In the 2019-20 academic year, the Center for Faculty Development is offering six Faculty Learning Communities, each focused around a book. To ease scheduling for participants, each Faculty Learning Community will meet during a single quarter and dates and times will be scheduled at the outset.
A faculty learning community is a group of cross-disciplinary faculty (usually 6–12 people) engaging in an active, collaborative program that meets regularly to support each participant's professional development (definition adapted from Miami University, OH). Depending on the chosen book, learning community participants may pick a focus project and agree to apply the ideas, try out innovations, and report back to the group on what they have learned.
The Center for Faculty Development provides you with a copy of the book, refreshments, and a designated “host” for your learning community. At each gathering, you’ll discuss key insights from the assigned reading, questions that arise for you while reading, and, when appropriate, the progress you're making on your own project.
Any Seattle University faculty member, part-time or full-time, can participate in the program.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Remember that day when you attempted to address race in your course, faculty or staff meeting and you wish you hadn’t? Derald Wing Sue’s Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race provides a guide for those who find initiating and participating in discussions about race difficult.
In this four-session Learning Community facilitated by Holly Slay Ferraro (Center for Faculty Development), you’ll read through the book with colleagues and explore the nature of race talk, constraints placed on race talk, and strategies for engaging in race talk more successfully.
Over the four sessions, you'll learn how to:
This community is for any faculty member who wishes to develop their skills for leading and participating in potentially difficult conversations about race.
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence is 274 pages long, and the reading will be split across the four sessions to be manageable for participants.
The four dates in Fall Quarter are:
» Register by 09:00 on Friday, October 4.
Are you interested in seeking concrete tools and strategies for successfully implementing diversity in your department or program? Edna Chun and Alvin Evans’s The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education provides practical, research-based approaches representative of best practices from across the United States to achieve this result.
In this four-session Learning Community facilitated by David Green (Center for Faculty Development), you'll work your way through the chapters of the book so that you are better prepared to lead other faculty in advancing diversity in multiple areas, including tenure and promotion, curricular change, student learning outcomes, departmental climate, and the representation of a diverse faculty and staff.
Over the four sessions, you'll learn how to:
This community is primarily for department chairs and program directors, but other faculty member who are interested in promoting an inclusive learning environment would also benefit from this learning community.
The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader is 181 pages long, and reading will be split across the four sessions to be manageable for participants.
The four dates in Fall Quarter are:
Fri, Oct 25 | 2:00–3:15 | Wismer Room (LOYA 400)
Fri, Nov 8 | 2:00–3:15 | Wismer Room (LOYA 400)
Fri, Nov 22 | 2:00–3:15 | Wismer Room (LOYA 400)
Fri, Dec 6 | 12:45–1:50 | Jolly Lounge (STCN 122)
» Register by 09:00 on Friday, October 4
