Faculty Learning Community for Understanding and Developing an Inclusive Campus Climate

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Faculty Learning Community for Understanding and
Developing an Inclusive Campus Climate

• Jerry Sarquis, LC member, CELT FTA
• Ron Scott, LC facilitator, CELT FTA

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Charge

• How to create an inclusive campus climate
• inside classroom
• outside classroom
• What is inclusion?
• relationship to diversity
• ways of enhancing classroom/non-classroom
  environments by making them more inclusive.
• Topics
• factors that complicate inclusive environments
• developing an inclusive syllabus, course content,
  process
• understanding of self and student identity
  (including campus demographics)
• assessment skills

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Membership24 Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

• Family Studies and Social Work
• Educational Leadership
• Communication
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• English
• Psychology
• Comparative Religion
• Student Affairs

• Educational Psychology
• Anthropology
• Management
• Aerospace Studies
• Classics
• Sociology
• Gerontology
• Black World Studies
• King Library
• Physical Education, Health, and Sport Studies

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Spring, 2006

• LC meetings
• two groups of 12 each
• 6 LC meetings
• Agenda
• respond to issues and concerns of members
• build a cohesive sense of community
• develop a final project
• Discussion topics
• Defining Inclusion
• White Privilege
• Identity
• Inclusive Syllabi
• Best Practices

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Goals

• Developing knowledge and skills
• to design a group project
• build individual expertise
• Readings and resources
• available on Blackboard

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FLC Project

• Campus Diversity
• . . . we have also come to understand that
  diversity is central to a high-quality
  education. (Dr. David Hodge, Inauguration)
• Associate Vice President for Institutional
  Diversity
• Workshop for new faculty
• endorsed by Dr. Hodge
• NCORE Proposal

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New Faculty Workshop

• Goals
• value of inclusion/diversity
• creating a welcoming environment
• embracing and learning from differences

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How?

• inclusive syllabus
• campus demographics
• learning style information
• student perspective
• lessons we (FLC) have learned
• FLC members with expertise
• resources
• FLC web page

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NCORENational Conference on Race Ethnicity

• Team of 5 to Chicago, May, 2006
• NCORE proposal ? May, 2007

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NCORE 2007 Proposal

• Moving Beyond Talk to Action The FLC as a
  Proactive Model for Improving Classroom and
  Campus Inclusion
• Ways to help students engage a sense of self
• Prevent exclusion in course content dialogue due
  to
• ethnicity
• gender/sexual orientation
• physical ability
• religion
• class

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Sampling of Related Events

• Pros and Cons of Using Technology to Enhance
  Student Inclusion and Engagement
• Creating a Learning Environment That Is Inclusive
  of Sexuality and Gender (Kira Hall)
• Faculty and Student Views on Inclusive Classrooms
• Modeling Empathy, Facilitating Deep Learning, and
  Facing the Conversations That We Dread Race,
  Gender, and Class in the College Classroom (J.
  Munroe)
• Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching

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Funding

• Center for the Enhancement of Learning and
  Teaching (Milt Cox)
• The Center for American and World Cultures (Mary
  Jane Berman)
• Center for Writing Excellence (Paul Anderson)

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FLC Members

• Richard L. Bretz
• Ruth Crego-Ulvin
• Celeste Didlick-Davis
• Kathleen German
• Patricia K. Kerig
• Philip McCormick
• Kathy McMahon-Klosterman
• Ronald Scott
• Carolyn Slotten
• Mark A. Smith
• Lisa Weems
• Kiana Williams
• Frances Yates

• Deborah Akers
• Yu-Fang Cho
• Rodney D. Coates
• Donald A. Daiker
• Jason Gutekunst
• Joseph W. Leonard
• Karen Mitchell
• Lauren S. Morimoto
• Lisa Poirier
• Capt. Brett T. Sammis
• Jerry Sarquis
• Ronald Scott,
• Zara M. Torlone