Adapting Business Technical and Quantitative Course To Support A College of Business’s Dei Organizational Culture

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Keywords: dei culture, quantititive business courses, inclusive course content

Abstract: In spite of the assumption that diversity, equity, and inclusion (primarily DEI content) are the purview of management courses that focus more on concepts than quantitative issues (such as human resources management and organizational behavioral), with a more indirect approach, people who teach quantitative business courses can contribute to institutional DEI curricula by including course content that is representative of a more diverse society becoming more welcoming and inclusive to a wide range of groups or perspectives (such as gender, race and ethnicity, other native countries, persons with disabilities) in the classroom context.

The purpose of this session will be to identify a range of issues associated with how we can make technical and quantitative courses more inclusive with such considerations as:

1. review of literature about efforts in non business mathematics courses toward making STEM courses more inclusive 2. whether it is appropriate to change quantitative courses to be more inclusive 3. how to adapt existing course content, including textbooks, course content, example problems, cases, discussion questions, data base development and management assignment 4. how to find other business faculty who teach quantitative courses and who also want to adapt their courses to support a more inclusive DEI and setting up a mechanism to share ideas, course materials, and other resources to support making change, and gaining support (and addressing objections) from colleagues within departments, colleges, and the academic profession