“The point isn’t to get people to accept that they have biases, but to get them to see [for themselves] that those biases have negative consequences for others.”
— Theresa McHenry, HR Director at Microsoft UK
“The point isn’t to get people to accept that they have biases, but to get them to see [for themselves] that those biases have negative consequences for others.”
— Theresa McHenry, HR Director at Microsoft UK
“Unconscious perceptions govern many of the most important decisions we make and have a profound effect on the lives of many people in many ways…. Unconscious patterns can play out in ways that are so subtle they are hard to spot.”
— Howard Ross, Founder of Cook Ross Inc.
University of Color, “Decolonize the University”
A (now closed) petition that calls for democratizing and decolonizing the university. It’s a very comprehensive list–something here to provoke pretty well everyone on campus. Much of it addresses curriculum, but it also deals with other practices.
Universities Canada, “Universities Canada Principles on Indigenous Education”
A statement from Universities Canada that addresses, in point form, everything from governance structures to content and curriculum–all as responses to both indigenous presence on campus and “social and cultural imperatives” to think about indigenous inclusion.
Ellen Boucher, “It’s Time to Ditch Our Deadlines,” Chronicle of Higher Education (August 22, 2016).
Boucher considers how structures like deadlines presume “who” is in the classroom, and might inadvertently result in the exclusion of many students; this connects to our ongoing discussion at UPEI about both “what” and “who” university is for (the comments are really interesting too!).
“Inclusive Teaching” from the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This site includes some ideas for in-class behaviours and practices. A few also allude to curriculum.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Study: Bathrooms, gender identity protection policies most important to transgender students (Inside Higher Ed, 2018)
Sample Inclusion Policy from Early Childhood Ireland
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivers a Ted Talk about growing up in Nigeria with British (& white) cultural values, expectations, and stereotypes.
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
Staff and students from the LGBTIQ community at the University of Sydney answer questions you might be too afraid to ask. (2017)