The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is hosting “Designing Learning Spaces to Promote Success Among CU Denver’s First-Generation Low-Income Students of Color,” a series of three community of practice meetings among CU Denver faculty members in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Facilitated by Dr. Marty Otañez, Faculty Fellow for the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL), the community of practice highlights the dissertation research of Dr. Geneva Sarcedo, SEHD academic advisor and PhD alumna (2020), with the intent to share experiences in and out of the classroom that contributes to the achievement of CU Denver first-generation low-income students of color.
A recommended reading for the community of practice participants is Dr. Sarcedo’s piece “We stay fly: Composite counterstories of academic success and graduation among first-generation low-income college students of Color” (2020).
Topics may cover ways faculty members strengthen relationships with first-generation low-income students of color, apply culturally responsive and liberatory pedagogies that recognize our privileges as faculty members, integrate service-learning projects in course assignments, approach in-class peer engagement opportunities in course activities, and offer individual and group academic support. Ultimately, this community of practice may help produce champions for CU Denver to become a Hispanic Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution.
Please visit Community of Practice: Designing Learning Spaces to Promote Success Among CU Denver First-Generation Low-Income Students of Color to learn more and/or register for the community of practice.