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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Microaggressions are often rooted in unconscious or implicit bias. In fact, marginalized students in medical school report higher rates of implicit bias throughout their education, perpetuating the underrepresentation of diverse practitioners and emphasizing the need for enhanced DEI programs in medical education.

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Addressing Massive Disproportionality in Youth Arrests Should Not Be Option

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This requires policymakers to allocate resources for personnel, training, and infrastructure to meet the demand for mental health services. High schools should partner with local businesses, trade unions, and vocational training centers to create relevant curriculum frameworks.

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A Model to Engage Learners in Discussions on Health Equity and Implicit Bias

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement: Exploring implicit bias early in health education training, even when done quickly, carries the potential to positively impact how future healthcare providers practice and promote health equity through culturally competent care. One-Minute Preceptor for Health Equity and Implicit Bias. Introduction.

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Utah bill would ban colleges from asking for diversity statements - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive

Ray Schroeder

Banned topics would include implicit bias, critical race theory, intersectionality and racial privilege. Colleges would also be required to conduct campus climate surveys and offer employees annual training on freedom of speech. Institutions that violated the provisions could lose state funding.

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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the realm of higher education, the system's implicit message is clear: conform to the oppressive culture and align with the ideals of the white majority. The excuses concocted to justify these actions are merely smokescreens for an underlying agenda of deliberate racial discrimination.

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gershenson and Griffin agreed that white faculty also need better training to teach and mentor an increasingly diverse student body. Some of that might be implicit bias training or empathy training that helps professors better relate to their students,” said Gershenson. “I

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Study: Small Number of Teachers Account for Half of Racial Discipline Difference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Liu and his colleagues found evidence that implicit bias is a key cause: the study showed that the increase in the gap was primarily driven by referrals for subjective reasons, such as interpersonal offenses and defiance, rather than more objective ones, like violence, drugs, or truancy.

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