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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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Webinar: AI Can Bolster DEI Efforts in the Workplace and Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is human nature to have likes and dislikes, which lead to conscious or unconscious biases that may reflect in people’s decision-making when engaging in hiring processes. AI offers a way to remove unconscious bias from the equation and create a more equitable hiring process. AI is not new.

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‘Race-Blind’ Group Claims Victory Over DEI at UNC, But the Truth is More Complex

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Color Us United said that it would monitor the situation at UNC by emailing employees and asking them to report any unconscious bias trainings, racial preferences, curricula based in critical race theory, and divisive political statements. It’s possible that work in other aspects of DEI is being continued.”

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New DEI Certificate at Muhlenberg Joins Others Working Toward Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court continues its deliberations over the use of race as one of many holistic admissions assessments, DEI officers and training can offer a crucial connecting point to understand how race is woven into the lived experiences of students, faculty and staff, both on and off campus. As the U.S.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We must also recognize that, given the Western bias to knowledge production and accumulation, we are trained to view Western knowledge as fundamental to our teaching and understanding of modernity. Here, the goa l is to challenge Eurocentric assumptions and biases often unconsciously embedded in discussion prompts.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Students as they Work to Achieve Professional and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Train Faculty and Staff. Institutions can make their inclusivity goals a reality by providing training to those who interact with students every day and know them best. Training can help faculty identify pre-existing assumptions and help them modify class discussions and course materials accordingly.

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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

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Lastly, a group of Division of Arts and Humanities faculty organized an Inclusive Pedagogy Speaker Series and brought speakers focused on racial bias, LGBTQ+ inclusive practices, and creating more equitable syllabi. As a result, we found many examples of thoughtful but uncoordinated efforts.

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