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.”
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.
Video Series on Implicit Bias – Jerry Kang, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003). California Newsreel. Also, the companion website.
- 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
Faculy College Program
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