Graduate Student Council Session: Training Next-Generation Teachers to Confront Institutional Racism in Schools

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Students' mental, social and emotional well-being are some of the key factors that shape students' college experience. Understanding students needs and concerns facilitates the development of a healthy advisor/advisee partnership. In this session, the facilitator will share strategies used to support mentorship when working with students of color, and students who come from low-income communities. Facilitators will rely on a thematic analysis that shares the experiences of doctoral students who experience racism at their university while noticing different incidences of White privilege. Participants will walk away with strategies to help faculty, student affair practitioners and college advisors with tools to help them better support marginalized students by being racial consciousness and anti-racist.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsor

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Dre Abeita, University of New Mexico

Panelists

• Dre Abeita, University of New Mexico

• Jennifer Jackson, Pennsylvania State University

• Jonathan D McCausland, Pennsylvania State University

• Tiffany M Nyachae, Pennsylvania State University