Applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2009 Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum
at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, June 3-6, 2009.
www.uccs.edu/~knapsack
The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum welcomes faculty from across the nation to join us. Participants will create or revise courses and workshops to integrate issues of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality. The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the White Privilege Conference.
For the past decade The Knapsack Institute has been providing educators with a framework for teaching about the matrix of privilege and oppression from an intersectional perspective. The Institute welcomes all faculty! Alumni include faculty, teachers and educators at many levels, from a wide range of disciplines, including nursing, engineering, math, sociology, art, literature, etc.
The Knapsack Institute:
*Is a forum for sharing ideas and strategies
*Emphasizes pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity and inclusivity
*Provides professional growth and development
*Provides mentoring and leadership development
*Provides hands-on activities for the classroom
*Provides strategies for dealing with resistance in the classroom
*Provides suggestions for creating institutional change on your campus
*Provides resources and networking opportunities to support on-going change
For more information about The Knapsack Institute please visit:
www.uccs.edu/~knapsack
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