Implicit Bias Workshops

The ADVANCE-IDEI Implicit Bias Workshops for faculty aim to increase awareness of the impact of implicit bias and facilitate equitable decision-making across various processes related to faculty evaluations.

GTRI Research Faculty should register for a GTRI Implicit Bias workshop via Quest LMS. Please contact Organizational Development Manager Sarah Cockrell (sarah.cockrell@gtri.gatech.edu) or Course Facilitator Akida Nurse (Akida.Nurse@gtri.gatech.edu). 

Overview

Pursuant to Provost McLaughlin's July 2021 memo to academic leaders, all faculty who serve on reappointment, promotion, and/or tenure committees, and faculty search committees are required to participate in an implicit bias workshop. 

In addition, beginning this year, faculty participating in search and evaluation processes should refresh their implicit bias training every three years at a minimum. If you participated in an implicit bias workshop within the past three years (Fall 2019-Spring 2022), you are exempt from this requirement until Spring 2023 at the earliest (depending upon the semester and year of previous training). If you have not participated in an implicit bias workshop since Spring 2019, you are now due to retake it. 

We invite you to register to participate in one of six workshops scheduled this fall. All workshops are held from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Space is limited, and registration is required to attend:

• Wednesday, August 10
• Tuesday, August 30 
• Wednesday, September 7 
• Thursday, September 22 
• Monday, September 26 
• Friday, October 14 ​
• Thursday, October 27

If a session reaches maximum capacity, registration for the respective date will automatically close on the registration site but will reappear upon cancellations. Should your schedule change and you can no longer attend a workshop, please contact us as soon as possible at institutediversity@gatech.edu so we can release your seat.  

Also, please note that we now offer implicit bias workshops annually for academic, research faculty, and staff through our Diversity and Inclusion Education and Training division. These workshops focus on bias in workplace dynamics and processes like searches, hiring, and promotion. The Implicit Bias and Search Committees training does satisfy requirements for those who serve on hiring/promotion committees. 

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 vitae, 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.

Workshop Facilitators:

Questions about workshops?
Contact Diley Hernández, Ph.D., at diley.hernandez@gatech.edu.

Questions about registration?
Contact Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at institutediversity@gatech.edu.