Third Biennial Conference on Intergroup Dialogue to Feature Beverly Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Emerita of Spelman College and a clinical psychologist widely known for her expertise on race relations, will headline a special event on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. as part of the Third Biennial Conference on Intergroup Dialogue. Intergroup dialogue scholar and professor of social justice education at UMass Amherst, Ximena Zúñiga, will engage in conversation with Tatum at the Hooker Auditorium at Mount Holyoke College at this free public event. Conference co...

Five Campus Leaders from University of Massachusetts Amherst Complete Leadership Program at 2019 HERS Institute at Wellesley College

Sponsored by the University of Massachuetts Amherst, five campus leaders successfully completed an intensive residential leadership program at Wellesley College. HERS (Higher Education Resource Services), a leadership development and research organization dedicated to women in higher education, selected 68 women from across the United States and Canada, who all participated in the 2019 HERS Institute at Wellesley College.

The five UMass representatives include:

• Michelle
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Smith-Doerr Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant to Germany

Laurel Smith-Doerr, professor of sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Germany. In the spring 2020 semester, Smith-Doerr will be hosted at the Centre for Globalisation and Governance of the University of Hamburg where she will conducting research on her project, “Automating Privilege: Reproducing Inequalities in Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Production Processes in the U.S. and Germany.” The project will contribute to social science theory on organizational...

“Pass It On” Faculty and Staff Book Circle Forming

The Pass It On Book Circle invites faculty and staff to participate in its fourth session of reading and discussing “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People” by Mahzari R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald. This book circle, which will have five sessions in all, is supported by a Campus Climate Improvement Grant awarded to the Office of Research and Engagement.

In the book, Banaji and Greenwald explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes...