Curricular Change for Transformational Impact

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Three panels explore the questions of (3.1) How can trauma-informed strategies inform evidence-based practices and culturally inclusive pedagogies as norms? (3.2) How do we (re)center the curriculum as “sites for justice” for our students? and (3.3) What are the intersections between campus climate and the curriculum? In each of these three panels, participants examine how transformation needs to be addressed across curricular, interdisciplinary, and cross-campus work to bring healing into the heart of work around equity.

3.1 How can trauma-informed strategies inform evidence-based practices and culturally inclusive pedagogies as norms?

This session focused on how trauma can originate and spread through individuals and across time. Drawing from the influence trauma has on students, there is an urgent need to incorporate trauma-informed evidence-based practices. This panel also focuses on the psychological impact of trauma on students, and how it affects their views on relationships and sense of self.

Panelists

  • Dr. David Robinson-Morris
    Founder & Chief
    Reimaginelutionary
  • Dr. Mays Imad
    Coordinator of Teaching & Learning Center and Professor of Genetics, Biotechnology, and Bioethics 
    Pima Community College
  • Ijeoma Njaka (meeting chair)

    Senior Program Associate for Equity-Centered Design and Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist
    Georgetown University

Presentation slides

Resources

  • https://native-land.ca/
  • https://ssir.org/articles/entry/addressing_trauma_as_a_pathway_to_social_change
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31001926/
  • Cozolino, L. J. (2013). The social neuroscience of education: Optimizing attachment and learning in the classroom. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328266874_Radical_Love_Revolutionary_Becoming_Creating_an_Ethic_of_Love_in_the_Realm_of_Education_Through_Buddhism_and_Ubuntu
  • https://www.amazon.com/Ubuntu-Buddhism-Higher-Education-Ontological/dp/1138478652
  • https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/sylvia.wynter_-_no.humans.allowed.pdf
  • https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/

3.2 How do we (re)center the curriculum as “sites for justice” for our students?

This panel looks at the current practices colleges use to engage their students, and how many aspects of the current system can be detrimental to student flourishing. Panelists Roopika Risam looks at carceral approaches to pedagogy, while Desiree Forsythe discusses her approach to teaching actionable justice in STEM. Overall, the panel leaves us with an understanding of the need to change college practices: to improve student experience and impact on communities.

Panelists

  • Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
    Associate Professor, Biology
    University of Rhode Island
  • Desiree Forsythe
    Education and outreach coordinator
    PhD candidate
    University of Rhode Island

  • Roopika Risam
    Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English
    Salem State University
  • Susannah McGowan (panel chair)
    Georgetown University

Resources

  • Race After Technology
    Ruha Benjamin
  • http://www.jeffreyarnett.com/ARNETT_Emerging_Adulthood_theory.pdf
  • https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
  • https://www.ciscoramos.com/teachingcontentiousissues/episode1 https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777 https://instructionalcontinuity.georgetown.edu/resources/cndls-podcast/

3.3 What are the intersections between campus climate and the curriculum?

Rosemary Kilkenny 00:42 | Nyree Gray 15:53

College campuses are starting to grapple with their on-campus climate and its intersections with an equitable college experience. Many colleges have begun to measure campus climate, following a push by undergraduate student leaders, and these surveys hope to show colleges how to change faculty practices and mindsets.

Panelists

  • Rosemary Kilkenny, Esq.
    Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity
    Georgetown University
  • Nyree Gray, J.D.
    Associate Vice President and Chief Civil Rights Officer
    Claremont McKenna College
  • Ulili Emore
    (meeting chair)

    Program Manager, Strategic Partnerships & East Mall Projects, Office of EVP & Provost
    University of Texas at Austin

Resources