Tuesday, September 15, 2020
4-5:15 pm
The School of Public Health's Office of Diversity and Inclusion & Office of Academic Affairs invites School faculty engaged in teaching, graduate program directors, director of undergraduate studies, curriculum committee members, and chairs/vice chairs to this training workshop to support faculty to further enhance and transform their teaching of public health to more rigorously address race, racism, and racial bias. This workshop will be led by Associate Dean Caroline Kuo, with content vetted by Dr. Benjamin Reese. Dr. Reese is President of BENREESE, LLC. , a global diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm. He is the former Vice President of the Office for Institutional Equity at Duke University and Duke University Health System, Duke University's Chief Diversity Officer, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. He is also adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Community Medicine and Family Health, and Psychology and Neuroscience.
The workshop will cover the following content:
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How to set norms and create a common foundation for engaging in learning around these topics effectively in the classroom.
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Strategies for facilitating interactions between faculty and students and between students to support a space for effective learning.
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Discussing how to re-work competencies and content with attention to race, racism, and racial bias in public health.
We will record the initial portion of the workshop. The last portion of the workshop will divide faculty by department into breakout rooms (not recorded), where faculty can engage in peer-to-peer sharing on strategies that have worked well for them, and/or to discuss challenges. If you are able to attend, please complete the registration form below. A Zoom webinar link will be emailed to you in advance of the meeting.
Following this workshop, starting September 21st, faculty will have an opportunity to work through specific course content in detailed 1-on-1 or small group coaching sessions with Dr. Reese to troubleshoot any challenges they encounter as they implement new changes in their course, or to have specific questions answered as they begin to re-work their course. There is no structure to these informal sessions - faculty should use these sessions with Dr. Reese in whatever way is most useful to you. If you already know you want a 1-on-1 or small group session (15 slots available on a first come first serve basis, please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CFeWFrYfn5KsPOisEzWBW8ZPxq_JBxCHLR1fnOxt-w/edit?usp=sharing)
