Faculty Learning Community for Understanding and Developing an Inclusive Campus Climate

1. Faculty Learning Community for Understanding and Developing an Inclusive Campus Climate Jerry Sarquis, LC member, CELT FTA Ron Scott, LC facilitator, CELT FTA

2. 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

3. 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 Membership24 Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

4. 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 • …

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

9. 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

10. New Faculty Workshop • Goals • value of inclusion/diversity • creating a welcoming environment • embracing and learning from differences

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

12. NCORENational Conference on Race & Ethnicity • Team of 5 to Chicago, May, 2006 • NCORE proposal  May, 2007

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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 FLC Members