An interdisciplinary team of faculty from the Department of History, Political Science, Criminal Justice and Philosophy attended a one day Institute in March 2020 to better integrate our efforts across the department and to assess learning outcomes for global citizenship.

One major take-a-way from our time together involved an unpacking of Equity and how that relates directly to our diverse student population in the classroom. We spent a considerable time thinking and discussing: given the structural inequities that exist outside and inside our college, what can we as educators do in the classroom and what do the students who suffer the most from inequity need from us?

About the Institute.

This one-day faculty institute focused on how departments can scaffold opportunities across the major for students to engage with public questions; work with diverse others to address pressing local, national, or global issues; and prepare to enter their workplaces with a heighted sense of public responsibility.

For more information from the AAC&U, click here.

For access to the foundational text, the Crucible Moment, click here.

GOALS FOR THE INSTITUTE:

• Provide dedicated space for departmental teams through hands-on work to expand students’ opportunities to deepen their civic knowledge, skills, and values in order to inform their sense of agency and responsibility to the larger world, both locally and globally.
• Offer an abundant set of materials to assist departments seeking to remap civic designs in the major and assess them along the way.
• Make available consultants who have deep knowledge of civic learning, democratic engagements, equity, diversity, and disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
• Expand regional and national networks of peers as departmental teams commit over time to creating majors that foster equity, social responsibility, and public-mindedness.
• Reinforce for faculty members their larger purposes as educators, scholars, and citizens to create inclusive, compassionate, just democratic societies.

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