diversity
Reaching At-Risk Students
Submitted by Teaching Academy on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 17:20Tags:
Holly Hassel and Joanne Giordano of UW-Marathon County presented an OPID funded conference this past June called Reaching At-Risk Students. Their website offers information on the conference and will also serve as an ongoing resource for faculty and staff across the state of Wisconsin who work with students who are at-risk of not succeeding academically. Please check it out at http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/rars/index.htm
The Reaching At-Risk Students Workshop was held on Friday, June 5, 2009 at UW-Marathon County in Wausau, WI. It's purpose was to create a venue for system-wide conversations about working with the broad spectrum of students entering higher education who are at risk for probation, suspension, or simply dropping out.
Teaching Undergraduates with Diverse Backgrounds Using Cooperative Learning: Applying Lessons Learned in Extension
Submitted by Teaching Academy on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 10:27Tags:
The course:
AnSci 250 (Horse Science and Management) is a three credit undergraduate course offered only in the spring semester. Lectures are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with a lab on Thursday afternoons. Approximately 25 to 30 students are typically enrolled. In essence, there are no prerequisites. In addition, there are no additional horse courses offered at UW-Madison except for a new course, AnSci 475 (Equine Reproductive Management).
Students have diverse backgrounds such as the following:
Do Faculty Interactions Among Diverse Students Enhance Intellectual Development?
Submitted by Teaching Academy on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 12:46Tags:
The posting below, from the Tomorrow's Professor Listserve, looks at strategies for increasing student learning in diverse classroom settings. It is from Chapter 4, Accounting for Diversity Within the Teaching and Learning Paradigm, in the book: Driving Change through Diversity and Globalization, Transformative Leadership in the Academy, by James A.
Setting Expectations for Respecting Difference in the Classroom
Submitted by Tracy Schroepfer on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 09:12Tags:
A suggestion for placing guidelines in the syllabus that address the need to honor difference in the classroom.
In order to create a classroom environment in which students feel safe to share in honest and respectful ways, I feel it is important to address directly expectations on the first day of class. I include the following paragraph in my syllabus and then take a little time in class on the first day so we can talk about what it means for all of us.
What Color Is an A?
Submitted by Jeff Henriques on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 13:07Tags:
This is from The Chronicle of Higher Education - Students, from the issue dated June 1, 2007. The article is lengthy but worth reading, and it addresses the nationwide problem of the performance gap between targeted and nontargeted minority students of comparable ability levels and discusses strategies that some schools are implementing to reduce this problem.
What Color Is an A?
Colleges take on a persistent but rarely discussed issue: the poor grades earned by many minority students
