Antiracism in Practice: Auditing our Syllabi for Equity

Presenter(s)

Melissa Winchell

Abstract or Description

This presentation will provide faculty with some considerations for antiracist course syllabus design. Organized as a "syllabus audit," the presentation will guide faculty through antiracist syllabus considerations such as language, cultural phrasing, visual appeal, accessibility, building relationships with students, representation, student supports, and antiracist course policies. Faculty will be encouraged to apply tenets of antiracism--including intersectional identity--to their own syllabus and to ask critical questions such as, For whom is my syllabus most accessible? Who is not represented in my syllabus? What assumptions or background knowledges do my course policies center or privilege? Faculty are encouraged to bring a syllabus from one of their own courses to the presentation to conduct their syllabus audit; in addition, the presenter will provide further resources to encourage participant's antiracist syllabus design.