The Unit for Diversity and Inclusion offers the university’s academic units and staff a wide variety of tools, services and resources in order to ensure academic success and maximization of potential for all diversity populations in routine as well as periods of security tensions. As we face the horrors of war, we invite those of hour teaching staff members who are capable of doing so to join us in an attempt to prepare ourself for the war’s aftermath – to the day our students will arrive on campus, some with physical and mental scars, some grieving, all deserving optimal conditions. Against the background of the diverse groups and identities that comprise our student body, we must pay particular attention to the fact that Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, will once again share the same corridors, classrooms, labs, and offices. It is our responsibility to create and maintain a safe, dignifying and tolerant space for them.
In order to achieve this, we need your active commitment and engagement as staff members, before they arrive, and all the more so as soon as your first lesson begins. We are here to support and accompany you, and to provide you with a wide variety of tools and resources. To register to the program, please fill in your details here.
The following is a brief description of the resources available to you as part of Meeting Points:
Based on our experience, we would like to promote a working model that enables adaptation to the unique characteristic and needs of each academic unit, and would therefore be happy to hold a kickstart meeting with the representatives of the various units as soon as possible in order to accurately specify the services allocated to the unit. In addition, we ask you to distribute this document to all members of your academic and administrative staff. The following is a summary of the options available for you:

 

Teaching in a heterogeneous classroom during and after security tensions (together with the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), a Chord, and Gender Equity):

 

Workshop

 

Teaching in the Shadow of War – Dr. Udi Tsemach (Pedagogical Officer at the Diversity Unit & TLU)	Restarting Your Learning – Dr. Udi Tsemach	Teaching in a Diverse Campus at Wartime – Dr. Adar Cohen	Between Partnership and Conflict – Dr. Tami Rubel Lifschitz	The Containing Classroom: Orientation and Teaching in a Diverse Classroom – a Chord Center

 

Imperceptible Biases – Gender, Diversity and Excellence at the Hebrew University: Where Do We Stand, Where Are We Heading?

 

Individual consulting

 

Peer learning

 

Ongoing support

 

Additional activities by the Diversity Unit:

 

Academic and administrative diversity officers’ forum – a network of diversity officers in all university units who lead initiatives relevant and suitable for the units.	Translatingmaterials into Arabic (syllabi, major assignments, disciplinary terminology)	Adding interdisciplinary courses on democracy, moral virtues and values	Comprehensive (organizational, administrative and pedagogical) support for the administrative and academic staff – provided at unit level, according to the unit leadership’s commitment.