Sandra Kingan - Brooklyn College
Viviana Rivera-Burgos - Baruch College
Pabvitraa Ramcharan - Baruch College
There is growing consensus across CUNY to address antiracism. However, faculty and students are grappling with how to put this into practice. In this session, two strategies to take action towards a more equitable and inclusive CUNY classroom are examined across two liberal arts disciplines: mathematics and political science. In the first segment, Prof Sandra Kingan (Department of Mathematics, Brooklyn College) will lead an interactive workshop to demonstrate how small changes in teaching strategies can cultivate an environment of anti-racism, respect and inclusion in the mathematics classroom. Each strategy by itself seems small, but together they have transformative capability, especially when implemented by multiple faculty within a department. The second segment will bring together faculty and students from the Department of Political Science at Baruch College engaged in deep content analysis of all course syllabi collected during the Fall 2020 semester. This first-stage research project aims at understanding how the department is currently collectively addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in our courses, and its results will help identify next steps towards building antiracist structures and practices into our curriculum, pedagogy, and department culture.