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Abstract Keywords: LGBTQIA+, Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Safe Zone Ally Training workshops are interactive sessions where participants learn about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, identities, and issues with the goal of creating a campus Safe Zone. These workshops are necessary because LGBTQ students and faculty on college campuses still experience harassment, exclusionary behavior, and discrimination. This is especially true in STEM departments. This second level workshop builds on content presented in the Level 1 workshop and focused on helping participants to understand and identify specific concepts and implications of privilege, bias, and microaggressions. Participants will identify various heterosexual and cisgender privileges are and discuss how privileges can be leveraged to help others. They will also learn what biases are, recognize that everyone has biases learned through the social environment in which they have lived and worked, and identify ways to reduce the impacts of biases. Finally, participants will be presented with research regarding the climate for LGBTQ individuals in engineering and STEM and its broader impacts and implications so that they can be better prepared to contribute to an inclusive environment for LGBTQ individuals through implementing inclusive strategies.
Farrell et al. (Tue,) studied this question.