For re-appointments, faculty must obtain two annual hours of DEI/AR education, one hour of which must include an anti-racism focus. For each three-year reappointment cycle, faculty must document six total hours of DEI/AR education, three hours of which must include an anti-racism focus.

For new appointments, incoming faculty must obtain one hour of DEI/AR education before their appointment, and two annual hours thereafter for re-appointment. New Clinical Instructors seeking appointment are required to view Dr. Tracey Guthrie's talk, "Racism in Academic Psychiatry: Hiding Behind the Cloak of Benevolence." 

With the exception of emeritus faculty, every DPHB faculty member is required to complete DEI/AR education.

New Clinical Instructors seeking appointment are required to view Dr. Tracey Guthrie's talk, "Racism in Academic Psychiatry: Hiding Behind the Cloak of Benevolence." Please complete the form and submit the automated email with your responses to Holly Wilker with your appointment materials.

Activities on the list of recommended DEI/AR activities meet the DEI/AR requirement.

Other activities may also meet the requirement if they primarily focus on DEI or anti-racist education and provide proof of training. (DEI topics include subjects relating to race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, gender, socio-economic status, age, and physical or mental ability.) If you have participated in an unlisted DEI/AR activity, please submit this request for approval. The working group reviews requests monthly.

Faculty must submit proof of training with other appointment or reappointment materials. DPHB will maintain a list of archived activities for faculty to review before reappointment. 

BioMed is asking faculty to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a criterion for promotion and appointment. DPHB’s new policy is a faculty education requirement for appointment/reappointment. 

An activity must: a) have a primary focus on DEI or anti-racist education and b) provide proof of training. The Anti-Racism Steering Committee’s Faculty Policies Working Group determines whether particular activities meet these thresholds. 

The “listed” activities identified on the website as recommended DEI/AR activities have already been authorized as meeting the requirement. These select activities have the additional benefit of being accessible to all DPHB faculty.

“Unlisted” activities may potentially also meet eligibility thresholds. If a faculty completes an “unlisted” activity, they must submit a request for approval to the working group. The group will evaluate unlisted activities on a case-by-case basis each month.

The working group will not consider activities that primarily focus on a different content area with only a few mentions of DEI/AR topics.

If an educational opportunity focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or justice (DEI) topics more generally, it will be given a DEI designation. This means that completing the activity will count towards the DEI portion of the requirement, but will not towards the specific requirement for anti-racism (AR) training hours. 

If an educational opportunity focuses on at least one of the following topics related to race/racism, then it can be given an “AR” designation (count towards the specific AR training hours required):

• Race and racism, including historical context
• Structural racism
• Racial trauma
• Racial/ethnic health inequities and social determinants of health
• Racism and mental health
• Race, racism, and biomedical research
• Implicit/explicit bias related to race
• White privilege
• White fragility
• How white supremacy has shaped culture
• Racial identity development
• Power and privilege as it relates to racism
• Intersectionality, intersectional fragility including race
• Recognizing, responding to race-based microaggressions
• Acknowledging and addressing your own discomfort around discussing race/racism
• The art of apologies (e.g., how to respond when called out) in instances of racism
• Inclusive, culturally responsive teaching and supervision related to race/racism
• Content that focuses on uplifting/centering BIPOC voices (e.g., panel centering lived experiences, talks describing BIPOC-centered clinical initiatives)

In order for the working group to reliably keep track of completion, it is required that activities have proof of training that goes out to each individual. The working group will not consider sign-up lists or attendance records. Each individual must have something they can submit with their (re)appointment materials. This can include email confirmation of participation or a certificate of participation/attendance. The confirmation should indicate the activity's date and length (i.e., number of hours).

First, assess whether or not your educational activity will be open to all faculty in the department. (There is one potential exception to this rule: If you believe your activity is exceptionally relevant to the topic of DEI/AR, and the goal is to eventually make the activity available to the entire department, a justification can be provided for consideration by the working group.) If you are not able to make your activity available to all faculty in DPHB, then you may consider checking its eligibility as an “unlisted” activity, per the criteria in the FAQs above.

If you believe that your planned educational activity may meet the criteria to be listed for the DEI/AR education requirement, please email Holly Wilker or Stephanie Goldstein. In your email, describe the educational opportunity in detail and how you believe it meets the criteria (Is the topic DEI/AR-focused? Is there proof of training? Is the activity available to the entire department?). 

We recommend that you contact Holly and/or Stephanie prior to the date of your educational activity. This way the activity can be advertised as meeting the DEI/AR requirement, which could potentially drive up attendance. However, it is also acceptable to contact us with a request to make your activity a “listed” activity after the activity has already taken place.

Please consider the following tips when planning:

• Give attendees a robust description of the activity that they can use when submitting their request forms. Make sure the description makes it very clear why the activity would count towards the DEI/AR requirement. 
• To reduce administrative burden, every person attending your activity must submit a request for approval on their own behalf. (For example: If 20 people attend your training, every person who wants the training to count towards their DEI/AR requirement hours must submit the request form.) Help your attendees understand this by providing them the request form link in the confirmation/registration emails. We will not accept only a list of participants and no one can submit once on behalf of a group. 
• If the seminar is part of a series: If every session in a series will qualify for the requirement, then attendees are allowed to submit the entire series in one request form (e.g., ‘Series X - 6 hours (1 hr over 6 weeks)’). If only certain individual seminars within a series will qualify for the requirement, then attendees should submit each seminar in separate forms (e.g., ‘Seminar #1 in Series X - 1 hr’; ‘Seminar #4 in Series X - 1 hr’)

You are welcome *but not required* to check-in with Holly Wilker or Stephanie Goldstein if you have any questions. In your email, describe the educational opportunity in detail and how you believe it meets the eligibility criteria (Is the topic DEI/AR-focused? Is there documentation of participation?). We can also provide more detailed instructions to give your attendees who are interested in requesting that their attendance count towards DEI/AR education requirement hours.