Addressing Sexual Harassment in STEM

Facilitators: Blair Schneider and Meredith Hastings

This one-day workshop is designed for academic leaders to identify and address sexual and other types of harassment as scientific misconduct and equips individuals and departments with skills to:

• recognize harassment in different research and educational settings and how it is experienced by individuals with different gender, racial and ethnic identities
• implement positive, pro-social direct and indirect behaviors to stop harassment (bystander intervention)
• produce, implement, and enforce ethical codes of conduct
• educate themselves about resources to reduce the harm caused by harassment

Program

The one day workshop consisted of a series of three developmental sessions, as described below.

9:00 - 9:15 - Sign in and Coffee

9:15 – 11:15 - Session 1

• Bias Agression and Privilege Slides - KU Jan 2019 (Acrobat (PDF) 2.4MB Jan17 19)
• ​Addressed privilege, unconscious bias and micro aggressions.
• This session focused on how these topics impact the recruitment and retention in STEM fields, as well as ways individuals can empower themselves to create positive workplace climates.

11:15 – 12:15 - Lunch Discussion and Break

12:15 – 3:15 - Session 2

• ​Bystander Intervention Slides - KU Jan 2019 (Acrobat (PDF) 2.5MB Jan17 19)
• Addressed harassment in different research and educational settings and taught faculty and academic leadership how to be active bystanders.

3:15 – 3:30 - Break

3:30 – 5:00 - Session 3

• Codes of Conduct Slides - KU Jan 2019 (Acrobat (PDF) 253kB Jan17 19)​
• Addressed the development of a departmental Code of Conduct.
• The resources in the session identified necessary elements of effective codes of conduct and provided examples and a template for each department to develop their own Code of Conduct.
• The last part of the session involved the writing of a Code to take to their home faculty.