The EDI Faculty Fellowship cohort will focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Indigenization, and Open Educational Practices.
Introducing the six USask faculty members who have been chosen for the 2024-2026 EDI Faculty Fellowship.
- Dana Carriere (ESB)
- Kevin Chuang (Medicine)
- Brad Congdon (English)
- Joel Frey (Engineering)
- Simonne Horwitz (History)
- Carly Priebe (Kinesiology)
This group will focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Indigenization and Open Educational Practices along with staff from the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning (GMCTL).
The EDI Fellowship will follow a two-year model.
In Year 1, Fellows will:
- meet several times as a group to learn how to integrate EDI and Indigenization into their courses using Open Educational Practices,
- integrate EDI and/or Indigenization into at least one of their courses being taught in either the Fall or Winter terms of the 2024-2025 academic year, and
- share the lessons they learn from the changes to their courses.
In Year 2, Fellows will:
- meet as a group to learn how to support colleagues within their units to integrate EDI and/or Indigenization into their courses,
- support colleagues within their units to integrate EDI and/or Indigenization into their courses, and
- share ideas and lessons learned from this supporting this change within their units.
Outcomes of the Fellowship
1. Explain key terms associated with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Indigenization, and Open Educational Practices (OEP).
2. Reflect on and share about their positionality within the University and the larger community through discussions and personally through a method of their choosing.
3. Create or revise a course design plan to integrate EDI and/or Indigenization through the learning process and materials, so the course better reflects our University's community and enables an approved sense of belonging for learners in a course of the instructor's choosing.
4. Create or revise a course design plan to integrate EDI and/or Indigenization through the learning process and materials, to provide opportunities for students to meet the EDI competencies or Indigenization priority for a course of the instructor's choosing.
5. Support instructors in your unit to meet these outcomes through mentoring, workshops, or other methods deemed appropriate by the instructor and unit leadership.
To support this work the EDI Fellows will each receive $3500 per year, for two years.
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