Faculty, staff can learn about inclusive teaching
LAWRENCE — An annual event at the University of Kansas open to faculty and instructional staff will focus on inclusiveness in higher education.
“Supporting Learning for All Our Students” is the theme of the 2016 KU Teaching Summit. The event is set for 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 18, with the plenary session in 130 Budig Hall.
The keynote, titled “The Benefits and Challenges of Making Excellence Inclusive,” will be presented by Alma Clayton-Pedersen, senior scholar at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She will explore the notion that everyone connected to higher education has a role in addressing the challenges of making excellence inclusive.
Rapid changes in the college-going population, demands for greater effectiveness and accountability, shrinking resources and technological innovations are changing the national landscape of higher education, she said. Enacting Inclusive Excellence principles can prepare the campus community for this era of increased social complexity by placing diversity, broadly and richly defined, at the center of the entire academic enterprise.
Clayton-Pedersen is directing the work of a project called Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future, funded by the National Science Foundation. From 2001 to 2010 she was AAC&U’s vice president for education and institutional renewal. She established Inclusive Excellence, AAC&U’s national initiative to advance the Association’s strategic priority: Aim High and Make Excellence Inclusive.
Other topics at the summit:
- Online teaching
- Designing e-portfolios
- Transforming teaching with collaborative redesign
- Engaging international students
- Using high-fidelity simulations
- Setting ground rules for discussions
- Integrating the Common Book into courses
- Implementing universal design
- Improving graduate writing
- Open education
- Social justice
- Using student reflections to enhance learning.
Attendees are asked to register by Aug. 12. Contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at 785-864-4199 or cte@ku.edu, or register online.
The conference is presented by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of the Provost and the KU Medical Center.