Faculty Development (2011 Strategic Plan)

Faculty need to be aware of how social identities and power reflect on their pedagogical mission and activities. Our expanded Multicultural Requirement at the Division 1 and 2 levels in an important step in this process. While planned diversity programming will go a long way towards creating awareness, faculty also need to continue developing specific capacities to deal with issues of diversity and power within the classroom.

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 * The amount of students who want a queer studies member on their comittee is huge. We need more and permanent positions for queer studies professors. Additionally, professors should have clear administrative guidlines on how to respect preferred names and pronouns in class and on evaluations. Many of my professors seem to have different "official" versions of how to use preferred/legal names in evaluations. -Gaines Blasdel F10
 * I agree with Gaines and also encourage staff awareness and respect in response to students with disabilities, including 'invisible' disabilities so that when a student needs special arrangements it does not impact thier academic standing or progress. I personally struggle with keeping up with classes I miss do to doctors and illness because there isn't adequate classroom documentation to catch me up on topics missed and there is no response in part of the professor to fix this problem. This applies to evaluations as well, such as not having time missed in class impact the evaluations as it is out of the students control in relation to disabilities documented with Joal Dansky. Vincenzo Alexander S11