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This track is targeted to faculty members interested in using the Pathways to Diversity website in their courses or in developing content for the website through their classes. The workshop experience will be split into two shorter sessions. The first session will focus on how to use the Pathways to Diversity materials in class. There will be time to imagine ways to involve students with the work of discovery, curation, and accessibility of materials via the Pathways site or for a newly created project devoted to Diversity and Inclusion. This session will also provide scheduled and facilitated time for course redesign and/or new course development to incorporate the Pathways materials within classes. The second session will focus on how partnerships with library colleagues are developed and how this collaboration enriches the faculty and student experience.
Who should attend: Faculty from any discipline who are seeking to incorporate diversity and inclusion into their coursework, by uncovering the stories of historically underrepresented groups in their institutional archives.
What to expect: Benefiting from a practical and skills-based approach, attendees will learn . . .
(a) how to include students in the discovery process using primary sources and archives;
(b) how to train students to complete oral histories and forms and permissions needed for ethical and successful facilitation of these;
(c) how to teach students to create digital exhibits, including determining a topic, selecting artifacts, and creating metadata;
(d) how to use primary sources and archival work in course assignments and course development, which may contribute to a campus website or other digital project;
(e) and how to share content in a way that supports open access and public dialogue.
These learning goals will help attendees:
1. Develop their own readiness to contribute unique campus history artifacts to the Pathway to Diversity digital collection, therein expanding and adding richness to site’s corpus of historic materials for the benefit of researchers and the general public.
2. Develop their own courses using the archives.
More details:
• Workshop attendees will hear firsthand from instructors who helped create the Pathways site with students and librarians.
• Participants will be provided with step-by-step instructions in the form of a workshop “packet,” which will cover how to create a variety of archive-based assignments, from oral histories, to online exhibits, to digital collections.
• Workshop attendees will also get the chance to think on a big picture scale about useful campus partners and collaborators who can be an asset to this kind of work.
• Participants will get a chance to brainstorm on how to create a course with a significant archival component.
• Instructors will also offer insights on identifying key individuals to contact for oral histories.
• In an afternoon session, participants will work with librarians, archivists, and/or digital archivists who will assist with the packet completion and allow for a fully mapped project.
The ultimate goal is for participants to leave the workshop with a completed “packet,” useful digital content, and some new skills that will enable them to begin work immediately at their home campus or to grow work that has already begun there in the area of diversity and inclusion.