Now more than ever, it is crucial for faculty to examine our course content and classroom practices to create more inclusive learning environments. However, implementing culturally relevant, inclusive, and equity-minded pedagogies requires time and support. It is a process that involves examination of our knowledge base, revision of course materials and teaching practices, and courage to have tough conversations in our classrooms.

Benefits of a Collaborative Program

The Drexel Institute for Inclusive and Equitable Teaching is a collaborative program co-sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center and the Office for Institutional Equity and Inclusive Culture. This highly interactive, cohort-based program prepares faculty to begin or continue this lifelong work, as well as take immediate action in their teaching. Weekly workshops, short readings, and activities provide strategies for:

• building an inclusive syllabus
• teaching transparently
• creating inclusive, equitable activities and assessments
• developing skills to embrace and discuss difference in the classroom

Throughout this Institute, you will apply strategies and concepts to a course and syllabus of your choice. You will leave this program with revised course materials and the confidence to infuse your classroom with equity-minded teaching practices.

After participation in this program faculty will have increased confidence in their ability to:

• explain what inclusive teaching is and how it helps all students succeed
• reflect on implicit bias and ways to mitigate bias in the classroom
• create culturally inclusive, accessible assignments and activities that allow all students to engage with course material
• design inclusive and equitable assessments that appropriately measure course learning goals; and
• use a variety of strategies to discuss highly-charged topics or address hot moments in class.

Winter 2024 Participants

Winter 2023 Participants

Winter 2022 Participants

Summer 2021 Departmental Cohort

Winter 2021 Participants