Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias in the Workplace
Diversity Workshop For Faculty and Staff
In this focused conversation, UMBC-STRIDE fellows, Drs. Wayne Lutters, Susan McDonough, and Kevin Omland will discuss implicit bias---what it is, and how it operates in our higher education workplace, especially within the context of hiring search committees.
With a key focus on fostering diversity and inclusive excellence, STRIDE fellows will share tangible steps that we can implement to reduce the impact of implicit bias.
About STRIDE - The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence is a faculty-led group that provides peer-to-peer training on the ways that overt discrimination, implicit bias, accumulated advantage and disadvantage, and the influence of gender and racial schema have inhibited the recruitment and hiring of underrepresented minority faculty.
STRIDE also provides guidance on best practices that will maximize the likelihood that diverse candidates for faculty positions will be identified, recruited, and hired at UMBC. The Committee leads workshops for faculty and administrators involved in every stage of the hiring process. It also works directly with individual departments by meeting with chairs, faculty search committees, and other department members involved with recruitment and hiring.