Free copies of the book, “Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Strategies for Teaching,” will be available to the first 50 online registrants for the second Teaching Academy Book Club starting this fall.
The academy’s membership consists of select faculty across the Washington State University system who are committed to elevating excellence in teaching and learning. The book club is a top academy initiative.
WSU-wide participation, implementation award
“We welcome faculty from every campus to participate in club groups, which will meet three times for discussions throughout the semester,” said Kara Whitman, academy chair. “We will offer meetings at multiple times, both in-person and using Zoom, to make discussions as available as possible to everyone. We also plan on two implementation workshops.”
Book club participants will consider using ideas presented in the book in their classes. In spring 2024, the academy will present an award for innovative and successful efforts to put book concepts into action.
Free, downloadable e-copies of the book are available from the WSU Libraries.
Editors to be keynote speakers at Oct. 20 TEACHxWSU
Published in 2021, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education editors are Rita Kumar and Brenda Refaei. They are invited to be keynote speakers at the Teaching Academy’s annual TEACHxWSU set for Oct. 20 in the CUB Senior Ballroom. Registration for that event will open in fall.
Both Kumar and Refaei are professors in the Dept. of English and Composition at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (UCBA), a regional campus. Refaei is also co-director of the UCBA Learning and Teaching Center and Kumar is the former executive director of the UCBA Faculty Enrichment Center.
Supported by a new 2023 TCI IDEA grant
Whitman and Ashley Boyd, academy vice chair, received in spring a 2023 Transformational Change Initiative (TCI) grant to advance Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) in support of the book club project.
For answers to questions about the book club or the free copies of Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education, Whitman said to email academy members and book club co-chairs Phillip Morgan or Blythe Duell.
