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The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) was founded to combat cheating, plagiarism, and academic dishonesty in higher education. ICAI encourages, supports, and shares research that predicts, describes, and responds to trends and issues relating to academic integrity standards and practices.

Bestselling author Derald Wing Sue explains what a microaggression is, how it manifests itself, how it impacts people, and what can be done to address it.

In Chicago, police have shot and killed more people in recent years than in any of the 10 largest cities in America. Yet officers are rarely disciplined. A retired officer who investigated excessive force complaints explains why.

Microaggressions are those super annoying, often inadvertent insults that frame people of color as part of a stereotype rather than individuals with their own unique identities. Not only are they insulting, but people of color have to deal with them EVERYDAY. This got Francesca thinking, what if white people were to experience racial microaggressions? Find out on this week's episode of Decoded!

Microaggressions 
in 
the
 classroom
 committed
 against
 students
 representing
 a
 diversity
 of
 groups
 continues 
to
 be 
a
challenge 
at 
the 
University
 of
 Denver.
 T
his
 document
was 
developed
 by 
the 
authors 
(three
DU 
students
 and
 an
 administrator) 
to assist 
faculty,
 instructors, 
and
 teaching
 assistants 
in
 addressing
 and
 preventing 
microaggressions 
in 
the 
classroom.

This guide is for the adults in the school. It offers advice about how to respond to remarks made by students and by other adults and gives guidance for helping students learn to speak up as well. We believe that modeling the kind of behavior we want from students is one of the most effective ways of teaching it.