Challenge Identity Bias
These short videos help you understand the root of identity bias, and the challenge statements offer a simple change you can make to reduce bias.
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Disrupt Exclusion
Education as Disruption is an invitation to turn to wonder instead of judgment when faced with misunderstanding, to approach challenges related to bias – perceived or experienced – with curiosity, and to choose learning over resentment.
If we all did this, it would change our community.
Explore the curated learning resources to build your capacity to engage in a diverse community.
Grapple and Grow
Engage deeply and wrestle with ideas that challenge your beliefs about difference.
Personal growth often occurs when we experience discomfort. When we avoid discomfort, we can stagnate and miss out on opportunities for learning and development. Discomfort offers us an opportunity to reexamine what we thought we knew (beliefs, habits, and perspectives).
Unpack Hate
To effectively combat hate, we must start by unpacking its causes.
Check out these identity-based resource guides to learn why we hate.
Hold Space
Listen to our Holding Space podcast to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts and language that is commonly used, but not well explained or understood.
Classroom Inclusivity Series
The Classroom Inclusivity Series aims to equip instructors with skills to promote engagement across the range of differences present in the classroom. Workshops or training sessions included within the series will address the following competencies:
- Competency 1: Understand and begin to address your and your students’ identities, biases, prejudices, and fears and the impact they have on learning and the classroom environment.
- Competency 2: Infuse inclusive teaching practices into your educational practices by course re-design or adopting new teaching activities.
- Competency 3: Ensure course content, web pages, activities, and assessments are accessible to all students.
Small, but Significant Ideas
Ideas that Ignite Change are short reflection pieces written by Anna Branch, Senior Vice President for Equity, sharing practices to enable us to build and sustain our community instead of coexisting in hostile proximity.
Each idea includes resources from short articles to books and videos to put the idea into practice.
The alternative is to shut down and retreat to our ideological corners. Resist that urge and stay engaged.
Start small, read and reflect on the ideas. When the opportunity presents itself, and it will, try one out.
Turn to Wonder
Get curious in moments of disagreement. Lean into discomfort.
Use the PAUSE framework, which offers practical strategies to disrupt everyday bias.
