Understanding and Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education

Understanding and Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education
 Alex Madva, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Sponsored by Engineering Office of Diversity and Pitt STRIVE

This interactive session will explore the social, cultural and psychological origins of intergroup biases, and the most problematic effects such biases can have on students, faculty, staff, and administrators in higher education. The presenter will explore strategies that individuals and institutions of higher learning can employ to combat prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Alex Madva is an assistant professor of philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His research centers on the questions that research in social psychology raises for philosophy of mind, philosophy of race and feminism, and applied ethics, especially prejudice and discrimination.

Lunch will be served.  For more information and to register, visit the event webpage.