Implicit Bias Course​

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Do you or your organization need education about implicit bias and gender socialization in the context of student complaints? Do you believe collegiate athletics need to establish expectations for the role of the coach to avoid ambiguous definitions that result in complaints?

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Because of this socialization and bias, administration often has its own expectations regarding how, when or whether athletes should bring concerns forward. This expectation can cause administration to listen more closely to complaints from one group and a less closely to complaints from the other, or how administration or investigators respond to the complaints, even if they come from a place of bias.

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In addition to this, implicit bias can also separately affect the decision of an athlete of whether to complain about a coach and even how to verbalize the complaint. These complaints may have little to do with whether a coach is performing poorly or engaging in behavior that might justify the complaint; instead, they often come from a place of feelings rather than facts.

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Each layer of these socialized, gendered and biased responses creates separate risks to the student, the coach and to the university. These risks cause substantial harm to many programs, coaches and universities. That risk can be managed with knowledge of how bias affects individuals and the implementation of a student complaint policy.

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Without this information, the complaints continue, female coaches are harmed, resources are wasted and coaching, as a profession, is undermined. There is a better way.

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Course Investment:

$100 per individual (without coaching)

$5,000 (coaching included)