About the Course
This course focuses heavily on understanding the need to accept and manage diversity, understanding law enforcement culture, understanding how to self-assess and recognizing hidden biases and how to develop a process of continuously becoming culturally competent.
Your Instructor
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Aaron Thompson
Aaron Thompson is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Thompson has a Ph.D. in Sociology in areas of Organizational Behavior and Race and Gender Relations. Dr. Thompson has over 25 years of leadership experience in higher education and business and authored and co-authored many related books. In addition, he has spent numerous years serving on nonprofit boards in leadership roles and has researched, taught and/or consulted in areas of diversity, leadership, ethics, multicultural families, race and ethnic relations, student success, first-year students, retention, cultural competence, and organizational design throughout his personal career.