Participants' Words

"This was a useful and well-planned out workshop on a very important subject."

"The workshop presentations were fabulous."

"It was fairly quick and valued added throughout."

Participation By College

The UMass Lowell (UML) Making WAVES team developed a robust, faculty-led, interactive Bystander Training program. 12 faculty “Equity Leaders” (ELs) worked with WAVES to design the original UML-specific interactive workshop.

To date, 238 people have participated in 21 workshops, including one chairs’ retreat, one College of Sciences training, and one Manning School of Business training. Participants in the open enrollment workshops come from EVERY STEM department and all colleges:

Graphic showing Participation By College: 20.9% of participants come from Francis College of Engineering 18.8% of participants come from College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 11.2% of participants come from Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences 17% of participants come from Kennedy College of Sciences 12.6% of participants come from Manning School of Business 4.3% of participants come from College of Education And 15.2% of participants come from come from the university administration.
  • 20.9% of participants come from Francis College of Engineering
  • 18.8% of participants come from College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 11.2% of participants come from Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
  • 17% of participants come from Kennedy College of Sciences
  • 12.6% of participants come from Manning School of Business
  • 4.3% of participants come from College of Education
  • And 15.2% of participants come from come from the university administration.
Graphic showing Participant Demographics: Of all the participants, 61% of them are female. In terms of faculty rank, 39% of the participants are tenured faculty members at UMass Lowell.

Participant Demographics

Of all the participants, 61% of them are female.

In terms of faculty rank, 39% of the participants are tenured faculty members at UML.

"Microaggressions are “the everyday slights indignities, put down and insults that people of color, women, LGBT populations or those who are marginalized experiences in their day-to-day interactions with people."

- Dr. Derald W. Sue

Graphic showing 97 orange stick figure people and three black stick figure people to indicate 97 out of 100.

97% of participants endorsed the value of the workshop and indicated that they recommend the workshop to their colleagues

So far, 97% of participants endorsed the value of the workshop and indicated that they would recommend this workshop to their colleagues.

Post-workshop evaluations have showed positive results:

  • 84% of participants agreed that they have the skills to support a faculty member who is being treated disrespectfully.
  • 85% of participants said that they would say something to a colleague who is acting disrespectfully to another colleague.
  • 86% of participants said that it is their responsibility to intervene when they notice subtle bias.

These results indicated that after attending the workshops, participants overall not only were able to notice microaggressions, but they also knew how to intervene and were willing to do so.

  • 84%

    have skills to support a faculty member who is being treated disrespectfully.

  • 85%

    would say something to a colleague who is acting disrespectfully to another colleague.

  • 86%

    say it is their responsibility to intervene when they notice subtle bias.