[GuidedPathways] FW: 2021-2023 Antiracist Curriculum Initiative (ACI): Now Accepting Faculty Applications!

Fri Oct 8 15:24:50 PDT 2021

Dear Guided Pathways Family,

If you have not had the opportunity to consider and apply for the Antiracist Curriculum Initiative, please embrace this opportunity. It's a beautiful way for transformative change and the applicability will support anti-racist curriculum in English and beyond.

Find more content below from Carli Schiffner (SBCTC Deputy Executive Director of the Education Division) and Jennifer Whetham (Student Success Center & Strategic Initiatives Policy Associate).

Have an amazing weekend.

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[signature_198601869]Claudine Richardson, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.A.
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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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Dear Instruction Commission,

The SBCTC Student Success Center is excited to announce the 2021-23 Antiracist Curriculum Initiative<https://bit.ly/ACIOverviewforFaculty>.

Generously funded by the Washington State Legislature as part of SBCTC's supplemental operating budget for FY 21-23, our goal is to support 75 faculty leaders from all 34 of our community and technical colleges in a sustained and compensated faculty professional learning experience designed to align and supplement your college's guided pathways redesign.

Asao B. Inoue, national expert in antiracist writing assessment is leading a multi-racial leadership team<https://bit.ly/ACILeaders>. Over six quarters, faculty participants will perform antiracist curriculum reviews of their ENGL&101 courses and implement labor-based grading as a antiracist strategy to address a key essential practice: increasing the number of students who successfully complete ENGL&101 within their first year of enrollment through a rigorous focus on closing equity gaps for historically underserved students of color (HU-SOC).

This project will actively apply multiple lessons learned from the pilot year of the Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecology (AWAE) grant, generously funded by College Spark Washington, particularly around working effectively with the needs of multiple stakeholders involved. Because faculty participation in this project impacts their teaching load and course assignments, as well as a sizeable distribution of monies to the college in a form of a miscellaneous grant to compensate faculty for their antiracist labor, the success of this complex project relies on SBCTC staff working closely with deans, Vice Presidents of Instruction, and college business offices-- both before faculty work on the project begins and over the 6 quarters of the project.

Student Success Center staff members will present to the Instruction Commission to address any concerns or questions.

Please see below for initial communications to faculty who teach ENGL&101 from policy associate Jennifer Whetham to the (de)Composing ENGL&101 listserv<https://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/decomposingengl101_lists.ctc.edu>, which consists of faculty members who attended one or more meetings of our quarterly community of practice meetings between fall quarter 2017 and spring 2020. This message has also been communicated to the faculty participants of the AWAE pilot<https://bit.ly/3l6KpiR> at the first large group convening<https://bit.ly/3AQcEbb> for the Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecology (AWAE) by our AWAE core team<https://bit.ly/3hyZLsV>.

We look forward to partnering with you and your faculty as SBCTC embarks on this landmark initiative in the spirit of the SBCTC Vision statemen<https://www.sbctc.edu/about/dei/>t to lead with racial equity.

Sincerely,

Carli Schiffner

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Subject: Now Accepting Applications: Antiracist Curriculum Review Initiative

Antiracist Curriculum Initiative (ACI)

1.5M Legislative Investment for the 2021-2023 Biennium

Short URL to a google document of this information: https://bit.ly/ACIOverviewforFaculty

Application: https://bit.ly/ACIApplicationForm

Cultivating Antiracist Faculty Leaders on Campuses

*       Have you been trying to close equity gaps in your English 101 courses, but not seeing the results you would like?

*       Have you been eager to employ more equitable teaching and learning strategies in your 101?

*       Are you unsure where to start? Or what the impacts might be once you start?

The Antiracist Curriculum Review Initiative will support faculty who teach ENGL&101 in a statewide community of practice to actively engage with these crucial questions. If you are interested in implementing antiracist assessment practices, including labor-based grading, and becoming an antiracist leader in your discipline and on your campus, please consider applying.

Overview

As part of its supplemental operating budget for FY 21-23, SBCTC has received an investment of 1.5M to fund faculty in performing antiracist curriculum reviews of their ENGL&101 courses. Asao B. Inoue, the leading expert in antiracist writing assessment, working closely with multi-racial leadership team<https://bit.ly/ACILeaders>, will design and implement a process for faculty to engage in an antiracist curriculum review and implementing labor-based grading in ENGL&101 with three goals:

*       Increase the number of students who successfully complete ENGL&101 within their first year of enrollment

*       Close equity gaps within that outcome indicator

*       Build a model for antiracist curriculum review and implementing labor-based grading that can be used in other courses and disciplines

We seek 2 to 3 faculty members from each of the 34 colleges willing to:

*       take a deep dive into antiracist writing assessment practices (Inoue 2015<https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/inoue/>) and labor based grading contracts as form of ungrading (Inoue 2019<https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/labor/>)

*       perform an antiracist curriculum review of their ENGL&101 course(s)

*       implement labor-based grading in at least 1 section of ENGL&101 during fall quarter 22 and at least 1 section of ENGL&101 during winter quarter 23

Both full-time and part-time faculty may apply.

How Are We Defining Antiracist?

Please read our leadership team's shared understanding of the term "Antiracist<https://bit.ly/ACIDefinitionofAntiracist>."

What Kind of Work is Ahead?

You'll be working collaboratively over six academic quarters beginning winter quarter 2022 and concluding spring quarter 2023. During this period, your weekly work on this project will be modest but sustained. It will consist of primarily the following:

*       weekly antiracist teaching journal entries and labor log entries

*       written discussions of two shared antiracist writing assessment readings (asynchronous discussions)

*       monthly synchronous meetings (online)

*       participation in a three-day Institute during spring quarter (May 3-5, 2022)

*       antiracist revision of your ENGL&101 syllabus and grading practices

*       implementation of revised ENGL&101 course over two quarters (Fall 2022 and Winter 2023) employing labor based grading

*       final drafts of your antiracist ENGL&101 course materials for public distribution

You can also see a detailed list of the faculty deliverables and compensation at a glance<https://bit.ly/ACIFacultyDeliverables> that shows the main work you'll do by academic quarter.

To Apply

Please fill out this relatively brief google form<https://bit.ly/ACIApplicationForm>.

Because faculty participation in this project impacts their teaching load and course assignments, as well as a sizeable distribution of monies to the college in a form of a miscellaneous grant to compensate faculty for their antiracist labor, the success of this complex project relies on SBCTC staff working closely with deans, Vice Presidents of Instruction, and college business offices-- both before faculty work on the project begins and over the 6 quarters of the project.

To ensure participating faculty are compensated in a timely fashion and get the classes they need to actually implement the project, SBCTC staff need the support of multiple institutional stakeholders.

Therefore, we ask faculty who wish to apply first confirm with academic leadership (dean and Vice President of Instruction) that they are able to support your application for this project before you submit the application form. After faculty are selected, the Vice President of Instruction will be asked to affirm his/her/their commitment for selected applicants and accept the funding to support them in writing. In support of applicants, SBCTC staff will work with the Instruction Commission to build an understanding of the project and foster support.

We realize that in some cases faculty may not feel comfortable going to their academic leadership for a variety of reasons. If you have concerns about this requirement of your application, please contact jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu>, and the SBCTC staff will help you in whatever ways we can.

Timeline

*       Application Period Opens: October 1st, 2021

*       Application Period Closes: October 22, 2021 at 11:59 PM

*       Faculty Notified: November 20th, 2021

*       Work Begins: January 1st, 2022

Questions?

Please contact Jennifer Whetham at jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu>

[Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges compass]Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)

Student Success Center & Strategic Initiatives | Policy Associate

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)

jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu> * o: 360-704-4354 * c: 206-310-1291

Join Us for the 2021 Fall Faculty Institute! Agenda at a Glance<https://bit.ly/3xxLSlS>

SBCTC Vision: "Leading with racial equity, our colleges maximize student potential and transform lives within a culture of belonging that advances racial, social, and economic justice in service to our diverse communities."