Working together to create more collegial, just spaces for learning and work
Faculty and staff invited to two workshops on implicit bias and microaggression, set for Sept. 22 and Sept. 29
All faculty and staff of the School of Architecture and Planning are encouraged to attend two workshops in support of our shared commitment to inclusion and racial justice within our own learning and work spaces and across the greater community. Let's work together to confront racism, misogyny, implicit or explicit biases, and practices, structures, and policies that undermine students, faculty, and staff from leading full professional and academic lives.
The workshops are presented by Dr. Maura Belliveau, director of the University at Buffalo's Center for Diversity Innovation (CDI).
We also ask tthose who hold supervisory roles within the School to please encourage and facilitate the attendance of your staff at these critical workshops.
*Note: No additional RSVP is needed for those who have already responded via a previous Outlook invitation.
Understanding and Disrupting Implicit Bias
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 | 12 pm - 2 pm
To what degree are even well-intentioned people—those who do not espouse racial, gender, or other forms of prejudice—biased? What, if any, control can we exert over own and others’ biases? Are there steps organizations can take to curtail the effects of bias on attitudes and behavior?
In this workshop, you’ll gain an understanding of the science of “implicit” (and “explicit”) bias, how each form of bias adversely influences decision making and group interaction, and yields inaccurate perceptions. Importantly, participants will learn how to individually and collectively recognize and disrupt the effects of implicit bias, limit negative effects, and create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces.
Zoom Info
https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/97398512768?pwd=L1UrbmRFK2JMZTdLQTJ5TWVtTnNPUT09
Meeting ID: 973 9851 2768
Passcode: 734403
Microaggressions and the Insidious Subtlety of Everyday Discrimination: How to Create More Collegial, Empowering, and Just Working and Learning Spaces
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 | 12 pm - 1 pm
Microaggressions are the subtle, everyday, verbal, nonverbal and environmental indignities, insults, and demeaning messages which, whether intentional or unintentional, communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership. Everyday interactions serve as a continual means by which belongingness, legitimacy, competence assessments, and respect are communicated and reinforced.
This training enables participants to understand, recognize, and respond to microaggressions in order to create and sustain learning and working environments in which members of marginalized groups obtain equal professional and academic opportunities, and can derive the positive sense of well-being commonly afforded colleagues from non-marginalized groups.
* NOTE: Eliminating microaggressions in working and learning spaces will not eliminate the pervasive and pernicious racial/ethnic and other group-based disparities in American society. Societal structures create disparities which are reinforced in the daily interactions we will discuss. However, as we all work to name and dismantle the larger, societal structures that perpetuate racism and other forms of injustice, we can use what we will discuss in this workshop to create more collegial, empowering and just work/learning places.
Join the meeting via Zoom
https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/96467105640?pwd=a1RkYkc4ZGJsblkwYWFKNWk4MFpmZz09
Meeting ID: 964 6710 5640
Passcode: 082646
Maura Belliveau, Director, Center for Diversity Innovation
Dr. Maura Belliveau is the inaugural director of the Center for Diversity Innovation at the University at Buffalo. Prior to her arrival at UB, she was an organizations and management faculty member at Emory (Goizueta Business School), Texas A&M (Mays Business School), and Duke University (Fuqua School of Business), where she was named one of the outstanding business school faculty members in the U.S. by Bloomberg/Business Week.
Her research, which has been published in pre-eminent scholarly journals and featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, and NPR, focuses on the processes that affect minority group members’ and women's differential career attainment, and on diversity interventions, including legally required mechanisms such as EEO reporting, affirmative action programs, and ADA accommodation, that foster the success of underrepresented groups. Dr. Belliveau regularly offers executive-level and other workshops for university, corporate, and community groups on understanding and disrupting forms of bias, creating effective mentoring programs, increasing gender equity, developing negotiating skills, building professional networks, and implementing practices that promote inclusion and eliminate discrimination in recruitment, selection, evaluation/promotion, and compensation.
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