Addressing Implicit Bias & Microaggressions To Create An Inclusive Classroom & Campus Community

Key Takeaway  We must be intentional about eliminating implicit biases and microaggressions in order to create safe, engaging, and inclusive environments where all students can be successful and thrive.  Challenge This webinar will increase awareness of a problem that by definition is outside of conscious awareness and help participants understand how the unconscious mind operates. Overview Racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination and prejudice toward marginalized and underrepresented groups are pervasive in our society and sometimes manifest as implicit bias and microaggressions. Implicit bias is the unconscious, automatic, and instantaneous association of stereotypes or attitudes towards particular groups of people, while microaggressions are the everyday indignities and insults and offensive hidden messages inflicted upon people of color and other marginalized and minority groups. Implicit biases and microaggres