Dear Colleagues, I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s [...]
Faculty Workshop on Best Equitable Practices in Teaching: Transitioning to the “Post-Pandemic” Classroom Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | Hershey Hall, Room 158 9am - 4:30 pm followed by Reception Sessions will feature faculty and student guest speakers We are now in the midst of a transition to a “new normal” in what many refer to [...]
Benjamin Hà October 18 | 3:00 – 4:00pm PDT Interdisciplinary approaches to advancing anti-racist pedagogies in biology higher education Register Here This talk will review the course structure and pedagogical strategies applied when teaching an undergraduate seminar titled “The History and Racism of Biology Research.” While this course covered broad biology disciplines, many of the strategies [...]
Manuel Ramirez October 25 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm PDT Academic Experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color at UCLA Register here Using qualitative interview data from the UCLA LGBTQ+ Campus Resource Center’s 2023 QTBIPOC Student Experiences Project, we highlight the unique experiences that our QTBIPOC students face on our campus and how to address [...]
Get Your Syllabus Ready for Winter Quarter! Join CEILS Director, Rachel Kennison and Senior Associate Director, Jess Gregg, for a virtual workshop on Inclusive Syllabus Design. We will share some examples, strategies, and resources to support you in getting your syllabus created. December 8th, 2023 | 9:30 - 11am Virtual on Zoom (link will be [...]
End of Quarter CEILS Happy Hour Friday, December 8th | 2:00 - 4:00pm Hershey Hall South Courtyard You're invited to celebrate the end of the Fall Quarter with food, refreshments, and quality time together! Please join us anytime between 2:00 - 4:00pm. RSVP at the link below!
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Jan 23: Melissa Paquette-Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in Introductory Psychology Zoom Option Available.
Save the Dates for Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Jan 30: Peter Fisher, PhD graduate, Social Psychology, UCLA Leveraging Dynamic Social Norms to Motivate Conversations on Difficult Topics in the Classroom
The CEILS Becoming an Anti-racist Educator (B.A.A.E) Conversations encourages honest and vulnerable dialogue with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students around the unpracticed conversations about race and racism. These in-person conversations create space for discussion of one’s own racial identity development, understanding the implications of our racial identities and other social identities in our academic learning [...]
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Feb 6: Britney Robinson (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator, UCLA Physical Sciences Division) & JoAnn Roberts (Associate Director for JEDI in Teaching, CEILS) Metacognitive approaches to prepare incoming students for STEM majors: Impacts & Lessons Learned from a Physical Sciences Bridge Program