A Guide to Effective Bias Reporting, Response and Training Systems

Click Here to View Sample Pages Intentional Strategies for Furthering Campus Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Efforts Campus bias incidents can do indelible harm. They create unsafe, unwelcoming environments for those who are targeted – and others. They cause stress, anxiety and fear, often reducing students’ abilities to be as successful and whole as possible. As a result, emotional health concerns, physical symptoms and retention issues arise. Those are a few of the reasons that many colleges and universities have created Bias Response Teams or groups dedicated to Campus Climate Concerns. They’re tied into institutional values surrounding belonging, contribution, diversity, equity and inclusion. And they’re designed to help create campus communities committed to human dignity and equality. That all makes good sense, yet there are multiple complexities involved with bias reporting and response: legal challenges, designing effective systems, working within institutional limit