Finding Ourselves in Community: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Undergraduate Education

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Fostering Racial Justice Across Educational Settings: Considerations for School Community, Climate, and Culture (Table 17)

Abstract

By helping students gain a fundamental understanding of how identities are socially constructed, how identities shape perspectives and attitudes, and how these impact relationships with others in the communities they inhabit, Finding Ourselves in Community (FSC) makes an important and necessary intervention in undergraduate student learning. Finding Ourselves in Community is a response to grassroots, student-led movements pushing for a serious examination of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) across the entire campus. The FSC can be used as a model for colleges and universities who wish to embed principles of DEI into university curricula.

Authors

• Brianna Edwards, Texas Christian University

• Leslie Uchenna Ekpe, East Texas A&M University

• David E. Allen, Texas Christian University