Morning Sessions

Mixed Identities & Racialized Bodies: Creating a Curriculum

Although mixed 'race' populations in the United States are growing, the spaces for dialogue are still too few, and the lack of multi-racial/multi-ethnic perspectives within academic classes and texts is not often acknowledged. Our response to this lack of representation for critical mixed race discourse on campus allowed us to design/create a space for mixed experiences to be heard and recognized as providing important contributions to the body of academic research and scholarship.

Growing Our Own Future Teachers of Color: A Collaborative Approach

Community Colleges serve a significant number of students of color in higher education and are an up-tapped resource for developing future teachers of color. This session will share best practices for developing and implementing a program to increase the pipe-line of future teachers of color in Washington State. Modeled after the Portland Teachers Program, Everett Community College developed and launched a collaborative model to recruit and prepare future teachers of color.

Safe Campus Allies: Challenging Violence in Our Communities

Violence affects learning and can lead to students acting out in defiant ways, daydreaming, missing classes, or looking bored and listless. The Safe Campus Program trains faculty and staff to address issues of violence and victimization. This workshop reviews the program’s rationale and how we created and implemented it. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to develop their own plan of action.

Stories That Change Lives

This course is about story telling – It will be fun and you will acquire the means to win hearts and minds. We will bring out the stories that linger inside you, create and share original stories that you will cherish for life.

You will leave with tools to create stories and to aid you in your professional growth.

Early Afternoon Sessions

The Voice behind the Policy: Developing a Bias Based Incident Protocol

What do you do when you have a bias based incident on campus? Clark College has established a protocol to ensure timely and effective responses to bias-based incidents within the facility of the institution. You will also hear from an individual student whose experience with bias based incident changed how Clark College addresses and values diversity.

Fostering Success for Underrepresented Students Pursuing Business

The University of Washington's Foster School of Business, Undergraduate Diversity Services (UDS) has a unique package of programs designed to groom students of color for the business world. UDS helps diverse students discover their love for business, compete for college and business major admission, and connect with key professional networks. This session will outline UDS's method of serving diverse students in business and preparing them for business internships and careers.

Freedom of Expression? Hate and Opposition in Visual Culture

Violence in visual culture dominates the 21st century mind; images are a matrix for malicious messages but can also be a tool for social justice. How are rising extremist groups using visual culture to intimidate communities of color on and off college campuses? What is the felt impact and how are other images pushing against this negative trend? Explore image-making strategies, discover what frightens and terrifies us in hate images, and witness how artists of color are countering hate.

Looking for the Perfect Beat

Music has the power to provoke critical thought in the classroom and promote social justice across campus. Lyrics can motivate reluctant learners and inspire student leaders. In this session, the facilitator will share some songs and teaching strategies that have proven successful when it comes to engaging and educating students both inside and outside of the classroom.

Late Afternoon Sessions

Organizational Diversity: Creating Institutional Change and Maintaining Commitment and Accountability

This presentation will focus on an approach to organizational diversity based on the foundation that diversity is a campus-wide interest AND responsibility that requires commitment AND accountability at ALL levels of the institution. A plan for sustainability is also key in the continued success of achieving and maintaining organizational diversity. The Diversity Assessment Framework will also be showcased as an effective tool to assess efforts in promoting and supporting students of color.

Program Accountability in Teacher Education: A Discussion of the Perceptions of University and State Government Leaders in the State of Washington

This session explores the perceptions of accountability in teacher education programs in Washington State across three stakeholder groups: university deans, legislators, and executive (Governor) staff members. Participants learn about key stakeholders' perspectives of the quality of teacher education programs, the impact of these conceptions on state policy, and what indicators stakeholders consider most important in the success of teacher education programs.

The Angel Experience: An Angel at Your Door

This workshop is a demonstration of how the Angel Network can be morphed from a class into a collaborative resource tool used to share across Washington State using college and community services, interactive self-help tools to engage students in online learning, provide staff with quick local and community resources to support faculty facilitate teaching.