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October 10-11

Join
 us for the In It series of events

, coordinated by the Inclusion Liaisons, is a suite of diversity and inclusion programs designed to raise our cultural fluency and strengthen our community. Check out the range of events being offered including: interfaith conversations, an interactive board game on structural inequality in the U.S., a workshop on the trans-experience, a visual reading of Kara Walker’s The Emancipation Approximation, mediation and prayer services, and film screenings.

 

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Pedagogy Workshops with Dr. Barbara Jacoby
October 22 and 23
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, 2nd Floor

Dr. Barbara Jacoby

Dr. Barbara Jacoby is a Senior Consultant at the Do Good institute (School of Public Policy, University of Maryland) and a Higher Education Consultant in private practice. Her areas of focus include service-learning, civic and community engagement, curriculum development, high-impact educational practices, and experiential learning inside and outside the classroom.

She will offer a workshop specially designed to assist faculty in developing courses for our new Bridge Experience requirement, especially the practice/application component.

The workshop will be offered at two separate times:

  • Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, Oct. 23, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Lunch Pedagogy Workshop with Dr. Lorre Wolf
October 25
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Payne Room

Dr. Lorre Wolfe

Dr. Lorre Wolf, Director of Disability and Access Services at Boston University, will be leading a lunch pedagogy workshop on October 25 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. in the Payne Room. Along with Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown, she developed a model of service delivery for college students entitled “Strategic Education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” The pedagogy workshop will discuss autism and some symptoms; strategies for classroom management; reasonable accommodations and access versus eligibility.

Featured Faculty/Staff

Winston Grady-Willis

Winston Grady-Willis

Winston Grady-Willis returns to Skidmore College as professor and founding director of Black Studies. (From 2008 to 2011 he was associate professor of American Studies and a member of a three-person diversity and inclusion leadership team.) Most recently, he was inaugural director of the School of Gender, Race and Nations at Portland State University and professor and chair of Africana Studies at MSU Denver. While at Syracuse University, where he taught in the Department of African American Studies, he received the Meredith Teaching Recognition Award. His first book, Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977, seeks to provide a gendered examination of the transition between nonviolent direct action and Black Power during the contemporary Black Freedom movement. He is also lead author of the electronic textbook The Struggle Continues: Historical and Contemporary Issues in Africana Studies. He is enjoying being back in the classroom and teaching Introduction to Black Studies this semester.

Student Voices

"Effective teaching is the encouragement of students in a safe space. It is being aware of visual, spatial, and auditory differences as well as individualistic styles of learning. It is also enabling students to crave a desire to grow and be challenged by a course’s material. When students feel both comfortable and passionate in an environment with a figure who does not abuse their power in the space, effective teaching is at play."

Featured CLTL Student

Amal Omer

Amal Omer

Amal is a junior from South Orange, NJ. She is a double major in Gender Studies and Political Science with a minor in Intergroup Relations. She works as a tour guide on campus and as a Barista at Burgess Café. Amal is a peer health educator and the vice president of Skidmore’s Restorative Justice Club.

This semester she will be the assistant co-host of Pass the Mic. Amal’s passions include studying prison abolition, post-colonial feminist movements, and restorative dialoguing practices.

 

Next semester she will be abroad in Cape Town, South Africa studying Apartheid through a Multiculturalism and Human Rights Program

Other Events
  • Scholarly and Creative Endeavors (SCE) Groups are ongoing Mondays-Thursdays during the Fall.
  • Science Faculty Discussion Group meets on 10/17, 10/31, 11/7, 11/21, 12/5 at 4:15 p.m. in the Lucy Scribner Library, the Weller Room (212).
News and Resources

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