Tag: Diversity Dialogue
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Big impact of microaggressions
Harvard’s Diversity Dialogue examines mental health and its intersection with ethnicity and the fallout of the daily “thousand little cuts.”
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Mental health as a diversity issue
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Summer Panel focuses on the impacts of mental illness in the workplace and what can be done about it.
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Diversity and dialogue in an age of division
Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”
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How to navigate the gender landscape at work
Stephanie Huckel, senior global program manager of diversity and inclusion at IGT, offered insight and advice during a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogue titled “Achieving Greater Workplace Equity for LGBTQ Employees.”
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‘Am I black or am I white?’
Anthony Peterson dismantled society’s false narrative about race while sharing his own story during an FAS Diversity Dialogue discussion.
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Islamic studies scholar addresses myths and mores behind the veil
Islamic studies scholar Celene Ibrahim discussed the myths and realities of Muslim Feminism at the year’s second Diversity Dialogue.
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White and male and seen all over
When portraits on institutional “walls of fame” are almost exclusively of white men, it sends a message that can have psychological and performance effects, two researchers said at a recent Diversity Dialogue.
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Yale professor examines unconscious biases by whites
“But I Don’t See Color! Consequences of Racial Color-Blindness,” was the topic of a talk by John Dovidio, the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology at Yale University. The discussion was part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Diversity Dialogue series.
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What it means when ‘The Doctor Is Out’
What happens when homophobia hits the hospital? “The Doctor Is Out: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Schuster on Being a Gay Physician at Harvard” was part of Harvard Medical School’s Diversity Dialogue series.
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Cultural intelligence: Everybody needs it
A diverse workforce, whose members have developed their cultural intelligence, is a more productive workforce, according to David Livermore, president of the Cultural Intelligence Center. In the first of the academic year’s Diversity Dialogues, Livermore said that diverse teams with high cultural intelligence out-performs homogeneous teams.
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The gains from diversity
A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for business, said Eddie Pate, vice president of diversity and inclusion at Avanade Inc., in a dialogue session involving the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Fighting prejudice by admitting it
Everyone is prejudiced, said a conference speaker. But there are ways to undermine and manage it.
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Don’t just stand there
It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.