Empowering Students to Recognize and Foster More Inclusive Workplaces

This video from InnovATEBIO highlights how community colleges can empower their students to recognize, request, and foster more inclusive workplace practices. Practical tools that strengthen the working relationship between student interns and their internship mentors are explored. These tools include those that help establish better training protocols, make workplace expectations more explicit, identify knowledge gaps and/or misunderstandings, and highlight approaches in giving and receiving feedback so as to build greater trust and engagement. San Francisco City College's biotechnology program and student internships for the biotechnology program are highlighted. Inclusive and non-inclusive workplaces are also defined, the ethos of conformity and ethos of collaboration are contrasted, and student response data about internship experiences is provided. The video recording runs 55:02 minutes in length.