Goal:

• To build intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness among faculty and staff.

Activities:

• Hold workshops to critically examine the ideas, assumptions and values that impact pedagogical choices and practices leading to a redesign of courses that emphasize co-constructive dialogue with culturally diverse students.

Goal:

• To establish an inclusive pedagogy by transforming curricular and co-curricular offerings guided in part by selected Inclusive Excellence Teaching Fellows.

Activities:

• Review existing courses; propose new designs; serve as a resource to various schools; conduct curriculum audits; suggest professional development sessions for faculty, staff & students.

Goal:

• To incentivize curricular change

Activities:

• Inclusive Excellence Transformation Grants will be offered to faculty & staff partners who would like to develop courses and/or co-curricular opportunities with preference given to collaborative efforts.

Goal:

• To develop a holistic learning environment that inculcates a culture of inclusive excellence.

Activities:

• Identify & execute university-wide lectures, thematic offerings and community partnerships that enhance pedagogy and practice.

Goal:

• To provide professional development that enhances understanding of how issues of identity and bias shape the experiences and intellectual explorations of students, faculty and staff.

Activity:

• Host meetings, conventions, seminars and roundtables including but not limited to: Annual Inclusive Excellence Summer Assembly; professional development seminars based on needs identified through faculty, staff and students; transdisciplinary Communities of Practice.

Goal:

• To assess learning outcomes.

Activity:

• Assessments will include surveys of faculty experiences as they develop a culture of inclusive excellence and student portfolios of co-curricular work. Pedagogical innovations will be evaluated to produce peer-reviewed scholarship that promotes best practices for our university and higher education more broadly.