When Good Enough is Just Right
“Your students won’t know the difference between an ‘A’ lecture and a ‘B’ lecture.” What feelings does that statement elicit? To a recent PhD graduate in their first year of teaching, spoken by ...
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Tag Archives: inclusion
Want to be inclusive? Learn how to pronounce that ‘tricky’ name!
This bulletin was originally shared three years ago. As a new semester starts and we welcome new people to classrooms, labs, and other spaces, we thought it was worth re-visiting. Our names are ...
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Creating and Communicating Meeting Norms
Have you ever walked into a meeting comfortable that you knew what to expect, then realized that your assumptions were incorrect? Or worried that you *didn’t* know how to behave in a specific situation? ...
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Writing an inclusive course syllabus
Thank you to Jessie Choi, PhD, USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Associate in Ithaca (she/her) for guest writing this Bulletin! During my first year as an undergraduate, I struggled to navigate aspects of the classroom that ...
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Holiday greetings and why they matter
As you’ve gone about your errands over the last few weeks, you have likely been wished either “Happy Holidays”, or “Merry Christmas.” Which greeting you received may have stirred up some feelings for you. ...
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Hidden curriculum in higher education: Make it heard, seen, and understood
Thank you to Jessie Choi, PhD, Research Assistant in the PPPMB Section, (she/her) for guest writing this Bulletin! It was my first August in college. As a first-generation student and immigrant from a single-parent ...
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What is DEI?
Like any group, DEI practitioners use jargon as a shortcut to convey specific meanings that may be unclear or confusing to anyone unfamiliar with the terms. As part of our DEI Bulletin series, we ...
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Deconstructing Political Stereotypes Through Political Conversations
“Never talk about religion or politics” is a familiar maxim in the U.S., but one that may not serve our best interests in these unprecedented times. In the past 40 years, the U.S. has ...
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Reporting Incidents of Bias at Cornell
(Originally shared March 28, 2024) In our December bulletin we wrote about implicit biases – the subconscious views we hold about other people based on the way they look, speak, act, think, believe, etc. ...
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Lab Manuals as Accessibility Tools
(Originally shared February 13, 2024) Thanks to guest author Monique Rivera for writing this month’s DEI bulletin! A laboratory manual or a laboratory handbook is a document, usually written by the Principal Investigator ...
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Dismantling Anti-Fat Bias
(Originally shared January 29, 2024) Anti-Fat Bias, also known as weight stigma or sizeism, is the only social bias that has increased notably in the last few decades. Anti-fatness is so engrained in US culture that it remains legal ...
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Celebrating Coming Out Day
(Originally shared October 9, 2023) October 11 is National Coming Out Day. This day recognizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, asexual, and queer people choosing to live openly as their authentic selves by ...
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