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Summer Teaching Institute

Summer 2024 Opportunities

 

Classroom Equity Faculty Summer Teaching Institute 

2024 Institute Overview 

  • Monday - Thursday, June 10-13th
  • 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Each Day) at the Faculty Center, 2400 Kellogg  
  • Participating faculty will be compensated $600 training stipend (salary) 
  • Open to faculty of all ranks and colleges 
  • Applications are due by May 10, 2024 

Creating a truly equitable classroom requires a deep understanding of how students from diverse backgrounds experience communication and learning through their identities and cultures.

Through a combination of interactive workshops, critical reflection exercises, and performance-based feedback activities, participants are invited through a four-day faculty institute to examine intersectional power dynamics, hidden biases within their own identities, and cultural communication research. This institute centers advocacy as an organizing structure, method, and pedagogical practice. Participants will specifically practice speaking up, listening, reflexivity, dialogue, critical literacy, and alliance-building as it relates to both classroom management and general professional practice.

By engaging in critical discussions about power dynamics and representation in educational settings, we will work to create inclusive learning environments that value diverse voices and perspectives. The Classroom Equity Summer Teaching Institute is for faculty who are looking to improve their courses at the personal pedagogical level and the structural-institutional level. This includes:

  • Deconstructing Dominant Narratives: Challenging assumptions about ideal student communication styles and learning behaviors.
  • Centering Student Voices: Exploring performance-based methods that invite reimaginings of past or future possibilities in the classroom.
  • Designing Culturally Responsive Activities: Developing engaging classroom experiences that acknowledge and celebrate student cultural backgrounds and histories.

Who should apply? 
  • Faculty of all ranks from all colleges are encouraged to apply. We strongly believe that classroom equity practices can be added to any course no matter the field or discipline. We will assist faculty in developing ideas and identifying areas of your syllabi and/or pedagogy to revise. There will be some light movement-based activities at key moments of the summer institute.

For questions about the institute or application, please contact Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice at rgutierrez@csusm.edu

What is the commitment?  
  • Faculty should plan to attend all four days from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM from June 3rd through 6th. 
  • Participants will spend an additional few hours doing reading in preparation for each session and assessing techniques learned in the institute through reflective journaling.
  • Faculty will attend a follow up meeting during the AY 24-25 to discuss and troubleshoot any challenges with their new classroom equity redesigned courses. The meeting day and time will be determined by the participants’ Fall availability later in August.
  • This is an in-person only experience. The institute will take place at the Faculty Center, KEL 2413.How will faculty be selected?
  • Stated interest in, commitment to, and/or genuine willingness to engage in inclusion, diversity, equity, and access issues in an upcoming class. 
  • Diverse representation within the institute (ideally, we would like to include faculty of different ranks, disciplines, and colleges). 
  • Space will be limited to 10 participants
  • Priority for faculty working on course revisions for a class that is part of the campus’s Equity Priority #5 work.

What is the compensation? 
  • Faculty who complete all four days of the Classroom Equity Faculty Summer Teaching Institute will receive $600 training stipend (salary). 

Only Unit 3 faculty members who will be on contract with an existing Unit 3 appointment during the entire time frame of the training or professional development opportunity are eligible to be considered for a stipend. Faculty may not request or accept professional development and/or training under this program unless they are on active pay status as a faculty bargaining unit employee. Summer stipends can only be offered to faculty who will be employed the preceding spring and subsequent fall semesters as Unit 3.

Faculty are limited to a maximum of $10,000 in stipends for faculty training and professional development per fiscal year. Faculty cannot accept an offer for a stipend that will cause them to exceed this $10,000 annual limit.

All faculty members accepting a stipend must fulfill all of the stated terms and expectations that constitute completion of the training or development activity to receive the stipend.

Application  

Service Learning Faculty Institute

2024 Institute Overview

  • Monday - Thursday, June 3-6th
  • 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Each Day) at the Faculty Center, 2400 Kellogg 
  • Participating faculty will receive $600 training stipend and an additional $500 training stipend if they teach their new Service Learning course in the following academic year and attend follow-up sessions. 
  • Open to faculty of all ranks and colleges

Applications are due by May 20, 2024

Service Learning is a high-impact teaching practice that incorporates community work into the curriculum, giving students transformative, real-world learning experiences that enhance their academic learning while providing a tangible benefit to the community. Faculty can also carry out community-engaged research as part of the service learning courses they teach. 

Through presentations and hands-on activities, our 4-day Faculty Institute will help new faculty incorporate service learning into their courses and existing service learning faculty to improve their practice. We will brainstorm ideas, build syllabi, and identify learning outcomes, create assignments, and explore how you can conduct community-engaged research as part of your service learning courses. We will invite speakers, including community partners, to discuss best practices and tips for success.

The Service Learning Summer Teaching Institute will focus on both the pedagogy and the practice of service learning and reflection. This includes:

  • Creating learning objectives that link service to course outcomes
  • Identifying Community Partners that fit the needs of your course and engage students
  • Designing reflection activities tied with the learning objectives and the service
  • Examining rubrics to assess student learning
  • Gathering data that you can analyze and present findings at conferences and publish in academic journals
Who should apply?
  • Faculty of all ranks from all colleges are encouraged to apply. Service learning can be added to any course. We will assist faculty in developing ideas and identifying community partners. Previous experience with Service Learning is not required (but also welcome!).
  • Service learning faculty who are interested in improving their courses.

For questions about the event or application, please contact Sinem Siyahhan, Service Learning Faculty Director at ssiyahhan@csusm.edu

What is the commitment? 
  • Faculty should plan to attend the full time from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM from June 3rd to 6th.
How will faculty be selected?
  • Diverse representation across disciplines and colleges and faculty ranks.
  • Faculty who never taught service learning course before will have priority.
  • Space will be limited to 10 participants
What is the compensation?
  • Faculty who complete the Service Learning Summer Teaching Institute will be awarded $600 training stipend for attending and participating at all 4 days of the meetings and an additional $500 training stipend if they can teach their new Service Learning course in the following academic year and attend the guided follow-up in AY 2024-25. 

Only Unit 3 faculty members who will be on contract with an existing Unit 3 appointment during the entire time frame of the training or professional development opportunity are eligible to be considered for a stipend. Faculty may not request or accept professional development and/or training under this program unless they are on active pay status as a faculty bargaining unit employee. Summer stipends can only be offered to faculty who will be employed the preceding spring and subsequent fall semesters as Unit 3.

Faculty are limited to a maximum of $10,000 in stipends for faculty training and professional development per fiscal year. Faculty cannot accept an offer for a stipend that will cause them to exceed this $10,000 annual limit.

All faculty members accepting a stipend must fulfill all of the stated terms and expectations that constitute completion of the training or development activity to receive the stipend.

Application 

Applications are due: May 20, 2024 |  Notification of selection: May 23, 2024