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Resources
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UW Web Resources
Diversity at the UW
Contains links to UW programs, events and additional resources related to diversity.
Teaching at the UW
Main resource page for information about teaching and learning at the University of Washington.
Transforming a Course
A one-page bulletin (in pdf format) with guidelines for course transformation.
Featured Courses
Inclusive Teaching
Web resource of the UW Center for Instructional Development and Research providing examples, insights from faculty, and stories from students to help instructors accomplish their goal of teaching more inclusively.
Guidelines for Department Curriculum Change
This document provides academic departments with guidelines for ensuring that their curriculum helps prepare their students to live and work in a diverse society.
The Center for Multicultural Education
The Center for Multicultural Education offers regular book talks on diversity in education, and has an extensive resource list available on their website.
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology
DO-IT hosts a “Faculty Room” on their website, with information on how to create classroom environments and academic activities that meet the needs of disabled students.
The Disability Studies Program
Offers resources on how to include theoretical frameworks from disability studies into your teaching.
The Q Center
Offers an array of events and services related to sexuality, gender identity, and other concerns. Find annotated bibliographies and other resources on their site or visit the office at Schmitz Hall 450.
External Web Resources
Advice on Effective Curriculum Transformation
Overview of principles of curriculum change, based on the work of campuses in the Association of American Colleges and University's (AAC&U) American Commitments project.
University of Maryland Curriculum Transformation Project
In-depth resource on helping develop inclusive curricula and pedagogies, and includes links to sample syllabi.
Creating Inclusive College Classrooms
This University of Michigan resource offers a detailed discussion of inclusive teaching.
Writing for Change: Raising Awareness of Difference, Power and Discrimination
A valuable resource on the Tolerance.org website, developed by professors at Oregon State University.
Books and Articles
Border, L. & Chism, N. V. N., (Eds.). (1992). Teaching for diversity. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 49. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.
Chesler, M. (1997). Perceptions of faculty behavior by students of color. CRLT Occassional Paper, 7. (downloadable as pdf)
Eyre, L. (1993). “Compulsory Heterosexuality in a University Classroom.” Canadian Journal of Education18(3): 273-284.
Howell, A. and Tuitt, F, eds. (2003). Race and higher education: Rethinking pedagogy in diverse college classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.
Lutzker, M. (1995). Multiculturalism in the college curriculum: A handbook of strategies and resources for faculty. The Greenwood Educators’ Reference Collection. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
Ouellett, M. L. (2005). Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Department & Institutional Change in Higher Education. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Disciplines
Jacobs, D. “An Alternative Approach to General Chemistry: Addressing the needs of at-risk students with cooperative learning strategies.” Web resource, available at http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/collections/castl_he/djacobs/index2.htm
Felder, R.M. (1996). “Teaching to all types: Examples from engineering education.” Matters of Style, ASEE Prism, 6(4), 18-23.
Fencl, H., and Scheel, K. (2005). “Engaging Students: An Examination of the Effects of Teaching Strategies on Self-Efficacy and Course Climate in a Nonmajors Physics Course.” Journal of College Science Teaching; September, 35 (1).
Jones, L. S. “Science in the Interest of Social Justice: Untangling the Biological Realities of Race and Gender.” In Teaching Inclusively, ed. M. Oullett. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Martin, B. (1997). “Mathematics and Social Interests.” In Ethnomathematics. eds. A. Powell and M. Frankenstein. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Pp. 55-71.
Nelson, C. E. “Student Diversity requires different approaches to college teaching, even in math and science.” The American Behavioral Scientist. Thousand Oaks: Nov/Dec 1996. Vol. 40, Iss. 2.
Faculty Diversity
Adams, Kate, and Kim Emery. (1994). “Classroom Coming Out Stories: Practical Strategies for Productive Self-Disclosure.” Tilting the Tower. ed. Linda Garber. New York: Routledge, 1994. 25-34.
Kardia, D. B., and Wright, M. C., Instructor Identity: The Impact of Gender and Race on Faculty Experiences with Teaching. CRLT Occassional Papers, 19. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan. (Download the article as pdf)
Matsikidze, I. P. (1991). “The Marginalized Teacher in a Writing Classroom.” In R. D. Abbott, J. D. Nyquist, D. H. Wulff, and J. Sprague (eds.), Preparing the Professoriate of Tomorrow to Teach: Selected Readings in TA Training. (pp. 100-104). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Stanley, C. A., ed. (2006). Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.
Statham, A., Richardson, L., and Cook, J. A. (1991). Gender and University Teaching: A Negotiated Difference. New York: State University of New York Press.
