UNEION 101 is the introductory course in the UNEION (UCAR|NCAR Equity and Inclusion) training series. Below you will find a list of resources we use during the four training sessions.
UNEION is open to all NCAR and UCAR employees and visitors.
Session 1: Our place in society
An introduction to the many different identities that an individual can simultaneously hold — including gender, race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation— and ways in which privilege and unconscious bias can affect our interactions.
Background materials
- Harvard implicit bias test
- The impact of implicit bias
- Panti’s noble call
- What riding my bike taught me about white privilege
- Explaining white privilege to a broke white person
- How to fight your own implicit biases
- The myth and reality of meritocracy
- UCAR|NCAR case for diversity
- Why does John get the STEM job rather than Jennifer?
- How diversity makes us smarter
- Unconscious bias at work
Session 2: Gender
The concept of gender identity, how gender is socialized in society, how gender can affect workplace experience, and gender-based and sexual harassment.
Background materials
- "Guyland" *Chapter 3
- Gender bias in the workplace *A summary of resources
- Privilege is invisible to those who have it: Engaging men in workplace equality
- Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees report harassment and assault
- Sara Connell Lunch and Learn discussion at NCAR
- Why do trans people make me feel uncomfortable?
- Me too: Why are women sharing stories of sexual assault and how did it start?
- Holding space for victims of harassment *Content warning: harassment, assault, violence
- How stereotypes can drive women to quit science
- Sex and gender *Definitions of sex and gender terms
- Men who explain things 3 page article
- A linguistic comparison of recommendation for male and female chemistry and biochemistry job applicants
- Why women wont apply for jobs unless they’re 100 percent qualified
- Faking it: Women, academia, and impostor syndrome
- The glaring blind spot of the me too movement
Session 3: Race
The idea of race as a social construct, microaggressions, the effect of society's attitudes towards race, and people of color's workplace experiences
Background materials
- "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" *Chapter 1
- Levels of racism: A theoretic framework and a gardener's tale
- MTV Decoded: Why color blindness won't end racism
- White fragility
- I, racist
- Fresh Air podcast: The color of law
- Opinion: Open space, closed minds
- Microaggessions matter
- Microaggressions: More than just race
- Why white parents won’t choose black schools
- TEDx Talk: How I stopped worrying and learned to love discussing race
- Race, Ethnicity and NIH Research Awards
- Bursting the white bubble of color blindness
- Racism in academia *A summary of resources
- Reverse racism
- 11 Things white people can do to be real anti-racist allies *Summary
Session 4: Putting it into practice
Hands-on training in bystander intervention: tools for how to interrupt a problematic situation and stand up for colleagues and friends in the moment
- Why do we help less when there is a crowd? *Content warning: rape, violence
- 4 Ds for intervention
- A trip to the grocery store
- What to do if you are witnessing Islamaphobic harassement
- Why bystanders stand by
- Microaggressions in the classroom
- Calling in: A quick guide on when and how
- TEDx Talk: Creating ethical cultures in business