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Sherrie Quade

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Controversy in the Classroom: The Winter Discussion of Inclusive Classroom Practices and Topics Relevant to Faculty

The Winter Faculty Community of Practice Discussion of the 2019-2020 academic year will address the issue of ‘Controversy in the Classroom’. A faculty community of practice discussion is a facilitated peer dialogue that allows members of the professoriate to share practical knowledge about an area of common interest or concern that can be applied to work on campus to enhance teaching, learning and the employee experience.

The following pre-reads will inform our discussion:

  • “When the Culture War Comes to Class”:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/When-the-Culture-War-Comes-to/248016?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=4367381

  • “Getting Started with Managing Classroom Conflict”:

https://teaching.cornell.edu/resource/getting-started-managing-classroom-conflict

  • “Creating a Community of Learners that Reflects Mutual Respect”:
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-classroom-management/creating-community-of-learners-that-reflects-respect/?st=FFWeekly;s=FFWeekly191011;utm_term=FFWeekly191011&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=How+Can+You+Guide+Online+Learning+By+Engaging+with+Students%3F+We+Have+the+Answer&utm_campaign=FF191011
  • “Teaching Strategies: Disrespect and Disruption in the College Classroom”:

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/disruption

When:  Wednesday, March 11 from 4:30 pm until 6:00 pm

Where:  Warch Campus Center, Hurvis Room

RSVP:    div-inclusion@lawrence.edu

‘Prom Night in Mississippi’ Film

Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy® Award-winning Toronto-based film and television producer-director with over 300 productions to his credit.

After briefly studying Engineering Science, he did congressional civil rights lobbying in Washington, D.C., and voter registration work in Mississippi, which would later lead him to go back to the area to explore the concept of race and racism with ‘Prom Night in Mississippi’.

Film with discussion to follow.

When:  Tuesday, February 25, 2020 from 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Where: Warch Campus Center, Cinema

Cultural Competency Lecture Series: Katie Schweighofer, “Everyday Sexism?”

Over 100 years since women were granted the right to vote and 50 years after the feminist uprising of the 1970’s, sexism still runs through our everyday lives. From ongoing transphobia and homophobia to the recent resurgence in virulent and violent forms of public misogyny, sexism is both more visible and somehow more subtle than ever. We will discuss where and how sexism and gender discrimination surface, and how they operate today in our classrooms, workplaces, homes, and communities.

When: Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Where: Warch Campus Center, Esch Hurvis Room (225)

RSVP: div-inclusion@lawrence.edu

Toward One Wisconsin Conference

A Conference on Building Communities of Equity and Opportunity

April 28-29, 2020

Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Green Bay, Wisconsin

At last year’s inaugural conference, 500 people from across the state came together to address persistent barriers to inclusivity. This year you can be a part of building communities of equity and opportunity.

Keynote Speakers: Hilary Ware is vice president and associate general counsel, litigation and regulatory affairs, at Netflix in San Francisco; and Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative journalist with The New York Times Magazine who focuses on racial injustice.

Register at: https://inclusivity-wi.org/register

Faculty and Staff Emotional Well-Being Circle Interest Meeting

Join us on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 from 4:30-5:30 pm

Warch Campus Center, 127 Parrish Private Dining Room

Facilitated to Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Dr. Richard Jazdzewski, Associate Dean of Students for Wellness Services.

RSVP to: div-inclusion@lawrence.edu

Women on Campus Coffee Hour

On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 1:00 pm please join us the the Women on Campus Coffee Hour in the Warch Campus Center, Nathan Marsh Room 325.

These once-a-term events provide opportunities for female-identifying faculty and staff to come together for conversation and coffee in order to create a network of support and discuss strategies to thrive on campus as the university continues to aspire to achieve gender equity.

Email registrations to: div-inclusion@lawrence.edu

Join Us for the First Cultural Competency Lecture of Winter Term!

Cecile Despres-Berry will deliver the first cultural competency lecture of 2020 on Tuesday, 1/28 at 11:15 in the Warch Campus Center’s Hurvis Room: “ELF: English as a Lingua Franca at Lawrence.”

“Lawrence University is a diverse community comprised of English speakers from many different first languages and dialects of English,” explained Cecile. “English is our lingua franca, but these variations in language background affect how an individual participates in a conversation.”

Learn more about how conversational culture varies, and investigate your own unconscious conversational preferences and biases so that you can use this knowledge to become a more effective communicator in English.