Instructors

• Add these videos to your course.
• Share a growth mindset with your students.
• Use active learning techniques.
• Offer wise feedback to build trust across identity differences.
• Consider the impact of wait time.
• Promote inclusive communication.
• Establish class discussion guidelines.
• Get to know your students as individuals.
• Reduce stereotype threat.
• Provide course content that all students find relevant.
• Develop a smart assessment strategy.
• Share these study tips.
• Align course content with Div.E.Q. Standards for Introducing Economics to High School and College Students.
• Assess the gender and racial balance of your syllabus.
• Acknowledge the biases in our textbooks.
• Teach anti-racist courses.
• Discuss alternative economic approaches.
• Employ technology wisely.
• Incorporate service learning.
• Provide opportunities to do research.
• Reflect on personal prejudices.
• Reduce structural barriers in your classroom.
• Teach with nuance and humility.

Students

• Read this note to students written by a fellow student.

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All economists

• Follow AEA Best Practices for Economists.
• Educate yourself on the history of race and racism in the economy and in economics itself, and then take action.
• Read about the professional climate in economics and note that the vast majority of economists believe economics would be a more vibrant discipline if it were more diverse.

Departments

• Actively recruit students who may be underprepared, unsure, or unaware.
• Update your department webpage to share information and opportunities broadly.
• Diversify your speakers using the Diversifying Economics Seminars database.
• Organize and support mentoring by faculty and by peers.
• Design your curriculum to teach essential competencies in economics, and provide students with learning outcomes and rubrics.
• Move beyond the standard introduction to economics.
• Offer a course on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Economics.
• Develop a bridge program.
• Recruit and retain a diverse faculty.
• Take a proactive approach to building diversity and inclusion. Work to ensure that faculty actions and departmental programs and policies embody the AEA’s Best Practices for Economists Building a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Productive Profession. Appoint a departmental diversity and inclusion committee to help.
• Compete for AEA recognition and awards.