Diversifying Economic Quality
Div.E.Q. promotes inclusive, innovative, and evidence-based teaching practices in economics.
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.
- Help students understand and enjoy the learning process.
- Acknowledge the biases in our textbooks.
- Discuss alternative economic approaches.
- Provide opportunities to do research.
- Teach with nuance and humility.
Students
- Read this note to students written by a fellow student.
All economists
- Follow AEA Best Practices for Economists.
- Learn about CSMGEP programs and resources and share them with your students.
- 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.
- Enrich your curriculum by hosting talks by invited speakers.
- 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.
- Use AEA resources for department chairs.
- Work proactively to ensure that faculty actions and departmental programs and policies embody the AEA’s Best Practices for Economists.
- Compete for AEA recognition and awards.
News:
- Div.E.Q. expands! Check out the AEA’s Best Practices for Economists for evidence-based ways to conduct research, serve as a colleague, work with students, and manage workplaces.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education features Div.E.Q.!
