Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative (C.A.R.E.)
Campus Workshops
C.A.R.E. Campus Workshops
The workshops for SCSU employees offer hands-on activities, interactive discussions, and customized approaches that promote anti-racism and belonging. Participants report that workshops offer real-world scenarios and practical steps to eliminate racism in their organizations and communities.
Why we use "stones" as a metaphor
Stones represent memorial and remembrance; their weight can call us to action. In Minnesota’s watershed, as the waters recede, they appear as guides directing us where to journey next. In the Granite City of St. Cloud, they form a bedrock of identity and economic opportunity.
Our workshops use the metaphor of the stepping stones to guide participants in acknowledging racism, analyzing racism, and acting with antiracist outcomes and methods. Workshops can be taken individually or completed as a set, helping participants move from individual islands of effort toward archipelagoes of collaboration and transformative change.
Workshop Stones: Acknowledge, Analyze, and Act to Dismantle Structural Racism
Stone One
Acknowledge, Analyze, Act: Dismantling Racism through Stories.
This workshop places weight on acknowledging racism. Employees, students, and community members will unpack the definition of racism, differentiate between interpersonal versus structural racism, analyze power and privilege, and form an action plan to dismantle racism in one of five areas: 1) housing, 2) education, 3) law, 4) healthcare, 5) land/environment.
Upcoming Session
- Monday April 21, 2025, 1PM-4PM
Hybrid In-Person and Online option
This workshop satisfies the CARE Workshop requirement for all new SCSU Employees.
Stone Two
Acknowledge, Analyze, Act: Dismantling Racism in Your Story.
This workshop places weight on analyzing racism. Students, employees, and community members will analyze structural racism in their lives. Participants will generate an analysis of their racial story and who they can join to dismantle racist structures that affect them, their community, and their regions.
Upcoming Session
- Thursday, March 27, 2025, 1PM to 4PM
In-Person Session
Stone Three
Acknowledge, Analyze, Act: Dismantling Racism in Our Stories.
This workshop places weight on acting with antiracist outcomes and methods. Students, employees, and community members will generate art that inspires action in one of the five areas identified in Stone One. Participants will create an artifact that expresses their racial story and will identify other agents with whom they can collaborate. Participants will gain an intersectional understanding of how an antiracist framework magnifies other areas of oppression such as age, size, (dis)ability, gender, sexuality, religion, class, and new emerging forces. Participants will learn to attune to the depth of interracial and cross-racial structures that thicken and deepen antiracist outcomes and methods.
Upcoming Sessions
Workshops coming Fall 2025.
Other Stones
Cultural Humility: Supervising across Race, Culture and Identity
An advanced workshop for supervisors and graduate students that explores race, culture, and identity. It dissects oppressive practices and offers practical ideas that will guide everyday work.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: (ARPAC)
The Minnesota State award-winning ARPAC workshop for faculty and teaching graduate students provides intensive training about incorporating anti-racist pedagogy into courses across disciplines.
ARPAC fosters a community of educators committed to anti-racist praxis, which supports faculty in teaching. Learning outcomes include examining theory, structure, and the practice of racism and power relations embedded in history and academic disciplines; raising self-awareness of social locations and knowledge production; empowering students by validating and acknowledging everyday experiences; fostering critical thinking and equipping students with anti-racist language and discussion skills; creating a sense of community in the classroom; and developing skills for anti-racist methodologies in the classroom.