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Tag: Bias: Page 2
Opinion
2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade
Over the years, organizations have sought to address, bias, discrimination and racism in the workplace by implementing a variety of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives with goals to address and fix these issues in order to make their organizationâs more inclusive.
February 6, 2020
News Roundup
Black Student Assaulted, Called N-Word by Two White Students on UAâs Campus
Two White University of Arizona (UA) students were arrested after assaulting a Black student on campus while repeatedly calling him the N-word, the Arizona Daily Star reported. The suspects, Matthew Grazier and Matthew Rawlings face misdemeanor assault charges and were held at the Pima County Jail. According to the police report, the Black student did not [âŚ]
September 17, 2019
African-American
My Failure to Call Out Bias
I am compelled to confess my complicity in bias. As much as I might suspect that I have been affected by prejudice in my career, even among academics who pride themselves as enlightened, I know that I have failed to act when I could have, in the face of inappropriate decision-making.
September 13, 2019
Women
Report: Education is Key Factor in Gender Bias Among Women in Politics
As campaign season for the 2020 presidency begins with more women competing for the nomination than ever before, gender bias continues to affect their chances of political success, with 13 percent of Americans believing that men are more emotionally suited for political office than women.
April 17, 2019
African-American
Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education
Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.
April 4, 2019
Students
Any Person, Any Study, but at What Cost?
In an editorial titled âAn Ode to the Rich and Legacies,â a current undergraduate at my alma mater connects the aftermath of the recent college admissions scandal to the idea that despite preferential treatment wealthy students receive, they are underappreciated from their lower-income peers.
March 27, 2019
Opinion
Moving from Ally to Accomplice: How Far Are You Willing to Go to Disrupt Racism in the Workplace?
Regardless of your profession, we have all been there â having a conversation with a White colleague about the daily microagressions or blatant racism that we endure as people of color in the workplace. From having our credentials constantly questioned and diminished, being overlooked for promotion, and ignored in meetings; to enduring comments such as âYouâre a credit to your race,â âYou speak English really well,â and âYouâre so articulateâ â people of color receive more than their fair share of daily microaggressive comments and blatant insults when on the job.
March 4, 2019
Disabilties
Candidates of Size â Highlighting Sizeism in Job Searches
Fatphobia, also known as anti-fat bias and sizeism, continues to engender difficult experiences for our students and our colleagues and it manifests in many ways, including our job search processes.
February 11, 2019
African-American
âWe Will Be Watchingâ â Algorithms And African-American Life
During my senior year in high school I developed an interest in pursuing a major related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in college, so I signed up for a section of physics taught by a college professor spending his academic leave at our high school.
February 6, 2019
News Roundup
AAC&U Encourages U.S. Institutions to Promote National Day of Racial Healing
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) asks U.S. colleges and universities to engage in activities, events or strategies that encourage healing and create engagement around racism, bias, inequity and injustice in American Society in celebration of the third annual National Day of Racial Healing on Jan. 22. The National Day of Racial Healing [âŚ]
January 16, 2019
Opinion
Is There a Limit to Academic Freedom?
While everyone is entitled to his own views, no one is allowed to act upon them when they harm others. This tolerance should be modeled and developed on college campuses, as young people are shaping their views and learning to interact with others from diverse backgrounds in ways that will inform their future.
November 7, 2018
News Roundup
Dozens of anti-Semitic Flyers Found at University of Rochester
Dozens of anti-Semitic propaganda flyers were found on a printer at The University of Rochester (UR)âs Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Womenâs Studies. âAnti-Semitic messages were faxed to a small number of University departments on Monday, Nov. 5. These messages are reprehensible and cowardly, and they are contrary to the Universityâs values,â [âŚ]
November 6, 2018
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