Thank you for your post! I really appreciate your honesty and your willingness to engage in this conversation. And I am excited to continue this conversation throughout the rest of the semester. I think it is so important for us all to engage in these conversations, particularly those of us in the majority. While it can be challenging to talk about, I have found it so rewarding to have these conversations and to listen to other people’s stories and perspectives which has broadened my own perspective.Thanks for your post!

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Thank you for the post! And thank you Ernesto for adding the list of negative impacts of marginalization! I really appreciate the points in this post about the value of students’ backgrounds and the importance, as instructors, of understanding our own biases. And this is definitely a conversation that we need to have and it is a difficult conversation. Do you have thoughts on overcoming that “autopilot mode” and creating those inclusive environments for students? I am excited to continue in this conversation! Thanks for the post!

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I really enjoyed your post and you brought up so many great points! Being a woman in engineering, I have definitely experienced gender biases in educational settings. And as a result of that, I never wanted to ask questions in class and let people know that I didn’t know the material. So I really appreciate your point about trying to reduce some of the barriers in classrooms that prevent students from asking questions. I think in engineering, and probably other STEM fields as well, there is this idea that you should be able to figure everything out on your own (or already know the material in some cases) in order to be successful in engineering. But engineering is about collaboration and working with others. So why don’t we incorporate more of that perspective in educational contexts and encourage students to ask questions and encourage students to work together to figure out the answer? Thanks for your post!

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