Conversations with Dr. Paul Gorski: A Day of Re-Imagining Equity in Higher Education

About This Event

Paul will lead two workshops focused on re-imagining how staff and faculty can support diverse learners at Gonzaga. Attendees will learn more about potentially harmful practices and how we can move our thinking and service delivery models to promote success for all students. Learn more about each workshop below.

 

From Student Services to the Faculty Classroom: How Can We Shift to More Equitable Practices? 

Open to all GU staff and faculty.

• Day: 01/24/2023
• Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
• Location: Hemmingson North Ballroom

Specific learning outcomes for this event include:

• Learn to recognize subtle ways inequity might operate in institutional culture and practices
• Identify and consider how to dismantle barriers to equitable access that impacts our students
• Learn strategies for collaborating toward systems-level change

*All participating faculty will receive a certificate of attendance for use in their reappointment, promotion or tenure applications.

RSVP: Click here to reserve your spot.

 

Equity Issues in Elite Institutions: The Role of Faculty in Shifting the System.

Open to GU faculty.

• Day: 01/24/2023
• Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
• Location: Hemmingson Joann Jundt Lounge

Specific learning outcomes for this event include:

• Identify how we might carry a deficit ideology into our classrooms
• Learn how we can recognize and change these inequities in our day-to-day classroom practices and policies
• Learn strategies for collaborating toward systems-level change

*All participating faculty will receive a certificate of attendance for use in their reappointment, promotion or tenure applications.

RSVP: Click here to reserve your spot.

 

About Our Speaker:

Paul Gorski - Founder, Lead Equity Specialist, & Research Director

Paul is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute and EdChange. He has 25 years of experience helping educators, nonprofit workers, and others strengthen their equity efforts. He has worked with educators in 48 states and a dozen countries. He also is the research director of the Equity Literacy Institute, conducting and collaborating on research and other scholarship related to maximizing the transformative potential of equity efforts. Paul has published more than 70 articles and has written, co-written, or co-edited twelve books on various aspects of educational equity including Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap and Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (with Seema Pothini). Paul spent nine years on the board of directors of the National Association for Multicultural Education and five years on the board of the International Association for Intercultural Education. He earned a PhD in Educational Evaluation at the University of Virginia. He was a teacher educator at several universities for 15 years. He is also a father, a published poet, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and the biggest fan of Buster, his cat.