Focus on Bias: 11.2019
The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a monthly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows.
Videos of the Month:
- How I Fail at Being Disabled TED Talk by Susan Robinson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZG5aPkZyM. This video takes about 7.5 minutes to watch.
- Looking Past Limits TED Talk by Caroline Casey – https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_casey_looking_past_limits?language=en. This video takes about 15 minutes to watch.
- ‘I wish they knew we existed’: Disability Rights Commission informs citizens, city on accessibility by Abby Schinderle – https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2019/11/i-wish-they-knew-we-existed-disability-rights-commission-informs-citizens-city-on-accessibility
- For some employment algorithms, disability discrimination by default by Alex Engler – https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2019/10/31/for-some-employment-algorithms-disability-discrimination-by-default/
- Bias Documentary Screening – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfWy1nnat3dCUhz20NTnrGQP1bEjNLw8xIYCZ5u6yiYKCUig/viewform (December 4)
- Harnessing Radical Hope for Collective Action – https://www.uwlax.edu/ex/hate-bias/?utm_source=MRKT-1155&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=conted_2020_hate_bias&utm_content=website (December 3-4)
- Pass the Mic: Stories from the Lives of People Affected by HIV – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdji9M-VLWzO33FXDGEOyHmJbi7ouLGj8qGv8yk_0mZmkt3CQ/viewform (December 5)
- Becoming an Inclusive Leader – https://uw.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&SessionID=fb5fdlfbnfbpfbmfd6ej9&Lang=* (December 5)
- NASPA Multicultural Institute: Advancing Equity and Inclusive Practice – https://www.naspa.org/events/2019NMI (December 8-10)
- NASPA Women’s Leadership Institute – https://www.naspa.org/events/2019WLI (December 9-12)
- UW Women Veterans Coffee Club – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/142652 (December 12)
- Overcoming Recruiting Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/207624040119889/ (December 13)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Outstanding Young Person Breakfast – https://www.facebook.com/events/328860401308050/ (January 19)
- Step Up Lab: Leadership for Equitable Nonprofits – https://www.facebook.com/events/776840576100509/ (February 10 & 24)
- Perspectives: Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace Part 1 – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/catalog/Catalog/tabid/29/Default.aspx (March 4)
- A Dream Deferred: The Future of African American Education – https://dreamdeferred.collegeboard.org/ (March 11-13)
- Step Up Lab: Inclusive Hiring – https://www.facebook.com/events/430256424338746/ (March 13 & 27)
- White Privilege Conference – https://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/ (April 1-4)
- Perspectives: Disability Awareness and Ableism – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx?CK=65746 (April 9)
- Step Up Lab: Driving Sales by Disrupting Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/2431920407062252/ (April 9 & 10)
- Perspectives: Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace Part 2 – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/catalog/Catalog/tabid/29/Default.aspx (April 15)
- Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change and the Arts – https://consortium.gws.wisc.edu/conference/ (April 16-18)
- Prepárate: Educating Latinos for the Future of America – https://preparate.collegeboard.org/ (April 23-24)
- Step Up Lab: Building a Culture of Retention – https://www.facebook.com/events/2224377931195330/ (May 8 & 22)
- NCORE 2020 – https://www.ncore.ou.edu/en/ (May 26-30)