Approachable Equity: A Space to Improve Courses for New Faculty and New Students

Have you inherited your class and don’t know where to start to make it your own? Is your class getting bigger and the curriculum just isn’t working anymore? Do you know your classes could use a little touch-up but just don’t have the bandwidth to make those changes? This Community of Practice is designed for newer or first year faculty, as well as faculty teaching larger introductory or STEM D1 courses who want to make their courses better for themselves and for their students. It will be a supportive space where we will work to foster mutual understanding, interrogate our blind spots, and identify which components of our current classroom practices and curricula may be perpetuating inequities and why. We will then explore alternative approaches and tools that promote equity in our teaching and are realistic to implement, with the goal that your students’ success will not be determined by social identity.

This community is facilitated by Ari Chiapella, Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Ph.D., Portland State University, Earth Environment, and Society
Read more about Ari Chiapella on her UVM biography web page.
Questions? Ariana.Chiapella@uvm.edu

Link to Howard Hughes Medical Institution Driving Change: Faculty Communities of Practice