Center for Education, Innovation, and Learning in the Sciences

CEILS Teaching Table for STEM Classrooms: Reflecting on the Fall Quarter; Planning for Winter Quarter
2024-12-06 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join a community of educators in exploring, innovating, and collaborating on teaching topics! RSVP to secure your spot today!
Instructors across the Life and Physical Sciences are invited to participate. Those who attend a minimum of 4 of the 6 sessions will receive a certificate of completion for their dossier.
Fridays 12:30 – 2 pm, Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100
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CEILS Teaching Table for STEM Classrooms: Campus Partners Meet-and-Greet; Supporting Student Wellness and Responding to Students in Crisis
2024-11-22 12:30 - 14:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CEILS Teaching Table for STEM Classrooms: Building Community and Sense of Belonging in Your Course; Scenario Planning for Adapting Your Course During Campus Disruptions
2024-10-18 12:30 - 14:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Fostering Curiosity: CEILS Annual Faculty Teaching Workshop
2024-09-20 09:00 - 15:00, 2024-09-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Hershey Hall 158
This year, our annual workshop will focus on approaching your teaching with curiosity as a way to manage the highs and lows in the classroom and prioritize our well-being. Our goal is to provide you with resources, concrete strategies, and practice to maximize student success. We invite you to join us and engage in any or all of the three experiences described below:

Come share and discuss strategies for setting up your classroom as a learning community, designing an inclusive syllabus that provokes curiosity, and creating assessments designed for equitable learning opportunities.
Engage with invited instructors, who will present lightning talks followed by a panel discussion on how they are approaching teaching and meeting the challenges of today. Those topics include embracing AI within their disciplines, designing courses to allow for pivot in format if needed, addressing student wellness needs, and leveraging technology to reduce workload without negatively impacting learning.
Meet key leaders at our resource fair social (lunch provided) from across campus that support student success and well-being. You may often refer students to these campus centers so please stop by so you can meet the dedicated folks who serve the campus at the Center for Accessible Education, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Career Center, Undergraduate Research Center, Library, and more.

All are welcome to join this community of caring instructors who are excited to talk about teaching! We especially encourage instructors who either are relatively new to college teaching or who have instructional responsibilities in large enrollment gateway courses for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors.
Record your participation in your dossier as evidence of your efforts to improve teaching and as an activity that helps promote equal opportunity and diversity in education. Such efforts in both categories, on behalf of all faculty, are now a recognized component of the promotion and tenure process at UCLA (see APM 210-1, and Appendix 41).
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Learning Community: UCLA Early Career Faculty in the Sciences-"End of Year Reflections - Goal Setting for Next Year"
2024-06-06 12:30 - 14:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The CEILS team invites you to carve out a little time to gather in the community and get support from each other on all things related to teaching here at UCLA. This community is designed to support early career faculty across disciplines in the sciences who have joined UCLA within the past 5 years. Lunch provided!
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ED Talks-"Generative AI in 2024: Exploring Emerging Practices in Teaching and Learning" by Jess Gregg M.A., Ed.M., LMFT. (she/her)
2024-05-23 14:00 - 15:00
Located: Terasaki Rm 1100 and Zoom
It has been less than two years since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, but rapid development of new AI tools has led to adoption by millions of users around the world, with full applications still unknown and untested. In this talk we will take a look at some of the emerging practices in higher education for teaching and learning that instructors can integrate into STEM courses here at UCLA and discuss potential future impacts as well as concerns related to AI.
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ED Talks Teaching-as-Research Lightning Talks by CIRTL Scholars followed by a Happy Hour
2024-05-16 14:00 - 15:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Located: Terasaki Rm 1100 and Zoom
Join us to hear three CIRTL@UCLA Scholars share their “Teaching-as-Research” findings. We have the following three talks lined up for this session:

Andrew Ramirez, PhD candidate, Bioengineering. Integrating Equity Principles into Bioengineering Machine Learning Curriculum
Emily Neer, PhD candidate, Psychology. Encouraging Undergraduate Students to Rest: A Classroom Intervention Study
Hannah Tandy, PhD candidate, Geology. Student feelings of Diversity and Belonging – Including Historical Context in Introduction to Oceanography

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ED Talks-“Enacting Inclusive Science in STEMM Teaching and Training” by Ana Romero
2024-05-02 14:00 - 15:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Located: Terasaki Rm 1100 and Zoom
EdTalks: “Enacting Inclusive Science in STEMM Teaching and Training” by Ana Romero, Associate Project Scientist, NIH Coordination and Evaluation Center
Integration of diversity in scientific training, teaching, and inquiry is pivotal to developing an inclusive approach to science. In this talk, Dr. Ana Romero shares research findings on culturally responsive practices used to teach and train undergraduate students in STEMM from a study on the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) initiative.
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Center for Inclusive Education- Stony Brook University, NY: "The Risk and the Resistance in STEM"
2024-05-02 07:00 - 08:30
“To be Black or Brown and graduate in STEM is an act of racial justice.”
I say this almost unconditionally because Black and Brown STEMmers overwhelmingly want to use their skills towards fighting for racial justice.”
– Dr. Ebony McGee
On Thursday, May 2nd at 10:00 am EST, The Center for Inclusive Education at Stony Brook University is excited to announce that renowned author of Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation, Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, will join us in person (Zoom option available) for an open conversation on the intricate landscape of the STEM ecosystem, scrutinizing the prevailing risks associated with its current state and demographics. Dr. McGee’s keynote will outline the consequential impact of these risks on individuals and communities within STEM. Finally, we will step into the realm of resistance, exploring practical strategies for combatting these issues.
This transformative event promises to delve deep into the critical issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
The Risk and the Resistance in STEM
Date: May 2nd
Keynote Presentation: 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST
Location: Zoom
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Conversations on Equity and Justice in Teaching: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
2024-04-23 12:30 - 13:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
CEILS invites you to join us for “Conversations on Equity and Justice” this Spring Quarter. Our overall goal is to create a communal space for faculty, teaching-staff, postdocs, graduate students to discuss, learn, and consider teaching strategies to support themselves and their students in the classroom. These conversations are topic-based and you can drop in for one or come for all. Light refreshments will be provided!

Tuesday, April 9 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Our Brains, Emotions, and Learning: Eight Principles of Trauma-Informed Teaching by Mays Imad
Tuesday, April 16 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: How Trauma-Informed Care Principles Can Contribute to Academic Success for Students in Hispanic-Serving Institutions by Joy Patton and Lauren Cortez
Tuesday, April 23 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billings

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Conversations on Equity and Justice in Teaching: Trauma-Informed Care Principles in HSI's
2024-04-16 12:30 - 13:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Learning Community: UCLA Early Career Faculty in the Sciences-"Equitable Grading Strategies for Assessment and Feedback"
2024-04-11 12:30 - 14:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Conversations on Equity and Justice in Teaching: Trauma-Informed Teaching
2024-04-09 12:30 - 13:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CEILS Happy Hour
2024-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall South Courtyard
You’re invited to celebrate the end of the Winter Quarter with food, refreshments, and quality time together! Please join us anytime between 3:00 – 5:00pm in the Hershey Hall South Courtyard.

Learning Community: UCLA Early Career Faculty in the Sciences
2024-03-21 12:30 - 14:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The CEILS team invites you to carve out a little time to gather in the community and get support from each other on all things related to teaching here at UCLA. This community is designed to support early career faculty across disciplines in the sciences who have joined UCLA within the past 5 years. Lunch provided!

RECONNECT: The CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning
2024-02-23 08:00 - 2024-02-24 17:00 | In-person and Online
RECONNECT: The CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning
California State University, San Bernardino
February 23-24, 2024 (in-person)
March 1, 2024 (virtual)
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is excited to RECONNECT faculty and staff across the CSU and surrounding community colleges by hosting the 22nd Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning (SoTL) this winter!
To be held on two consecutive weekends with both in person and virtual opportunities to RECONNECT, the symposium is an opportunity to join your colleagues in learning and sharing with each other some of the exciting work we have done across the system and state in the past five years.
The in-person portion of the symposium (the first since 2019) will be held on the beautiful CSUSB main campus nestled against the San Bernardino Mountains on Friday, Feb. 23 & Saturday, Feb. 24. The virtual portion will be held the following week on Friday, March 1.
We encourage participants to submit proposals for presentations on the following themes by 11:59 pm on Monday, November 13, 2023:

Culturally responsive pedagogies
Student engagement and belonging
(Emerging) technologies as tools for learning
Inclusive learning assessment and outcomes
CSU-community colleges partnerships

Presentations can be submitted as posters, interactive sessions, symposium sessions, mini sessions, and virtual sessions (Friday, 3/1 only). Descriptions of each type of presentation are shown below.
All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 pm on Monday, November 13, 2023 through the EventsAir submission portal by clicking on the Apply Now button below. New submitters will need to create an account and then be ready with the proposal title, presentation type, theme, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract of up to 200 words, and presentation AV requirements. Also, please be ready to answer these additional questions:

How does your session address one or more of the symposium strands?
Who is your intended audience and why? (50 words maximum)
How will you engage your audience throughout the session?
If your first choice presentation type is oversubscribed, what would be your second choice and why? How might you change your presentation to fit this presentation type?
(Interactive Session only) Please outline the interactive facilitation plan for the 90 minute session
(Interactive Session only) What outcome/s do you intend for your participants and how will you know if they have been achieved?

Your submission can be saved as a draft and completed later.

Metacognitive approaches to prepare incoming students for STEM majors: Impacts & Lessons Learned from a Physical Sciences Bridge Program
2024-02-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings!
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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

Annual Winter BAAE Conversation Series
2024-02-06 12:30 - 13:30
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 environments (e.g., classroom, clinic/laboratory, meetings etc.), and action planning. Overall, the goal is to cultivate an environment and practice that celebrates identity and culture while still identifying and working together against inequitable systems.
The series will be on the following Tuesdays from 12:30 – 1:30 pm: February 6, 13, and 20. We will have light refreshments, but please feel free to bring your lunch!
The topics for each session are as follows. Please visit our website for more information.
1. Session 1: Exploring Identity, Privilege, & Culture
2. Session 2: Taking Anti-racist Action: Interrupting Microaggressions
3. Session 3: Taking Anti-racist Action: From Inclusive to Anti-racist pedagogy
IMPORTANT: Session 1 participation is required to attend either Session 2 or 3.

UCLA Leveraging Dynamic Social Norms to Motivate Conversations on Difficult Topics in the Classroom
2024-01-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
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Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings!
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Jan 30: Peter Fisher, PhD graduate, Social Psychology, UCLA
Leveraging Dynamic Social Norms to Motivate Conversations on Difficult Topics in the Classroom

The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in Introductory Psychology
2024-01-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings!
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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.

SABER West 2024
2024-01-12 08:00 - 2024-01-14 17:00 | UC Irvine
The eighth annual SABER West conference will be held face to face on January 13-14, 2024 with pre-conference workshops on Friday January 12, 2024.
The goals of the meeting are to:

Increase interactions among STEM educators and education researchers.

Foster collaborations between 2 year and 4 year institutions.

Provide professional development to conduct education research and implement evidence-based teaching practices.

Create an inclusive conference space that fosters the growth of attendees and presenters as STEM educators and education researchers.

Key Dates:

Registration is now open!

Early registration deadline: Nov 17

Regular registration deadline: Dec 22

Late registration deadline: Jan 8

Hotel block rate deadline: Dec 14 (or until block filled)

EdTalks@CEILS Learning Community Event: "The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in Introductory Psychology"
2024-01-11 14:00 - 14:50 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Melissa Paquette-Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology
“The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in Introductory Psychology”

End of Quarter CEILS Happy Hour
2023-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall South Courtyard
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!

Get Your Syllabus Ready for Winter Quarter!
2023-12-08 09:30 - 11:00 | Zoom
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 provided after RSVP)
View our CEILS guide on Designing an Inclusive Syllabus here.

UCLA Bruin Learn Training December Sessions
2023-12-01 08:00 - 2023-12-21 17:00 | Zoom
Register or join us for live training over Zoom. For specific questions and 1:1 guidance, drop in during daily office hours.
UCLA Bruin Learn Training Sessions

Session Details and Registration Links

Session

Audience

Day

Date

Time (PST)

Registration Link (includes event description)

Peer review and group member evaluation using FeedbackFruits
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Wednesday
12/6/2023
10:00 – 11:00 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn and MyUCLA
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Thursday
12/7/23
10:00 – 11:00 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
Faculty/TAs
Monday
12/11/23
12:00 – 1:30 pm
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Engage, Evaluate, and Elevate: Boost Classroom Interaction with iClicker Cloud Polling Tools
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Tuesday
12/12/23
10:00 – 11:30 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Tracking student progress and understanding results in Peerceptiv (peer review)
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Tuesday
12/12/23
1:00 – 2:00 pm
RegisterLinks to an external site.

End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn and MyUCLA
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Wednesday
12/13/23
12:00 – 1:00 pm
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
Faculty/TAs
Thursday
12/14/23
10:00 – 11:30 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn and MyUCLA
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Friday
12/15/23
10:00 – 11:00 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
Faculty/TAs
Monday
12/18/23
12:00 – 1:30 pm
RegisterLinks to an external site.

End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn and MyUCLA
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Tuesday
12/19/23
10:00 – 11:00 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Engage, Evaluate, and Elevate: Boost Classroom Interaction with iClicker Cloud Polling Tools
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Wednesday
12/20/23
10:00 – 11:30 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn and MyUCLA
Faculty/TAs/Staff
Thursday
12/21/23
12:00 – 1:00 pm
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
Faculty/TAs
Friday
12/22/23
10:00 – 11:30 am
RegisterLinks to an external site.

Other UCLA Training Events

UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching Events
UCLA Center of Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) Events
UCLA Disabilities & Computing Program Events & Resources
UCLA Online Teaching & Learning

ASCN presents "When things don't go as planned... what happens then?"
2023-11-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
ASCN has an upcoming webinar on November 28th, 4-5 pm ET/ 1-2 pm PT. The panel session will be on “When things don’t go as planned… what happens then?” Register here: https://bit.ly/TheoriesInPractice
When things don’t go as planned… what happens then?: Panel on change leadership and change theory
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
1-2 pm PT | 2-3 pm MT | 3-4 pm CT | 4-5 pm ET
Moderator: Tessa Andrews, University of Georgia
Panelists: Gita Bangera, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College, and Laura Muller, The Jackson Laboratory

Abstract
This panel discussion will re-engage with Gita Bangera, Laura Muller, and Melissa Eblen-Zayas about how their projects have pivoted and responded to challenges. In a collaboration between working groups 1 and 3, we will have a lively discussion about how leadership and theory are tools to make projects more effective and to increase flexibility in the face of challenges.

Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching | "Evidence Based Teaching & Learning"
2023-11-16 - 2023-11-19 | Miami University
Dear Lilly Conference Alums and Friends:
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 42nd Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching! We thank everyone for their patience. Join us in Oxford, Ohio, November 16-19, 2023, on the beautiful campus of Miami University.

Register Now

The Early Bird registration deadline ($50 off the registration fee) is October 15, 2023. Early registration is recommended due to space limitations at the Conference.
This year’s Original Lilly Conference features plenary sessions by Paul Hanstedt, Washington and Lee University; Teresa Nance, Villanova University; and John Warner, Eyler Warner and Associates. Watch for an email announcement of the completed Conference schedule, coming soon!
Contact the Original Lilly Conference office at (513) 529-9263or lill…@miamioh.edu if you have any questions.
If you cannot attend the Lilly Conference this year, please pass this message along to a colleague.
We hope to see you in November!
Regards,
The Lilly Conference staff

48th Annual POD Network Conference
2023-11-14 08:00 - 2023-11-17 17:00 | In-person and Online
We invite you to join us this year as we Envision the Future: Developing Equitable Opportunities for Success (Educational Developer success → Instructor success → Student success) at our institutions. The 48th annual POD Network conference envisions what the future of educational development might look like amid rapid changes in our lives, institutions, and societies. As educational developers, we are in a unique position to influence the success of faculty, students, institutions, and our own programs. By seeing our work through these multiple lenses, we seek a more holistic view of how educational development (see POD definition of Educational Development) can drive and facilitate the ongoing pursuit of equity in higher education.

The Conference Team has been working to increase access to our conference, and one of the most effective ways to do this is to again offer online and on-the-ground venues; this year in Pittsburgh. Both experiences will offer the same “session types”—workshops, roundtables, the keynote, etc.—and provide opportunities for deep engagement with teaching and learning while interacting with fellow POD members.

A new feature this year is a day of “hybrid” sessions that allow attendees in Pittsburgh and online to connect and learn together. The keynote speaker presentation will also be live streamed to virtual attendees. We are also offering a “dual venue” option: attend both Pittsburgh AND online conferences for a reduced rate. You will have the option to attend the online sessions as they are presented during the conference (November 14-17), or watch the session recordings at a later time. Sessions will be recorded upon the approval of the facilitators and made available for a period of time (TBD) after November 17.

Ed Talks @CEILS: Academic Experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color at UCLA
2023-10-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
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 it.
Manuel is a second year doctoral student in the psychology program studying stigma and health processes among sexual and gender minorities. Currently, he works at the UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center as a student researcher for the QTBIPOC Student Experiences Project, a qualitative needs assessment of the experiences of UCLA’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, aromantic, and intersex (LGBTQIA+) graduate and undergraduate Black, Indigenous, Students of Color (BIPOC).
For more information, please visit: https://lgbtq.ucla.edu/qtbipoc-experiences
