Center for Teaching and Learning Diversity Discussion Groups

Center for Teaching and Learning
Since its inception in 2000 the Center for Teaching and Learning has worked steadily at raising the awareness of the faculty about issues of gender and racial equality. Towards that end the Center has hosted or co-hosted a variety of discussion groups in a variety of different formats. There have been widely attended lunches to discuss ways to make a classroom more hospitable to minority groups and smaller, semester-long reading groups focused on feminist pedagogy or teaching for greater equality. The Center has also co-sponsored a discussion group for female science majors called Women in Science Careers.

Spring 2001

Large faculty lunch discussion of feminist issues in teaching (30)

Fall 2001

Co-ed faculty group (12)
Martin, Jane Roland. Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women’s Hopes and Transforming the Academy.

Spring 2002

Co-ed faculty group (10)
Mayberry, Maralee and Ellen Rose, eds. Meeting the Challenge: Innovative Feminist Pedagogies in Action.

Fall 2002

Faculty luncheon on the Hospitable Classroom (28)

Spring 2003

Co-ed and multi-racial faculty group (14)
Davis, S. and M. Crawford, eds. Coming Into Her Own: Encouraging Success in Girls and Women.
Luke, Carmen, ed. Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.

Fall 2003

Co-ed and multi-racial group (10)
Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change.

Spring 2004

Women in Science Careers : bi-weekly discussion group with women science majors; varied readings

Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

Women in Science Careers : monthly discussion with women science majors

Fall 2005

Women’s group bridging student/spiritual and academics (20)
Discussion of positive solutions for specified issues (getting respect from students, respect from colleagues, asking favors, finding balance, family friendly solutions)         
Ways and Means Luncheon (9)         
Reading and discussing an article on cultural otherness and pedagogy

Spring 2006

Women’s group bridging student/spiritual and academics (20)
Discussion of positive solutions for specified issues (friends and family; teachable spirits; the sisterhood universal; God’s feminine side [outside speaker]; inner strength, its spiritual grounding and the practices that nurture it; supporting each other across color lines; supporting each other across departmental/area boundaries

2005-2007

Scholarship to facilitate coordination of POL 190 Politics of Race Class and Gender and THE 306 Life of Holiness