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Tag: Implicit bias
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NASFAA Creates Toolkit to Reduce Implicit Bias in Financial Aid Policies
To mitigate the negative impact of implicit bias, specifically in college financial aid offices, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) published the “Implicit Bias Toolkit.” The toolkit offers best practices to financial aid administrators to address biases in policies related to institutional forms, communication, cost of attendance, scholarship, student worker programs, verification and professional judgment.
July 20, 2021
African-American
Virtual Book Club Puts Focus on Implicit Bias
To understand individual prejudice, the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has developed a virtual Implicit Bias Book Club for faculty members and community partners to participate in virtually.
August 10, 2020
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Our Children are Watching: Teachers, What are Your Non-Verbal Messages Saying to Our Black Students?
Due to racial injustices – profiling in society and in schools – Black caregivers are obligated to train our children to be hyper-observant of their surroundings, and strangers and foes when driving, walking, playing, shopping, dining… in all situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a physical reprieve from deficit thinking and alienation in a brick-and-mortar setting, but not visually during online teaching where visuals dominate.
June 21, 2020
Opinion
The Impact of Whiteness on Higher Education Hiring
Many African-Americans grow up knowing that you must be “twice as good to get half as far.” I think that this structure and forced frame of thought is embedded with racism. Why aren’t there opportunities available for everyone based on your own merit and your qualifications for the role? The system of higher education is wired to promote those with a closer proximity to Whiteness while at the same time creating a barrier for men and women alike who look like me.
August 14, 2019
Opinion
Four Hiring Strategies for Increasing Faculty Diversity
Diversifying the faculty remains one of the most central challenges facing American higher education today. This is not to say that White faculty cannot be successful with students of color. However, it is certainly important for students to see people who look like them at some point in their academic career
July 17, 2019
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Convening Explores Strategies to Improve Grad Student Diversity
Improving diversity, equity and inclusion in graduate education should involve intentional efforts to enhance student experience by cultivating a nurturing campus climate through broadening access, mitigating bias and providing strong support services.
March 26, 2019
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CGS Meeting Hears Sobering Report on Black Student Access
Institutional racism, White supremacy and anti-Black attitudes fuel underrepresentation of Black students on college and university campuses across the United States, with access a battle constantly being waged in legal courts and the court of public opinion, according to an academic who addressed the 58th annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools this week.
December 6, 2018
African-American
White Supremacy: Get Out the Way
Some might describe Ludacris’s (2001) song, “Move Bitch” as an anthem of fight, strength, and resistance. Others might describe the song as bold, vulgar, and direct. I use the title to describe a recent experience I had working in higher education that forced me to resign from my position and the institution that employed me.
August 31, 2018
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Expert Helps Educators Adjust Implicit Biases
Bentley Gibson had magical powers as a princess from another planet. At least, that’s how the 5-year-old Black girl presented herself to a sea of White classmates in White Plains, N.Y. on the first day of school. She sensed that they regarded her as different, and make-believe was her mechanism for coping with the racial tension and subtle prejudice she would encounter in life.
June 11, 2018
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NADOHE Meeting Focuses on Best Practices for Diversity, Inclusion
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Diversity practitioners from schools across the country have gathered this week at the 12th annual meeting of the National Association of Diversity Officers In Higher Education to learn the best practices to foster diversity, equity and inclusion on their campuses.
March 8, 2018
Faculty & Staff
All Height Matters: Implicit Bias and Unearned Privileges
A student asked me, “What does implicit bias look like? Give me some examples.”
October 10, 2016
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