# Julie Park: Discrimination and Student-Faculty Interaction in STEM

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**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/julie-park-discrimination-and-student-faculty-interaction-in-stem/3589 "2018-12-18T19:45:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/julie-park-discrimination-and-student-faculty-interaction-in-stem/3589/11 "2019-01-11T19:59:39Z")

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> [@NLENTS](#):
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> In your study, the specific negative effect of faculty contact on black students is devastating.

I agree, and this is most concerning to many of us. See what @Jordan writes:

> [@Side Comments on Discrimination in STEM](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/side-comments-on-discrimination-in-stem/3591/9):
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> I find the idea of student-faculty interactions being simultaneously important and “risky” to be very disconcerting.
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> I certainly want the minority students in my classroom to feel that I am supportive and approachable. I just worry about unknowingly doing/saying something offensive or unhelpful and then I don’t have a chance to clarify or remedy my mistake.

@Julie_Park, can you help us understand this in some more depth. Can you explain some examples of faculty-student interactions that backfire? What do they look like? What do positive faculty-student interactions look like, in contrast? Some stories on good and bad interactions would be very helpful for me, and suspect the others here too.

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