The University Senate’s Equity, Inclusion, Anti-Discrimination, Advocacy Committee (EIADAC) is working with the Student Government Board, Staff Council and Zach Davis from the Office of Institutional Engagement and Wellbeing to create separate trainings for staff and faculty and for students who might encounter federal agents on campus, according to announcements at both Faculty Assembly and the EIADAC meetings earlier this month

Susan Graff, EIADAC co-chair, said the trainings will focus on “what to do if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or another agency is on campus and is directly trying to engage with you or your space. … And the focus is going to be exactly what to do if … you're being asked to to allow these folks into a space and what your rights are and what questions you should be asking.”

The time and location of the faculty and staff training has not been determined yet.

The student training will be from 7 to 9 p.m. April 8 at 324 Cathedral of Learning and will include a focus on “rapid response.”

The Pitt News reported last week that Student Government Board member Kylie Baker said the training will teach students how to serve as legal observers in case of a presence of federal agents on campus.

“This will be an event where students can finally sign up to be legal observers and learn how to participate in protecting their community safely,” Baker said at SGB’s weekly meeting on March 24.

— Marty Levine

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