Increasing Awareness While Interrogating Racial Implicit Bias: Findings and Implications for Creating Inclusive Educational Spaces

• In Event: Understanding Diversity, Resistance, and Change in Faculty and Staff Experiences

Abstract

Inclusive educational spaces are necessary for post-secondary students to thrive. However, faculty and staff often create non-inclusive educational spaces while exhibiting and perpetuating behaviors relative to race/racism and microaggressions driven by racial implicit bias. Via this mixed-methods study, researchers examined the effects of a set of Canvas-based training modules about race/racism, implicit bias, and microaggressions on the attitudes of participating university faculty and staff and their opinions about and intentions toward creating inclusive educational spaces. Researchers found participant’s attitudes positively shifted relative to race/racism, implicit bias, and microaggressions. In addition, faculty and staff identified specific practices they could, and intended to incorporate to facilitate more inclusive educational spaces within their spheres of influence. Their trainings seemingly had a positive impact.

Authors

• Corinne Corte, Arizona State University
  Presenting Author

• Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arizona State University
  Presenting Author