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Diversity
Monday Musing: Combating Bias by Redesigning the Interview Process
This week’s musing isn’t even going to take me the usual 15 minutes. Here, read this: How to Take the Bias Out of Interviews.I’ve written about challenge-based …
Wordless Wednesday: We Can Do It
Image: R. Black (http://rblack.org/) #labor #inclusion #diversity#AAM2016 Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and …
Your Guide to Labor 3.0 at the Annual Meeting
Hi, Nicole here! I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to at CFM around the issue of museums and labor and invite you to join in at this year’s annual meeting. Image credit: R. Black …
Museum Studies Programs & Tools for Creating More Inclusive Curricula
The graduates of museum studies programs are overwhelmingly white and female. If we want museums to be staffed by people who reflect the American public, we can broaden our search beyond …
Creating a More Inclusive Museum: Welcoming LGBT Students and Visitors
One of the important and difficult topics I delve into in TrendsWatch 2016 is the interplay of identity, representation, and inclusion. As I explore in the report, American society is …
Do-ing Diversity in Museums
Chris Taylor’s commitment to helping his institution make traction in conversations about diversity, inclusion, and professional development led to the creation of The Department of …
Museums & Employment: Casting a Wider Net
Diversifying the museum workforce is going to involve all players in the labor market rethinking traditional assumptions. In her January guest post (“One Graduate’s Job Search …
Museum Magazine and The Future of Diversity
Since CFM launched in 2008, I’ve been aware of the danger of our work being the proverbial mile wide and an inch deep. That is why the CFM Fellow program, now in its infancy, is so …
The Labor of Diversity
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums serve as places of collaboration, education, and reflection. They exist in stunning …
A Bodacious Commitment to Diversity
Yesterday the Mellon Foundation released a report based on the first comprehensive survey of the demographics of art museum staff. For the most part, it documents what we already knew: …
So this museum geek walks into an academic research meeting…
Earlier this month I was in London, participating in the Diversity, (In)equality and Differences workshop organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities. As I …
Tapping into TransAtlantic Research on Diversity & Inequality
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in London, representing the Alliance at the “Diversity, (In)equality and Differences” workshop organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences …