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Moderator: Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Have you moved through your institution’s diversity trainings...yet find yourself, your department, your institutional team falling short of equitable and inclusive educational practices? An equity audit might help you to collectively take stock of your current situation and provide a roadmap for realigning actions with values. In this session, we will provide guidance for how to conduct an equity audit. Strategies, resources, and lessons learned from our own experiences will be organized into four phases: 1) planning and committing to an equity audit, 2) identifying the right questions to ask, 3) making sense of data to surface new questions, and 4) addressing new questions with action. Within each phase, attendees will be invited to nominate problems of practice that they anticipate facing and to brainstorm approaches to overcoming potential barriers (eg, resistant colleagues, difficulty accessing appropriate data).