43rd Annual Faculty College 2023:
Teaching  & Learning with a Social Justice Lens

THE OSTHOFF RESORT AT ELKHART LAKE, WI
MAY 30-JUNE 2, 2023

 

Plenary Speaker

Dr. Lisa Brock

“You can be diverse without being inclusive. You can have inclusivity without equity. You can have equity without justice. Social Justice requires a deep inquiry into the systems that create oppression, and its aim is to eradicate them. In order to do that we must develop transparent life-affirming imaginaries, institutions, and communities.”

Dr. Lisa Brock

 

Lisa Brock (aka Doc Brock) is a retired professor and activist who has spent her life in social justice movements and over thirty years in higher education. She fought for girls’ rights in her middle school, sat-in for the first African-American studies course in her high school, organized against police abuse in college and became a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in graduate school. She holds a B.A. from Howard University and a master’s and doctorate in History from Northwestern University. She was a Fulbright-Hayes researcher in Europe and Africa and spent ten years as founding Academic Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College.

As an academic leader, she has led consequential and transformative changes on every campus that she has worked, especially in the area of curricular diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion. She has engaged in this work at universities, liberal arts colleges as well as arts institutions. Brock has exceptional skills in social justice management and is currently working with conscious business and community leaders who wish to make a social justice impact.

While a specialist in Transnational Black Studies, Brock has a wide range of knowledge in all areas of oppression and resistance. She develops workshops and trainings with widely diverse groups that are prepared to take a probing look at racism, anti-racism, other forms of oppression, and social justice. These workshops intentionally center the voices and experiences of those most impacted by injustice but are created with the idea that all people, no matter their identities, ages, genders or sexualities can become anti-racist social justice agents of change. Doc Brock inspires regular people to make what the late Congressman John Lewis called “good trouble” for justice.

Dr. Brock’s role at Faculty College is to lead participants in an unpacking of unconscious privilege and bias, overt and covert racism, and power relations in teaching and learning. By using a social justice lens, we will examine oppression, intersectionality, and ways to teach that first, do no harm while inspiring all students, staff, and faculty to embrace liberation thinking and work in solidarity with each other. University teams are encouraged to bring big and small challenges they face in centering issues of racism and other oppressions in their work. We will talk, share, and think about courageous ways to enhance our ability to lean into a more just teaching and learning practice.

 

Resources

  • Artze-Vega, I. and Darby, F., Dewsbury, B. and Imad, M. (2023). The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. WW Norton & Company.

  • Barry, L. (2014). Syllabus: Notes from an accidental professor. Drawn & Quarterly.

  • Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress. Routledge.

  • Imad, M., Dewsbury, B. and Foote, S. (2002). (Re)engaging Faculty in the Age of Burnout: A Wicked Problem. The Journal of Faculty Development, Vol. 36, No. 3, 92-86.

  • Martinez, A. (2020). Counterstory. Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English.

  • Watt, S.K. (Spring 2007). Difficult Dialogues, Privilege and Social Justice: Uses of the Privileged Identity Exploration (PIE) Model in Student Affairs Practice. The College Student Affairs Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, 114-126.

  • Tatum, B.D. (2017) (originally published in 1997)." Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria" And Other Converstations About Race
  • Davis, A., Dent, G., Meiners, E., Richie, B.(2022). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 
  •   The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study . (2013). Open access.  Suggested : Chapter 2 – The University and the Undercommons; Chapter 7 - Interview (some people suggest reading the Interview first) –Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.

  •  Brock, L. (2016) I Don't do Diversity, I do Triage.
  • Artze-Vega, I. and Darby, F., Dewsbury, B. and Imad, M. (2023). The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. WW Norton & Company.

  • Barry, L. (2014). Syllabus: Notes from an accidental professor. Drawn & Quarterly.

  • Hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress. Routledge.

  • Imad, M., Dewsbury, B. and Foote, S. (2002). (Re)engaging Faculty in the Age of Burnout: A Wicked Problem. The Journal of Faculty Development, Vol. 36, No. 3, 92-86.

  • Martinez, A. (2020). Counterstory. Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English.

  • Watt, S.K. (Spring 2007). Difficult Dialogues, Privilege and Social Justice: Uses of the Privileged Identity Exploration (PIE) Model in Student Affairs Practice. The College Student Affairs Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, 114-126.

Programmatic inquiries may be directed to:

Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, UW System, fakindes@uwsa.edu

For technical support contact:

Erin McGroarty, Office of Academic Affairs, UW System, emgroarty@uwsa.edu

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University Teams

Avonlea Hanson- Lead

Charlotte Clark

Anna Cook

Ben Fine

Damir Kovacevic

Tiffany Lewis

Matt Seymour

Margaret Weber

Kyle Whipple

Jidong Zhang

Kris Vespia- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Roshelle Amundson

Shara Cherniak

Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

Mary Gichobi- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Macrae Husting

Breeyawn Lybbert

Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier

Kimberley Reilly

Christine Smith

Kristin Koepke- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Cord Brundage

Ashley Edwards

Kate Evans

Tisha King-Heiden

Bryan Kopp- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Recep Pekdemir

Jason Sumontha

Eugenia Turov

Jessica Welsh

Megan Schmid- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Amanada Ferrante

Sharon Gartland

Alexia Rebne

Beth Rosen

Sarah Riforgiate- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Heidi Anoszko

Rachel Baum

Angie Izzard

Alberto Maldonado

Megan Orcholski

Ann Raddant- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Bhagwant Singh Sindhu

Hilary Snow

Benjamin Traeger

Jordan Landry- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Byron Adams

Amber Lusvardi

Heidi Nicholls

Alayne Peterson

Lisa Shreibersdorf

Juyeon Son

Carrie Tirel

Houa Xiong- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Maria Franshaw- Lead

Madhumita (Mita) Banerjee

Parag Dhumal

Raghava Gundala

Russell Johnson

Dan Martin

Hilary Rasmussen

Adrienne Viramontes

Courtney Wirtz

Holly Attenborough- Lead

Kamil Can Bora

Kameko Halfmann

Syed Moiz

Ganapathy Natarajan

Dan Nugent

Wendy Perkins

John Peterson

Raymond Pugh- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Sarah Strange

Veronica Justen- OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Charlie Corcoran

Daniela Goldfine

Rachelle Haroldson

Chris Holtkamp

Erik Kline

Suelle Micallef Marmara

Scott Mitchell

Jill Coleman Wasik

Kathy Welch

Erin Speetzen- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Aaron Baker

James Berry- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Karin Bodensteiner

Sirin Budak

David Chunyu

Lauren Gantz

Yue Li

Sarah Manasreh

Erica Ringelspaugh

Sarah Ross

Sylvia Tiala- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Kevin Dietsche

Riley Drake

Kelly Droege

Abhi Ghosh- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

"Kate" Xiojing Liu

Sara Lynne Willett

Kenny Mullins

Matt Simoneau

Vivek Singhal

Molly Welch Deal

 

Jamie White-Farnham- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Max Gatyas

Taylor Gombos

Priyanka Mehta

Shanna Nifoussi

Josh Stangle

Jennifer Vogler

Alison Wielgus

Angela Wood

Susan Wildermuth- OPID Advisory Council, Lead

Ken Brosky- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Memeber

Caleb Bush

Rocio Duchesne-Onoro

Christine Hoover

Rashiqa Kamal

Nadine Kriska

Jessica Lauer

Brian Leeper

Naomi Rahn

Courtney Wilt

UW-Eau Claire

Anna Cook, Fellow 

Damir Kovačević, Fellow 

UW-Green Bay

Roshelle Amundson, Fellow

Kimberley Reilly, Scholar 

UW-La Crosse

Cord Brundage, Fellow

Kate Evans, Scholar

Eugenia Turov, Scholar

UW-Milwaukee

Megan Orcholski, Fellow

Hilary Snow, Fellow

UW-Oshkosh

Lisa Schreibersdorf, Scholar

Sarinda Siemers, Scholar

UW-Parkside

Maria Franshaw, Fellow

Hilary Rasmussen, Fellow

UW-Platteville

Ganapathy Natarajan, Fellow

Sarah Strange, Fellow

UW-River Falls

Chris Holtkamp, Fellow

Erik Kline, Fellow

UW-Stevens Point

Lauren Gantz, Scholar

Sarah Ross, Fellow

Erica Ringelspaugh, Fellow

UW-Stout

Kenneth Mullins, Scholar

Vivek Singhal, Fellow

UW-Superior

Joshua Stangle, Scholar

Jennifer Vogler, Fellow

UW-Whitewater

Rashiqa Kamal, Scholar

Courtney Wilt, Fellow