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Inclusive Excellence Teaching Lab

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Inclusive Excellence Teaching Lab

The Inclusive Excellence Teaching Lab provides and cultivates an intellectual community for scholars from across the university who demonstrate their commitment to, and interest in, issues of equity, diversity and inclusion within their curricular and co-curricular approaches.

Through the Lab, we aim to transform teaching, learning and scholarship by developing an inclusive learning environment that stretches across our campus and through the greater educational community. 

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Overview

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Structure and Methods to Achieve Inclusive Excellence

Established as part of our 10-Point Plan to Advance Racial Justice, the Inclusive Excellence Teaching Lab fosters meaningful collaborations that affirm faculty and staff expertise, amplifies student voices, strengthens curricular innovations and promotes peer-to-peer mentoring across disciplines. Led in collaboration by academic and Inclusive Excellence administrators, the IETL provides enhanced training opportunities for faculty and staff to promote inclusive assessment across the university and the broader Quinnipiac community.

The Lab operates by identifying core faculty scholars, known as Inclusive Excellence Teaching Fellows, to serve as liaisons to other professors committed to pursuing a more inclusive approach to their courses and co-curricular offerings. To explore these opportunities for inclusion and rethink educational practices, each of the IETL’s activities, trainings and workshops centers around our six core goals. 

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, and suggest professional development sessions for faculty, staff and students. 

Goal:

  • To incentivize curricular change

Activities:

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

Goal:

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

Activities:

  • Identify and 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 the annual Inclusive Excellence Summer Assembly; professional development seminars based on needs identified through faculty, staff and students; and 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. 

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