Thursday, June 18, 2020
Supporting Black Owned Businesses in the Lehigh Valley (takes you to a Facebook page)
Anti-Racist Resources for STEM/Academy
- Lehigh's Council for Equity and Community shared that coming in July there will be a Forum for exploring what an 'anti-racist' Lehigh will look like- see the full message, forum heads up, and opportunity to give feedback directly to the CEC in its A Message from the Council for Equity and Community
- Resources from Shut Down STEM day of education, action, healing- June 10th. https://www.shutdownstem.com/resources and https://www.particlesforjustice.org/
- Anti-Racist Work at the University (Crowd-Sourced Doc; pay special attention to the last section)
- ASEE Virtual Panel: From Anti-Racism in Engineering: From Dialogue to Action, June 16, 2020. ASEE convened a group of panelists, from K-12 to higher education, to discuss and share resources that can help engineering educators tackle racism in their classrooms and institutions, addressing the broader contexts in which engineering is practiced. Below is a collection of anti-racism resources shared by panelists and attendees. The linked resources include Engineering focused frameworks.
- Scaffolding Anti-Racism Resources (Google-Doc for your stage of readiness)
Equity-Pandemic
- The Association for Women in Science hosted a Town Hall entitled “Ensuring Equity in Institutional COVID-19 Responses” The recording is shared in the link, and the organizers share some curated infromation in addition to the following message: "We acknowledge the unique labor of equity work especially during times of overlapping and intertwined crises. We appreciate your making time as we seek to identify, coordinate, and create resources to address the issues and challenges facing marginalized individuals in the academy. We also appreciate your patience and support as we facilitated this conversation in a fully virtual format."
- Dr. Bentley Gibson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Founder of The Bias Adjuster and keynote speaker Lehigh's January Inclusive Excellence in Teaching programs, recently gave a workshop for LVAIC-check out the workshop recording here:
- Chemistry World features Dr. Krystle McLaughlin, Vassar (formerly of Lehigh BIOS) - Research Sabattical, Parenting, Teaching through COVID-19
- Here is a website with a wealth of information: a living document that is intended to continue the conversation on gender equity in academia that was started in the article Gender Equity in Academia Post-COVID19: Challenges and Opportunities.
