive communication skills.
Practice building trust and learning more about your students unique experience and perspectives using some of these Relationship Building Questions
Affirmations:
Small moments of care build lasting impact. I build trust through listening. can hold space for experiences different from my own.
After Advising Sessions
Critically Reflect
Intention: Reflect on how you could better serve this student next time and what cultural inequities are framing this student's situation.
Ask yourself advising reflection questions after at least one advising session each week
Affirmations:
I am always learning how to serve students better. Honest reflection is an act of care. Improvement is a continuous process.
Beyond Your Desk
Forge Cross-Campus Connections & Awareness
Intention: Build institutional awareness and forge connections through the ethics of care, humble inquiry, inclusive connection, and responsive action.
Meet with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a Reflection session.
Meet with 2+ Cultural Center each semester. Reach out to the center coordinator, schedule an info meeting, prepare questions, and follow through.
Asian, Desi, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and North African Center (ADPI+MENA
El Centro Académico Cultural de Humboldt
Indian Tribal & Educational Personnel Program (ITEPP)
Umoja Center for Pan African Student Excellence
Campus Disability Resource Center
Multicultural Queer Resource Center
Dreamer (Undocumented) Center
Project Rebound
Veterans Enrollment & Transition Services
Educational Opportunity Program
Social Justice, Equity & Inclusion Center
Diverse Male Scholar Center
Attend 1+ equity-focused campus event, workshop, or conversation each semester (Tea & Talks, CDOR, etc.)