We're excited to share a Faculty Learning Chat with AVC Contreras and AVC Palmer on November 5 to discuss how to frame the impact of the pandemic on your promotion file, along with other opportunities to engage in conversations around inclusivity and accessibility this month. Read on to learn about upcoming workshops, seminars, and FDI services. As always, we would love to hear from you at [email protected].
Warmly,
The Center for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion
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Framing the Impact of Covid-19 on Your Promotion File
Friday, November 5, 9 - 10 a.m.
Join AVC Frances Contreras and AVC Cindy Palmer for a conversation about how to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on your scholarly productivity and achievement in your promotion file.
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The Potentials of the Concept of the Ideal Student for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education
Monday, October 18, 10 - 11 a.m.
This seminar presented by Dr. Billy Wong is based on higher education research conducted in the UK, with a focus on the potentials of the ideal student concept to alleviate misunderstandings and mismatches in expectations between students and staff.
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The Meaning Beyond the Words: How Language, Race, & Culture Impact Science Teaching & Learning
Thursday, October 21, 9 a.m.
This presentation from Dr. Bryan Brown explores how race, culture, and language intersect to create the condition of contemporary learning. Despite this research, STEM education has failed to adequately explore how issues of race, language, and culture shape the outcomes of teaching and learning in science.
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Collecting & Responding to Student Feedback as an Inclusive Practice
Thursday, October 21, 10 - 11 a.m.
Learn why responding to student feedback is an inclusive practice as well as tips for collecting feedback and best practices for responding to feedback. Set yourself up for success in the remainder of the quarter by valuing student voices to learn what you should keep doing or adjust.
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Teaching for Equity: Strategies for the Classroom
Monday, October 25, 1 - 2 p.m.
In this session, we will recognize and challenge assumptions we might make about students, and consider what actions we are empowered to take to improve student outcomes. We will plan easy-to-implement strategies for personally connecting with students, modeling mastery, and articulating expectations to create a more equitable learning environment.
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Living Mathematx as a Form of Healing: Implications for Teaching and Learning
Monday, November 8, 10 - 11 a.m.
Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez will discuss ideas from ethnomathematics (including Western mathematics), postcolonial theory, aesthetics, biology, enactivism, and Indigenous knowings in order to propose a new vision for practicing mathematics, something she refers to as Living Mathematx.
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Check out these upcoming NCFDD Webinars. You may stream live or watch later. To get online access to webinars, peer mentoring, and other support, please activate your NCFDD membership.
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Tuesday, October 19, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 11, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 30, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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We are offering Faculty Peer Mediation services online. Mediation is an alternative form of conflict resolution that's informal (no paper trail), collaborative, and confidential.
To learn more or to schedule a mediation, please call MarDestinee Perez at (858) 246-1923.
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To request a confidential consultation with Associate Vice Chancellor Frances Contreras, please complete this form and her assistant, Robin Mullins, will be in touch to schedule a Zoom meeting.
AVC Contreras regularly meets with faculty on issues related to faculty diversity, equity, retention and climate.
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Pandemic-Resilient Teaching
The Teaching + Learning Commons has pulled together materials on pandemic-resilient teaching in the classroom this fall. Strategies and resources for adapting remote content for in person teaching, designing for inclusion, and evaluating what teaching modality is right for your course.
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COVID-Related Caregiver Modified Duties Program
Deadline to apply: accepted on a rolling basis
The dynamic nature of the pandemic requires flexible policies. While not a leave program, the UCSD CCMD Program is intended to coordinate with existing leave plans and will cover dependents of all ages, including children and dependent adults and elders. The program will be effective through the 2021-2022 academic year.
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Our networks are committed to promoting scholarship for and by diverse scholars, peer mentoring, and support.
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UC San Diego is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD).
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UC San Diego Center for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion | facultydiversity.ucsd.edu |
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