Faculty from Florida International University (FIU), a longtime COACHE partner, recently published “Motivating Bystander Intervention to Reduce Bias in Faculty Interactions” in Advance Journal, which focuses on individual and institutional transformation in social justice.
FIU’s Bystander Leadership™ Program was developed and implemented to provide faculty with the knowledge, motivation, and tools to respond against interpersonal and systemic bias and thus promote change that strengthens inclusivity. The program is part of a larger body of programming started in 2011 aimed at reducing gender and race bias among FIU faculty members and is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE program.
Preliminary results from the program suggest that the model could be adopted in other institutions to enhance efforts to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity.
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