Education and Outreach

The core effort of the Triandiflou Institute is to work with individuals and groups, on campus and beyond, to better understand issues of identity and to better communicate across differences. To these ends we strive to create spaces to learn concepts, share ideas, ask questions, and honor the many experiences and identities that coexist in our community.

Recent Work and Workshops

Student Leader Workshops

The Institute offers annual and ongoing professional development and workshop opportunities for student leaders and young professionals in a variety of capacities, including Residence Life and Housing, orientation leaders, Greek life, and various clubs and orgnaizations.

Leadership Oswego County

Every year Institute staff present a session on Implicit Bias to participants from organizations and businesses across the region participating in Leadership Oswego County.

CELT Winter Breakout

In January 2024, Institute staff Terrian Garvis and Marquél Jeffires discussed their ongoing social media profile series Our Faculty Are… in a session titled: "Our Faculty Are…”: Amplifying Faculty Voice to Debunk Myths & Explore Identities. This series interviews faculty and staff of historically marginalized identities to share their background, passions, research, and insights with the broader campus community. Previous presentation topics have included Trauma Informed Practice in a College Setting; Cultural Humility and the Inclusive Classroom; and Nonviolent Communication for Difficult Conversations.

Anti-Racism Research Guide

Committed to celebrating underrepresented voices in our community of personnel and users by showcasing them in collections, services, and programs, Penfield Library has some valuable in-print and online videos, eBooks, and literature highlighting discussions about racism to share and. The library can further connect you to remote resources beyond our campus.

Resources That Inform Our Work

Implicit Bias Training Modules from The Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University introduces participants to insights about how our minds operate and help us understand the origins of implicit associations. Participants will also uncover some of their own biases and learn strategies for addressing them. Each module is divided into a short series of lessons, many taking less than 10 minutes to complete.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a great resource for navigating difficult conversations. NVC contains four basic components: Observations, Feelings, Needs/Values, and Requests (referred to as OFNR). They are used when empathizing with our self and others, or in sharing our honest self-expression.

A valuable tool for allyship and change, Cultural Humility is a framework that encourages a lifelong commitment to:

self-evaluation and critique
redressing power imbalances
developing mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations"

Intergroup Dialogue supports sustained dialogue with diverse peers that integrates content learning and experiential knowledge. Intergroup dialogue encourages students to be intellectually challenged and emotionally engaged. Through these facilitated relationships students gain understanding of their own and others' experiences in society and cultivate individual and collective agency to effect social change.