Diversifying Economic Quality
Div.E.Q. promotes inclusive, innovative, and evidence-based teaching practices in economics.
This resource is provided by Amanda Bayer and the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. Read more.
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.
- Build RBG for all students.
- 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.
News:
- See Div.E.Q. live at the 2022 ASSA meetings!
- 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. as a diversity initiative having success!