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Culturally Relevant and Responsive Tools for Cultivating and Assessing Optimally Inclusive Campus Environments Keynote Project Inclusion Keene State College Samuel D. Museus, Ph.D. The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) Project Indiana University, Bloomington Thank you. CECE project. Please tweet. Appreciate opportunity to engage with students. Strategic planning committee. Share the story of Stephen. Low-income refugee community. Slept through, hanging by thread. Close to dropout or prison. #ceceproject
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The CECE Project Educational Equity Systemic Transformation
Common Vision Inquiry and Evidence I like to begin with stories: Teresa and diversity and success committee. Director of the CECE Project. Is founded on 4 pillars. We take a different approach to addressing the diversity and inclusion problems in higher education. In the remainder of the presentation, I will explain how.
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Environmental Challenges
Invisibility and Silence Isolation and Marginalization Stereotypes Deficit-Thinking Tokenism Irrelevance We also hear about microaggressions. Over a decade ago, in graduate school, I immersed myself in the literature. Much of the literature on diversity revolved around these problems. As you can see, this conversation was very negative.
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Focus on Student Behavior
Integration Involvement Engagement The success literature revolved around concepts like these. Tinto. Astin. Kuh. How do these concepts acknowledge the realtity that students come from different communities and bring with them to college different identities? Something had to be done about this disconnect because the weight of evidence suggested that race and culture do play a role in student eperiences and outcomes.
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College Student Engagement
Applying facts, theories, or methods Analyzing an idea, experience, or line of reasoning Combining ideas from different courses Evaluating a point of view, decision, or information source Forming a new idea or understanding from various pieces of information Identifying key information from reading assignments Summarizing what you learned in class or from course materials The current common and dominant way of thinking about efforts to maximize success. When I see these kinds of concepts, I have a lot of questions like…
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College Student Engagement
What makes that engagement experience a good one or a bad one for a [insert identity] person? What makes it an experience that nurtures a human being’s passion to learn and succeed? Or one that extinguishes it? What makes people want to invest that extra hour or day in the engagement experience? What is it about an engagement experience that makes a [insert identity] feel like they matter or they belong here?
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9 Characteristics of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments
Cultural Relevance: Five indicators focus on the ways that campus environments are relevant to the cultural backgrounds and communities of diverse college students: Cultural Familiarity Culturally Relevant Knowledge Cultural Community Service Meaningful Cross-Cultural Engagement Culturally Validating Environments Cultural Responsiveness: The remaining four indicators focus on the ways in which campus environments respond to the cultural norms and needs of diverse students: Collectivist Cultural Orientations Humanized Educational Experiences Proactive Philosophies Availability of Holistic Support Several years ago, experience at event in NH.
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Cultural Familiarity Spaces to connect with individuals and groups who share and understand their cultural backgrounds and experiences. A significant body of literature shows that this matters.
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Culturally Relevant Knowledge
Opportunities to learn and exchange knowledge about their cultural backgrounds and communities. Story of Theresa, from pre-med to ethnic studies.
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Cultural Community Service
Service opportunities for students to give back and positively transform their cultural communities. Many students are here to develop the tools to give back.
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Meaningful Cross-Cultural Engagement
Opportunities to engage in interactions that focus on solving meaningful social problems with peers of different cultural backgrounds. Affirmative action cases and resulting research.
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Cultural Validation Extent to which campus environments value and validate the cultural backgrounds and identities of students. Who doesn’t want to feel valued?
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9 Characteristics of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments
Cultural Relevance: Five indicators focus on the ways that campus environments are relevant to the cultural backgrounds and communities of diverse college students: Cultural Familiarity Culturally Relevant Knowledge Cultural Community Service Meaningful Cross-Cultural Engagement Culturally Validating Environments Cultural Responsiveness: The remaining four indicators focus on the ways in which campus environments respond to the cultural norms and needs of diverse students: Collectivist Cultural Orientations Humanized Educational Experiences Proactive Philosophies Availability of Holistic Support
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Collectivist Cultural Orientations
Degree to which campuses have cultures that foster a sense of community and collaboration, rather than individualistic competition. Uri Treisman example.
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Proactive Philosophies
Extent to which faculty and staff go beyond making information and support available to making proactive efforts to bring information and support to students of color. GEMS campus example. Hand holding.
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Holistic Support Access to at least one institutional agent that they trust to provide the information they need, offer the help they seek, or connect them with the information or support that they require regardless of the problem or issue that they face. Serve as a connector of conduit.
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Humanized Educational Experience
Degree to which campuses are characterized by care for students, having a strong commitment to fostering student success, and fostering relationships between institutional agents and their students. By far, the most recurring salient theme in student stories.
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9 Characteristics of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments
Cultural Relevance: Five indicators focus on the ways that campus environments are relevant to the cultural backgrounds and communities of diverse college students: Cultural Familiarity Culturally Relevant Knowledge Cultural Community Service Meaningful Cross-Cultural Engagement Culturally Validating Environments Cultural Responsiveness: The remaining four indicators focus on the ways in which campus environments respond to the cultural norms and needs of diverse students: Collectivist Cultural Orientations Humanized Educational Experiences Proactive Philosophies Availability of Holistic Support Studies on sense of belonging. Terrell. Analysis in The Review % Both students of color and white students
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Responding to Barriers
Culture engagement as integral to success Relevance and learning are mutually reinforcing Students are a rich source of knowledge Think systemically Cannot treat inclusion/equity as an add-on. Engaging knowledge from one culture, provides learning opportunities for another. Some of most powerful change is informed by students. We must tackle systemic problems with systemic solutions.
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Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions
Individual Pedagogy and Curricula Institutional Support Structures Grants Library Resources Centers for Teaching and Learning Professional Development Communities of Practices Institutional Reward Systems Awards Promotion and Tenure Scaling Up
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CECE Surveys CECE Studies CECE Services Diagnostic tools
Culturally Relevant Pedagogues Targeted Support Programs (e.g., AANAPISIs) Social Justice Educators Student Activists Study of Data Use CECE Services Spinoff Frameworks Digital Resources Digital Briefing Series Professional Development Seminars Assessment and Evaluation Services
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smuseus@iu.edu cece.Indiana.edu
Thank You cece.Indiana.edu
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