The Aspire Alliance is excited to host a six-part seminar series built upon work developed through Aspire's Summer Institute, which was piloted in June 2020. The seminar series is grounded in Aspire's Inclusive Faculty Framework and the Collective Impact professional development Aspire has done internally focused on understanding our work on a continuum between social equity and social justice. Through this collaboration we will offer two seminars this fall and four through winter/spring 2021.
Sessions are offered at no cost, are 1.5 hours in length, and will include overview, interactive components, discussion, and take-a-ways. The series will use Zoom to support the seminars.
Registration will be session by session with a cap of 120 participants, however you can indicate interest in the full series to receive reminders to register when the next session registration opens.
OBJECTIVE
Participants in this series will have the opportunity to develop an awareness and understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion along with concepts of identity, power, privilege, and anti-racism in the context of faculty, staff, and administrator responsibilities. Through the process of addressing one's own biases and privilege in our system of oppression, participants build the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to broaden participation in and success for underrepresented groups in STEM fields.
AUDIENCE
This series will be of interest for faculty, faculty developers, staff, administrators and those connected with inclusive practices in higher education.
EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE STATEMENT
The Aspire PD series is grounded in the belief that equity and social justice are key elements of inclusive faculty practices and institutional cultures. The series aims to normalize conversations and promote individual capacity-building exploration of these topics in the context of local institutional and a national Community of Practice.