Inclusive Excellence

Try the IE Self-Developer This tool can help instructors and departments plan strategies for enacting Inclusive Excellence. It also provides CATL IE with information to guide planning. Or, go directly to the IE Ideas page or the Reading and Video page.

Contact

Deb Hoskins
Inclusive Excellence Coordinator and
Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

423 Carl Wimberly Hall
608.785.8734

Overview

"The central premise of Inclusive Excellence holds that UW System colleges and universities . . . intentionally integrate their diversity efforts into the core aspects of their institutions—such as their academic priorities, leadership, quality improvement initiatives, decision-making, day-to-day operations, and organizational cultures—in order to maximize their success." See the UW System"s overview here: INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE FAQ SHORT VERSION (opens in .pdf)

IE in Teaching and Learning includes four components (links go to additional pages on this site for each component):

"Diversity" includes: individual differences (e.g., personality, learning styles, and life experiences) and group/social differences (e.g., race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, country of origin, and ability as well as cultural, political, religious, or other affiliations) that can be engaged in the service of learning.

Inclusive Excellence challenges both students and faculty to think in new ways.

Goals

to support current diversity efforts related to teaching and learning
to infuse thinking about diversity into teaching and learning
to help faculty stay on the cutting edges of their disciplines
to close achievement gaps in student learning
to create inclusive, challenging, innovative learning environments that help all students to excel
to grant all students equitable ways to demonstrate learning
to improve critical thinking and problem-solving in all students

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Services

Workshops:

CATL Colloquium/Workshops. See the CATL Calendar. The IE Coordinator participates in many CATL events as well as providing IE-focused workshops. IE events for Fall 2009 include two workshops on Universal Design of graded assignments and a session exploring issues of standard English for college students whose first language is not English.
The IE Coordinator will also provide custom-designed workshops for departments or colleges, including workshops in collaboration with other elements of CATL and/or colleagues and offices in Student Affairs.

Seminars and websites:

Teaching For Diversity, a seminar for instructors interested in the role diversity plays in improving the learning of all students and in in teaching all students well, as well as those who are the face of diversity themselves.
TFD's website includes resources for faculty who represent diversity themselves, help with technology, and other resources.
This website provides resources for addressing the four components on IE in teaching and learning noted above.

Research: the IE Coordinator can provide literature reviews and other research for individuals and departments related to faculty development and Inclusive Excellence.
Possibilities might include:

Provide background research in secondary literature to support current diversity efforts
Design a departmental faculty development program that incorporates Inclusive Excellence (IE) in teaching and learning
Find student participants for sessions, surveys, focus groups, or collaborative teaching and learning projects
Conduct focus groups

Consultation: both group and individual, the IE Coordinator can help you with specific teaching and learning agendas.
Possibilities might include:

Troubleshoot a particular pedagogical or course content issue, or an Equity Scorecard or assessment finding
Develop a new teaching strategy that engages all students
Design or redesign a course or a unit to experiment with innovative pedagogies aimed at reducing achievement gaps or different learning styles
Design assessments that might identify group-based inequities in learning
Develop grant proposals on teaching and learning or faculty development