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CSUSB professor’s article published in Metropolitan UniversitiesMetropolitan Universities
Kimberly Costino, director of Semester Conversion and professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, had her paper, “Equity-Minded Faculty Development: An Intersectional Identity-Conscious Community of Practice Model for Faculty Learning,” published in Metropolitan Universities.
According to the abstract:
“Equity-minded institutional transformation requires robust faculty learning. Research has shown that the single most important factor in student success is faculty interaction. Positive, supportive, and empowering faculty interaction is particularly important to the success of female students, poor and working class students, and students of color, but most faculty are not prepared to offer the kind of support that has been shown to be most effective for marginalized students. If institutions are serious about equity and about transformation, then they are obligated to provide professional development that will support the learning necessary for faculty to fulfill these important roles and to support faculty financially or by buying their time to participate in it. An effective way to do this is to align such professional development with the urgent needs of the campus and their related campus-wide initiatives. This article describes a community of practice model of identity-conscious professional development that engages faculty in a scholarly approach to the science of learning and evidence-based teaching and curriculum development while at the same time insistently and consistently incorporating critical reflection on and exploration of how systems of power and oppression impact learning. We believe this faculty engagement is key to transforming our institution into a more equitable and inclusive learning environment for students and faculty alike.”
Read the complete paper at “Equity-Minded Faculty Development: An Intersectional Identity-Conscious Community of Practice Model for Faculty Learning.”
CSUSB criminal justice professor featured speaker at Cal Poly Pomona symposiumThe Poly PostApril 16, 2018
Janine Kremling, an associate professor of criminal justice at CSUSB, delivered the plenary address at annual PolyTeach and the 20th CSU Symposium on University Teaching recently. She is co-editor of the book “Why Students Resist Learning” which correlates with her presentation entitled “Overcoming Resistance to Productive Disruption – What We’re Learning from Our Students.”
The plenary address followed this year’s PolyTeach’s theme “Productive Disruption” in which Kremling emphasized sympathy for both the student’s and the faculty’s obstacles within the principles of education.
“That’s why they are in college they want to be successful,” said Kremling to the audience.
Read the complete article at “Symposium teaches productive disruption.”
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