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What is featured?

Monday, 18 Jan 2021

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Birthday Celebration

Jan 18, 2021

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Online

free

Community Diversity Lectures

An Ames community tradition, this year livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. Wayne Clinton, longtime Ames resident, retired teacher and coach, will serve as the keynote speaker. The Ames Human Relations Commission will present its annual Humanitarian Award.

Thursday, 21 Jan 2021

Friday, 22 Jan 2021

Webinar, Creating and sustaining equitable learning environments through shared values clarification

Jan 22, 2021

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

online only - via ASPIRE: The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Diversity Training, development

Teaching is fundamentally a relational process in which our personal and pedagogical values translate into behaviors that drive relationships with and amongst students. Values clarification engages us in deep critical reflection to identify what we value in a learning environment, the personal significance of these values, and their impact on our pedagogical choices and ways of being with our students.

Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021

Latina Studies Matter: Programming in Times of Crisis

Jan 27, 2021

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

See WebEx Link

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures

U.S. Latino/a Studies Faculty Lecture Series, Spring 2021[b/]

Friday, 29 Jan 2021

Web talk, Mitigating pre-college socioeconomic barriers to STEM education

Jan 29, 2021

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

online only - via Zoom from Yale University

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Diversity Training, development

Inclusive education has always been about attending to more than content delivery, and incorporates how pedagogies address socio-psychological contingencies students may need to process. Brought on by persistent general social inequity, these contingencies continue to present themselves as barriers in STEM classrooms.