Focus on Bias: 03.2020
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:
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools – https://www.pbs.org/show/pushout-criminalization-black-girls-schools/. If you didn’t have a chance to watch this documentary at our Coffee & Conversation, it is now available on PBS. It takes about 56 minutes to watch.
- How Coronavirus Racism Infected My High School – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ccbJcqlUo. This video takes about 4 minutes to watch.
- We Need to Turn Our Response to Crisis Inside Out TEDTalk – https://www.ted.com/talks/shalini_unnikrishnan_we_need_to_turn_our_response_to_crisis_inside_out. This video takes about 10 minutes to watch.
- As Xenophobic Attacks Increase in Wisconsin, Officials and Advocates Respond by Rob Mentzer – https://www.wpr.org/xenophobic-attacks-increase-wisconsin-officials-and-advocates-respond
- ‘Lot of fear’: Coronavirus pandemic compounds dire situation for poor Americans by Bill Hutchinson – https://abcnews.go.com/Health/lot-fear-coronavirus-pandemic-compounds-dire-situation-poor/story?id=69767857
- More than a Sight: Workplace Microaggressions During COVID-19 – https://www.facebook.com/events/540055636648223/ (April 15 @ 4pm)
- White Fragility and Microagressions in the Workplace: When Good People Behave Badly – https://forumworkplaceinclusion.org/webinars/white-fragility-and-microagressions-in-the-workplace-when-good-people-behave-badly/?fbclid=IwAR0VnNcwyxXItt-VG62HJQUSA6FZilO1cW2M9EEPshTSHjg9kFvQ2LuURpA (April 23 @ 11am)
- Workplace 2020: An Intersection of Diversity and Politics – https://forumworkplaceinclusion.org/webinars/workplace-2020-an-intersection-of-diversity-and-politics/ (May 21 @ 11am)