Unconscious Bias: When Good Intentions Aren’t Enough, by Sarah E. Fiarman. Educational Leadership, November 2016 | Volume 74 | Number 3.
“Deep-rooted biases hinder our best intentions. Learn how to recognize and address them.” A longer (5 pages) article that goes through a number of unconscious ways in which inequities can be perpetuated, and that challenges us all to hold each other accountable to make change.
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.”
“Politicising ‘Diversity’ inside the White Male Academic Powerhouse.” DIS/CONTENT. 2015.
A short piece that is about the Netherlands but applicable to Canada too; it thinks about how addressing the lack of diversity in academia requires looking at both representation and knowledge.
Jennifer McWeeny, “Top Ten Ways to Foster an Inclusive Classroom.” (John Carroll University, 2012)
A list of ways to think through behaviour and how assumptions work in the classroom; especially useful for many faculty are 2, 5, 7. Includes a short 10 min video specific to LGBTQ students
“People from different backgrounds have varying ways of looking at problems, what I call ‘tools.’ The sum of these tools is far more powerful in organizations with diversity than in ones where everyone has gone to the same schools, been trained in the same mold and thinks in almost identical ways.”
– Scott E. Page, Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science and Economics, University of Michigan
“Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.”
– Bill Crawford
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.”
Colleen Flaherty, “Breaking Down Diversity Statements,” Inside Higher Ed (Nov. 19, 2018)
An interesting read about what people include in their required diversity statements.
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
— Maya Angelou