Inclusive Excellence: Learning and Development ―

Goal:  Create and sustain resources for faculty, staff and  administrators to broaden ability to teach and advise students from diverse social locations. 
 

Program/Initiative

 Description

 Contacts

The Diversity Inclusion Research Institute (DIRI) is a faculty-run initiative dedicated to offering professional development opportunities to BSU campus members focused on enhancing research, scholarship, creative endeavors and other practices in higher education that are informed by culturally inclusive principles.

Primary Contact:
Sabrina Gentlewarrior sgentlewarrior@bridgew.edu

DIRI Board Members

• Wing-kai To

• Carolyn  Petrosino

• David O'Malley

• Joyce Anderson Rain

• Michael Carson

• Karen Fein

• Erin O'Connor

• Amanda Brozana

• Sabrina Gentlewarrior
   

Teaching for Inclusive Excellence facilitators offer monthly discipline-specific programming for full and part-time faculty on culturally inclusive pedagogies.

Primary Contact:
Sabrina Gentlewarrior
sgentlewarrior@bridgew.edu

Ann Brunjes
abrunjes@bridgew.edu

TIE Facilitators

• Anne Doyle

• Sabrina Gentlewarrior

• James Hayes-Bohanan

• Nancy Van Leuven

• Jeanne Aurelio

• Margaret Lowe

• David O'Malley
   

 
Faculty Advising Coordinators will coordinate discipline-wide advising for students in Project Compass (first-generation, low income and students of color).

Primary Contact:
Joel Litvin
jlitvin@bridgew.edu

FACs

• Ruth Hannon

• Stan Ross

• Bjorn Ingvoldstad
   

Programming developed focused on culturally inclusive teaching and learning. To include, workshops, seminars, panel discussions and guest speaker events.
 

Primary Contact:
Ann Brunjes
abrunjes@bridgew.edu

In an effort to normalize diversity and inclusion efforts, culturally inclusive and engaged pedagogies, research and scholarship can be used as one criterion for reappointment, tenure, promotion and PTR materials.
 

Primary Contact:
Sabrina Gentlewarrior sgentlewarrior@bridgew.edu