Georgia Institute of Technology ADVANCE Program | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA

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 90-minute Implicit Bias Workshops designed for tenured and tenure-track faculty. 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.

Two Implicit Bias Workshops will be offered to tenured and tenured-track faculty on February 22 and February 28 from noon to 1:30 p.m. during spring semester 2018.

Click here to register for the February 22 workshop

Click here to register for the February 28 workshop 

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; and two new facilitators, including Harris Dimitropoulos, associate professor, School of Architecture; Robert Kirkman, associate professor, School of Public Policy; Mark Mitchell, associate director, Georgia Tech Research Institute; and Michelle Rinehart, associate dean for academic affairs and outreach, College of Design.