Professional Development

Faculty Professional Development: Teaching for Inclusive Excellence

Since Fall 2016, 206 faculty members have participated in sessions of our first offering of Teaching for Inclusive Excellence (TIES I), a seminar designed and presented by our Center for Excellence in Teaching in partnership with Romney & Associates. Faculty experienced an engaging, research-based, collaborative, one-day session utilizing an inclusive excellence framework. The training provided context and tools to support the development of courses with more diverse content, create an inclusive learning environment, and facilitate difficult conversations on critical issues. 

Training will continue this year with a new offering of Teaching for Inclusive Excellence (TIES II). To participate in this new faculty training session, please contact Lisa Smith-McQueenie.

Inclusive Excellence Seminar for Staff

All staff will have the opportunity to participate in a required, experiential, all-day Inclusive Excellence seminar. The seminar offerings will start in January 2018 and will be offered multiple times through the spring.

The seminar will address culture, inclusion & equity deepening awareness, understanding, and comfort with integrating these concepts into our perspectives and the work that we do.

Using a social justice framework, the session will explore multiple identities, intersections among identities and experiences of privilege/oppression, and their impact on our lives and work.

Updated as of the January 11, 2018 training session.