Advancing Equity Practices in Academic Spaces: Evaluating Employee Training Outcomes and Readiness to Respond to Microaggressions

• In Event: Workplace Learning in Educational Spaces

Abstract

Microaggressions create uncomfortable work conditions and impact job satisfaction and retention for academic professional staff and faculty from minoritized groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic and at the tilt of the Black Lives Matter Movement, scholars at a predominately white institution (PWI) in the northeast, conducted a quantitative study. Data was collected based on survey results from a series of online workshops titled “Responding to Microaggressions in the Workplace' Data was collected from faculty, staff, and student employees (N=111) to measure perceptions of readiness to respond to microaggressions. Findings indicate a heightened understanding of microaggressions, employees' readiness to respond in academic settings.

Authors

• Ada Robinson-Perez, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Manar Sabry, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Sophia Givre, Binghamton University - SUNY