“Important work in the midst of everything else”: Developing and facilitating college-wide anti-racist learning communities during a global pandemic

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop is intended to allow participants time to learn from an interdisciplinary group of faculty who facilitated and/or were members of anti-racist learning communities throughout the pandemic in a College of Education and Human Development. The workshop is designed to support participants in creating and facilitating their own learning communities to help dismantle systemic oppression. We will provide participants with information related to how we developed and facilitated these learning communities focused on anti-racist work in higher education. We will discuss obstacles we faced and strategies for overcoming barriers through the lessons we learned. Participants will engage in discussions and collaborative work to start developing their own ideas for how they can implement similar learning communities given their own contexts.

Sub Unit

• J – Postsecondary Education

Presenters

• Starr E. Keyes, Bowling Green State University

• Kate Brodeur, BGSU

• Kristina Nell LaVenia, Bowling Green State University

• Elizabeth Holman, Bowling Green State University

• Sherri Horner, Bowling Green State University

• Brooks Vostal, Bowling Green State University

• Amy L. Morgan, Bowling Green State University