Loyola Marymount University President Timothy Law Snyder, Ph.D., and Loyola Law School Dean Michael Waterstone will host upcoming leadership development retreats on implicit bias for faculty and staff. The first retreat will take place on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to noon at Loyola Law School, hosted by Dean Waterstone. The second will take place on Friday, Oct. 28, from 9 a.m. to noon on the LMU Westchester campus, hosted by President Snyder.
These retreats are the kickoff events of a three-year Implicit Bias Presidential Initiative for LMU faculty, staff, and students, and reflect the high priority the university is putting on this issue.
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes that affect in an unconscious manner our understanding, actions and decisions. One of the goals of the sessions is to help administrators, faculty, staff, and students achieve bias literacy by developing an in-depth understanding of how our minds work, the real-world implications of our implicit biases on numerous aspects of people’s daily lives, and research-based strategies for mitigating bias.
The events will feature a keynote address by Sharon L. Davies, J.D., executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, followed with breakout sessions focused on strategies for mitigating implicit bias. The retreats will end with networking luncheons.
The events are sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Affairs led by Vice President Abbie Robinson-Armstrong, Ph.D.