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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Institute Diversity, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development and Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, is offering Implicit Bias Workshops for faculty this fall. All faculty who serve on reappointment, promotion, and/or tenure committees and faculty search committees are required to participate in an Implicit Bias Workshop pursuant to Provost Bras’ memo in October 2016 to academic leaders. However, all instructional and research faculty are welcomed to attend as space permits.
The goals of these workshops are to increase awareness of the impact of implicit bias and facilitate equitable decision-making across myriad processes related to faculty evaluations. As a participant in the workshop, you will learn the following:
• An introduction to the concept of implicit bias and how these unconscious, automatic mental processes may impact behaviors such as evaluating candidates during faculty search and/or RPT processes.
• Empirical research on vitaes, letters of recommendations, and teaching evaluations to illustrate the impact of implicit bias on decisions.
• Effective practices and strategies for faculty search and RPT committees.
These workshops will be facilitated by Julie Ancis, associate vice president, Institute Diversity; Paul Benkeser, senior associate chair and professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; Harris Dimitropoulos, associate professor, School of Architecture; Robert Kirkman, associate professor, School of Public Policy; Mark Mitchell, associate director, Georgia Tech Research Institute; and/or Michelle Rinehart, associate dean for academic affairs and outreach, College of Design.
To register for one of the workshops, visit www.advance.gatech.edu/implicit-bias-workshops. Lunch will be provided.
