Faculty Development Events

May 2021

Writing@Bates, the Office of Equity & Inclusion, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty 

  • May 28, 2021 12:00 – 2:00 pm
    We are pleased to host scholars for a discussion of equity and inclusion in the context of a central aspect of a Paul Kei Matsuda (Arizona State University), Genevieve García de Müeller (Syracuse University), and April Baker Bell (Michigan State University) Bates education: the teaching of writing. Please join us for a guided conversation on teaching across linguistic and cultural difference, language awareness, translingualism, antiracism, and Black linguistic consciousness raising.

    No advance registration is necessary. Join the session by clicking on the zoom link at the time of the event (no RSVP is necessary):

    https://bates.zoom.us/j/93970877809

Office of Equity and Inclusion

  • [Workshop] Wednesday, May 5  4:30-6:00pm | Reexamining “Allyship”: How Might We Move Beyond Performance & Toward Conflict Transformation? A workshop with Ombudsperson Kimberly Jackson-Davidson of Oberlin College | Register Here
  • [Panel] Friday, May 7⋅12:00 – 1:30pm Disability in the Academy moderated by Dr. Theri A. Pickens, Professor of English and Chair of Africana at Bates College | Register here

AAAS-IUSE Initiative

  • Promoting Equity in Undergraduate STEM Classrooms through Pedagogical Approaches
    May 13, 2021
    2:00 – 3:00 PM
    Register Here

    How can we promote equity in our undergraduate STEM courses? In this workshop hosted by the AAAS-IUSE Initiative, speakers discuss different pedagogical approaches to advance equity for underrepresented students in STEM. First, Dr. Roni Ellington asks participants to examine their current curricula, instructional and assessment practices through a culturally responsive lens that will promote equitable student outcomes. Next, Dr. Chandralekha Singh explains the need to look beyond innovative pedagogy to ecological and psychological pedagogical practices to ensure students feel included in their STEM courses. This workshop provides participants with pedagogical practices to integrate into their undergraduate STEM courses to advance equity for underrepresented groups in the classroom.

April 2021

C3 Creating Connections Consortium2021 C3 Summit:  Pandemics: Race, Healing, and Transformation in Higher Education

  • April 8-9, 2021

    All programming is virtual! Everyone is welcome! Register here:  https://c3transformhighered.org/2021-summit/ 

    C3 — Creating Connections Consortium — of which Bates is a lead institution, works to address the challenges of equity and inclusion in higher education by building capacity, investing in talented undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from underrepresented groups, and creating and nurturing connections between partners interested in institutional change.

    The C3 Summit is a dynamic gathering of undergraduates, grad students, faculty, and administrators who are working to increase diversity in the academy, broaden scholarly voices, and develop new realms of knowledge.  

    You’ll find the whole program on the website, but please note that several  Bates students and faculty will be speaking at this year’s event, and other Bates faculty will be moderating panels.

    This year’s Summit, hosted by Williams, will be fully remote. You can sign up by clicking here:  
2021 Summit

HHMI Leadership Team: Can We Talk?

  • We are very excited to announce that Kendall Moore, Ph.D., will be joining us on April 9th and April 30th from 3 to 5pm for a moderated discussion of her film series “Can We Talk?” 

    From her website: “The film series Can We Talk? explores the issue of ‘social belonging’ in the context of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and the effect it has on the lives of underrepresented people of color (UR-POC) who are pursuing an education or career in STEM; or, have decided to leave because of an overwhelming feeling of not belonging. […]  In post-discussion screenings, it has become explicitly clear that institutions want to expand the STEM workforce to include UR-POC, but how to do that, moving forward, requires a better understanding of the lives lived (currently and historically) of UR-POC. “
  • The trailer for the first film can be found here: https://www.kendallmooredocfilms.com/can-we-talk

    We will have streaming access for the film for 48 hours before the discussion date (so on April 7th). I will send you the link next week with instructions on how to access the film. 
  • For now, please register for the moderated discussion that will take place on April 9th: https://bates.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf–grzsrGtzY1hETMICmy3qn2yTlnzhT

Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Office of Equity and Inclusion

  • Community Engagement for Racial Equity & Liberation, with special guest Tania Mitchell, will take place on April 28, from 4:15-5:30. It is for faculty who want to launch or deepen their community-engaged learning praxis.  Tania D. Mitchell is an associate professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota. An internationally recognized scholar of community engagement, her research focuses on service-learning as a critical pedagogy to explore civic identity and leadership, social justice, student learning and development, race and racism, and community practice. She interrogates practices in higher education that aim to contribute to a more just world. Her scholarship has been published in numerous books and journals and she is the editor of four books, most recently Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons (SUNY Press, 2019).
  • Register here: https://bates.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuivqT4uG908X6IGD5mAQyNZP9y5s8wr
  • Questions may be directed to Darby Ray at the Harward Center.

Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) 

  • Reducing Political Tension in the Classroom Tuesday, April 13 @ 12pm
    CEEP is continuing our webinar series for faculty and staff. We will discuss what ground rules are in a classroom and how to implement them, how to set up an environment for fostering civic dialogue in the classroom, the differences between partisanship and nonpartisanship in a classroom setting, and share resources. To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/CEEPWebinar. 

Office of Intercultural Education

  • “Addressing Anti-Asian Racism and Advocating for Anti-Racism and Racial Solidarity.”

    Jennifer Ho, an Asisan American Studies scholar

    Thursday, April 15, @ 7:30pm
    REGISTER HERE to receive the Zoom webinar link.
    SUBMIT QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS HERE through the Google Forms survey.

    Dr. Ho will be discussing the long history of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia in the United States, which has been made strikingly visible given the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 and the mass shootings in Atlanta. Dr. Ho will also speak about the relationship between anti-Black and anti-Asian racism, and share strategies for being an anti-racist advocate. There will be time at the end for a brief Q&A session. All members of the Bates community (students, faculty, and staff) are welcome and encouraged to attend. This event is graciously sponsored and supported by the OIE.

    Community members are encouraged to read through this website to get a preview of what Dr. Ho will be discussing on April 15. We also strongly encourage you to submit questions ahead of time via this Google Forms survey so that Dr. Ho can address the interests of the community. All submissions will be anonymous, but may be shared openly at the event.

Office of Equity and Inclusion

  • Native and Indigenous in the Academy

April 21, 2021 6pm ET

Register here  

The Office of Equity and Inclusion invites you to join with four Native and Indigenous faculty in a discussion about issues such as decolonization in higher education, navigating the academy as students and faculty, the tenure and pay gap, identity, and power.

Panelists:  Dr. Rebecca Polet, Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College; Darren J. Ranco, PhD, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine; Hugh Burnam (Hode’hnyahä:dye’), a citizen of the  Mohawk, Wolf Clan from the Onondaga Nation and PhD Candidate in the Cultural Foundations of Education program at Syracuse University; and Dr. Matthew Williams, an artist, educator, and enrolled tribal member of The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Muhlenberg College. 

Moderator: Dr. Kristen Barnett, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Bates College.

UP NEXT:

[Workshop] Saturday, April 24⋅11:00am – 2:00pm | Truth Racial Healing and Transformation III — Action Planning with Demi Brown of Millsaps College | Register Here

[Workshop] Wednesday, May 5  4:30-6:00pm | Reexamining “Allyship”: How Might We Move Beyond Performance & Toward Conflict Transformation? A workshop with Ombudsperson Kimberly Jackson-Davidson of Oberlin College | Register Here

[Panel] Friday, May 7⋅12:00 – 1:30pm Disability in the Academy moderated by Dr. Theri A. Pickens, Professor of English and Chair of Africana at Bates College | Register here

  • This is a brief message encouraging you to join the Office of Equity and Inclusion in the practice of learning and reflection. This month, discussion spaces will be held in response to the following questions: How have implicit beliefs in racialized social hierarchy affected our community? What can we do to disrupt the legacy of caste towards equity?

    To discuss how an understanding of Caste can benefit our community, join one of the following groups:

    1. Caste’s impact within BIPOC communities (telling the truth and building solidarity)
    2. Caste: “Normal” , “Fit”, and “the way things have always been”
    3. Caste in the curriculum

    Though participants are encouraged to read Caste (contact Nicollette Mitchell if you are in need of a copy), each discussion will be centered around specific case studies, podcasts, and excerpts from the text that will be shared broadly and would require ~1hr of pre-meeting preparation.  Meeting time(s) will be decided based on shared availability of those who sign up.

March 2021

Announcements:

  1. Grinnell College is holding a virtual summer institute for liberal arts college faculty on the theme “The Humanities in Action: The Future of the Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges.”  The event will take place from June 7-10, 2021.  For more information, go to their website.
  2. Bates is partnering with USM and UNE to host a Virtual Summit on Restorative Justice in Maine Higher Education on Saturday, March 6.  For more information, click here.
  3. It’s not too late to join (or re-join!) the Purposeful Work Infusion Project during this module – Infusion is a curricular program that has been going strong since Winter 2014. If your class makes (or could make) explicit connections between course content and work, career, meaning and/or purpose, please join infusing in Module C! Numerous faculty across all disciplines successfully infused their courses during fall semester (modules A and B) – the inclusion of virtual guest speakers in our new Zoom world is a natural fit! Intrigued? More information is available online at the Purposeful Work Infusion website.
  4. The Office of Equity and Inclusion would like to pass on a message from the Lewiston YWCA about a national opportunity to foster critical awareness towards racial equity and justice. the YWCA 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge is a series of daily challenges created to dedicate time and space to build more effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of race, power, privilege, and leadership.

    This challenge is happening at YWCAs across the country and has a suggested donation of $21 for participation in this event.

    Click here to learn more and to sign up

    Please contact mherrera@ywcamaine.org with comments, questions, and concerns regarding this opportunity.
  5. Please Note: You can asynchronous resources for course redesign, and pedagogy here.

Writing@Bates & the Office of Equity and Inclusion:

  • Please join us on Thursday, March 25 from 5:00 to 6:30pm for Antiracism & The Teaching of Writing: A Bates Community Panel, an event jointly facilitated by Writing@Bates and the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Join the session by clicking on the zoom link at the time of the event (no RSVP is necessary):
    Zoom: https://bates.zoom.us/j/94311922911

Office of Equity and Inclusion:

  • Dr. Justin Rose “Black in the Academy” on March 2, 5:30pm (rescheduled)

    The Office of Equity and Inclusion invites you to join us in a conversation with Dr. Justin Rose to discuss the issues black people continue to experience in Academia: isolation, microaggressions, persistent stereotyping, racism and more. 
    Zoom link: https://bates.zoom.us/j/97905812919?pwd=QmFINTUzajNlOHBFUHpTS0laNEVCZz09
  • March 12 [Panel] Asian and South Asian Women in the Academy  | 4:30pm Register Here
  • March 15 [Workshop] Hollaback! : Bystander intervention to stop anti-Aisan/ American harassment and Xenophobia | 6pm Register Here
  • March 16 [Panel] Antagonizing White Feminism – co hosted with FemCo and Gender and Sexuality Studies- conversation with the co-editors (Noelle Chaddock/Beth Hinderlier)  |  5:30pm Register Here
  • March 17 [Workshop] Hollaback! : Bystander Intervention 2.0 Conflict deescalation training | 2pm Register Here
  • March 19 [Workshop] Hollaback! : How to respond to harassment for people experiencing anti-asian/American Harassment | 4pm Register Here
  • March 23 BIPOC and Talk | Community Space for BIPOC staff, faculty, and students | 6:30-8pm (link coming soon)
  • March 30th [Workshop] Deconstructing Power Privilege and Oppression | 12pm Register here

Kroepsch Award Talk: Josh Rubin, 2020 co-Winner 

  • “Conditions of Possibility and the Momentum of Little Things”
  • Monday, March 15, @ 4:30pm
  • Pre-registration required: bit.ly/kroepsch

February 2021

Office of Equity and Inclusion Events: Click on the embedded links below for each event to learn more and register.

February 3rd, 4:45-6 pm

Monday, February 8, 12:00-1:00 pm

  • BatesConnect in Action with professors Andrew Mountcastle, Anita Charles, and Bill Wallace
  • Click here to register. 

Monday, February, 15th, 4:30-6:00 pm

February 16th, 12:30 pm

Friday, February, 19, 12-1 pm

  • Investigating Ideas: Jiyoung Ko and Wes Chaney
  • Jiyoung Ko (Politics) will talk about Boycotting around Flag? Why Nationalist Boycotts Do not Endure in International Relations.
  • Wes Chaney (History) will talk about Forgotten Hills: Law, Environment, and Social Transformations on the Margins of Tibet and China.  
  • Zoom link: https://bates.zoom.us/j/92991625298

Monday, February 22 at 12 pm

  • Writing @ Bates: Proposing a First-Year Seminar or W2 Course.The process for proposing a writing-attentive course (a course catalogued with the “W” attribute) is relatively straightforward, but it goes most smoothly with some preparation. In this workshop, we’ll cover the system for proposing a new W1 or W2 course for both new and experienced proposers, and the criteria that are used to assess W courses. Attendees can plan to leave with a clear idea of what to expect from the process, and with guidance for addressing the questions posed by the proposal system.
  • zoom link: https://bates.zoom.us/j/93002154723
  • Writing @ Bates is excited to be able to offer four weekly sessions of Thesis Cafe this semester starting on Monday (Feb. 22). To accommodate thesis writers’ varying time zones, learning environs, and social comfort levels, we are offering two in-person Thesis Cafes and two Thesis eCafes via Zoom (Monday & Weds in person, both 7-9pm; Tuesday 7-9pm & Thursday 9-11am via Zoom). Please find the full schedule with Zoom links and more thesis support information on ARC’s website here. Please also distribute often and widely the attached flyer to thesis writers you know and work with.

Wednesday February 24 at 6:00 pm:

  • Please join the Bates Museum of Art for a lively panel discussion about the relevance and influence of Ashley Bryan’s career as an artist and author.
  • Featuring: Krista Aronson, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology at Bates College in addition to the Director & Founder of the Diverse BookFinder, Daniel Minter, Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Indigo Arts Alliance, Márçia Minter, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Indigo Arts Alliance
  • Facilitated by Dan Mills, Director, Bates Museum of Art
  • For more information and to register click here

January 2021

Tuesday (1/19) 11:00-11:30 AM 

  • Learning Glass Live! Jamie Watkins and Michelle Holbrook-Pronovost
  • LS has added a Learning Glass to its teaching resources in the Coram Viz Lab.  During this session, we will demonstrate the Learning Glass live so that you can see this virtual whiteboard in action and learn more about its many applications.
  • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP

Wednesday (1/20) 1:00-2:15 PM 

  • Faculty Panel on Remote Teaching. Katie Adkison, Leshui He, Andrew Mountcastle, Tiffany Salter
  • This panel describes practices and strategies for teaching fully remote courses. The panelists’ varied experiences teaching remotely this past fall provide an occasion to engage and re-consider this particular challenge in preparation for Modules C and D.
  • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP 

Thursday  (1/21) 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Revamp Your Lyceum Courses for Modules C & D. Shauna’h Fuegen and Ashley Wilbur
  • Lyceum is equipped with several organizational features, both new and longstanding, that could benefit your COVID classroom this winter. In this workshop we will cover how to add targeted blocks to your course page, as well as layout options for your course materials. Blocks can highlight important course content for students, such as assignments and discussion forums. Course format can be displayed at weekly sections, topic sections, and a new format that arranges your materials to appear within a ’tiles’ format.
  • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP 

Thursday (1/21) 1:00-1:30 PM

  • Learning Glass Live! Jamie Watkins and Michelle Holbrook-Pronovost
  • ILS has added a Learning Glass to its teaching resources in the Coram Viz Lab.  During this session, we will demonstrate the Learning Glass live so that you can see this virtual whiteboard in action and learn more about its many applications.
  • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP

January 25-27 (9am-4pm each day)

Please consider joining colleagues at Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges for two additional professional development opportunities this month, facilitated by CBB Pedagogy Matters:

  • Three Day Course Design Experience, 
  • Participants engage in a morning webinar followed by individual work in a small group Zoom room with the guidance of a small group facilitator. In the afternoon, participants will return to the small group Zoom room to work on feedback provided on the morning activity, engage in additional activities related to the theme of the day, and participate in a large group reflection activity. Participants should expect to work on CDE activities throughout each day, with breaks for coffee and lunch (on your own). Have your Module C course(s) ready to go before February! 
  • Register Here.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2:30 – 4:30 pm EST,

  • The Office of Equity and Inclusion invites you to join us on Tuesday, January 26th at 2:30 – 4:30 pm EST, as we re-offer the first session in a three-part series on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation with Demi Brown, Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Officer at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. This opportunity is open to students, staff, and faculty at Bates College. We are re-offering the first session so those who were not able to join us in November have the opportunity to participate in the three-part series and the work that follows.
  • The second session is scheduled for Tuesday, February 2nd at 11:30am – 1:30pm EST. Participants are required to have completed the first session before moving to the second. 
  • You can join the first session here and will be asked to register when you log in. Please take a few minutes to read Rewriting the Dominant Narrative: How Liberal Education Can Advance Racial Healing and Transformation in preparation for our time together on Tuesday.
  • The truth, racial healing, and transformation framework is designed to help communities move beyond the transactional nature of reconciliation to the substantive work of transformation through “truthful narratives”, the work of “dismantling the hierarchy of human value”, and the convening of “racial healing circles” as they have been developed by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 
  • If you have questions, please contact our Vice President of Equity and Inclusion, Noelle Chaddock at nchaddoc@bates.edu.

January 27 (10-11:30 am, incorporated into the Course Design Experience if you are also participating in that). 

  • Promoting Equity through Inclusive Teaching Practices Workshop, Sponsored by Bowdoin College. After providing a framework for inclusive teaching, Professors Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy of the University of North Carolina will draw upon their own teaching experiences and educational research to model various technology-based strategies that can be readily implemented with any discipline or class size to help all students achieve their potential in both online and face to face formats. 
  • See full workshop description by visiting the Registration Page.

January 27, 12-1 pm

January 27, 1-2 pm, and 3-4 pm
Museum Kiosk: Your Gateway to Our Collections

January 27, 4:30 pm

ILS Workshops – December 2020

  • Incorporating Remote Students in a Synchronous Course. Anelise Shrout, Justine Wiesinger, Luke Chicoine and Mark Tizzoni.
    • Tuesday, Dec. 8th: 11:00 AM – Noon
    • This panel describes practices and strategies for incorporating remote students in in-person classes. The panelists’ varied experiences and successes provide an occasion to engage and re-consider this particular challenge in preparation for Module C.
    • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP. Contact Michael Hanrahan at mhanrahan@bates.edu with any questions.
  • Media Projects with Adobe Spark. Jamie Wakins, Katy Ott, Daniel Sanford and Stephanie Wade.
    • Wednesday, Dec. 9th: 11:00 AM – Noon
    • Adobe Spark is a web-based platform that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on original visual content. This session will provide an overview of how to use this platform to create webpages and video slideshows, and will also include a discussion of its potential applications for student media projects and assignments.
    • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP. Contact Michael Hanrahan at mhanrahan@bates.edu with any questions.
  • Virtual White Boards.  Michelle Holbrook-Pronovost.
    • Wednesday, Dec. 9th, 1:00-2:00
    • This session provides an overview and demonstration of two readily available resources — Google Jamboard and Zoom Whiteboard — that provide digital writing surfaces for a range of writing and drawing activities. The session will also include a demo of equipment available to faculty who need precise virtual writing and drawing tools.
    • Please complete this simple webform to RSVP. Contact Michael Hanrahan at mhanrahan@bates.edu with any questions.

Fall 2020: Module B

October 19, 2020 ~ Monday 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm Economics Seminar –  The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations

  • Trevon Logan, Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
    Zoom link: https://bates.zoom.us/j/98587764741
    Sponsored by the Casey Lecture Fund – Economics
    All Are Welcome!
    For more information contact Leshui He at lhe@bates.edu

Monday, October 26th, 4:45-6 pm: Ask Me Anything: Civic Engagement of BIPOC People when Voting Doesn’t Seem Like a Useful or Productive Act

  • Panelists Drs. Leslie Hill, Krista Aronson, Rachel Roberson, Andrew Baker, and Charles Nero
    Moderated by Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Noelle Chaddock 
    Join Zoom Meeting:  https://bates.zoom.us/j/95202863635

Thursday, October 29, 2020 ~ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm: Economics Seminar –  United States Pre Trial System

  • Crystal S. Yang, Professor of Law, Harvard University
    Thursday, October 29, 2020 ~ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
    Zoom link: https://bates.zoom.us/j/98587764741
    Sponsored by the Casey Lecture Fund – Economics
    All Are Welcome!

Friday, October 30th, 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Investigating Ideas: Lauren Ashwell and Susan Stark

  • Susan Stark will talk about the idea of making reparations for historic and ongoing injustices, and how, and under what conditions individuals in the present can be responsible for harms of the past. Lauren Ashwell will talk about her work on what makes words slurs, and the conditions under which reclamation of a slur is possible.
    Join Zoom Meeting: https://bates.zoom.us/j/91059685816

Engaging Your Classroom Community Through Multimodal Writing

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17 12p- 1pm https://bates.zoom.us/j/99108954445
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17 4p-5pm https://bates.zoom.us/j/99108954445
  • This workshop will offer multimodal writing strategies that you can use to help students engage in your classroom community. Virtual hands-on activities will allow you to practice these strategies with relevant writing technologies. Attendees may bring a writing activity or idea they wish to revise or develop.

Ethical, Effective, Efficient, Evidence-Based Feedback

  • Thursday November 19th 12p-1pm https://bates.zoom.us/j/99548338529
  • Thursday November 19th 4:30pm-5:30pm https://bates.zoom.us/j/99548338529
  • In this workshop, participants will review research about responding to students’ writing; they will make plans to apply this research to their own teaching in ways that are ethical, effective, and efficient; and they will discuss other issues around communication with students during these unusual times.

Investigating Ideas: Andrew Baker (History) and Michael Rocque (Sociology)

Fall 2020: Module A

September 11, 2020, 2:30-4:00 pm, EDT

  • Commons Conversations: In pursuit of its mission to advance the College’s commitment to inclusive excellence and educational justice, the Office of Equity and Inclusion is offering the fall’s first Commons Conversation on Friday, September 11th at 2:30 PM. VP for Equity and Inclusion Dr. Noelle Chaddock invites the campus community to participate in a thought-provoking dialog about 13th, a documentary by director Ava Duvernay about the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the US” as well as an important discussion centering on race in our own Bates community.

    Reserve your spot HERE
    Prewatch for this session: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
    For questions contact Kelly Stone at kstone@bates.edu

Wednesdays 7:30 pmCOVID-19 Science Café

  • A new online Science Café focusing on SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 disease. Throughout the fall on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, scientists, doctors, and nurses will talk about different aspects of the pandemic including frontline stories, evolving patient care, and vaccine development.

    Here is a list of upcoming events. Zoom link forthcoming.
    • October 7, Dr. John Raimo MD, Forest Hills Hospital, How patient care and health care training has evolved during the pandemic. 
    • October 14th, Dr. Evelynn Hammonds Ph.D., Harvard University, COVID-19 and Racial Disparities
    • October 21, Lorian de Oliveira NP,  My experience as a pregnant and COVID-19 positive nurse in Boston during the pandemic
    • October 28, Dr. Lorien Batt MD, Waterville Pediatrics, Pediatrics and the pandemic
    • November 4th, Dr. Lori Banks Ph.D., Bates College Department of Biology. Vaccine technology and development.
    • November 11th, Dr. Stacey Rizza MD and Dr. Jack O’Horo MD MPH, The Mayo Clinic. The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: updates on its development
    • For more information contact Larissa Williams at lwillia@@bates.edu

Monday, 9/28 at 4:30 PM

Economics Seminar – Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of HumansJennifer Doleac, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Justice Tech Lab Texas A&M University

Sunday 10/4, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, EDT
OR Wednesday, 10/7, 3:00-4:30
Commons Conversations 

  • In pursuit of its mission to advance the College’s commitment to inclusive excellence and educational justice, the Office of Equity and Inclusion is again offering this fall’s Commons Conversations. VP for Equity and Inclusion Dr. Noelle Chaddock invites the campus community to participate in a thought-provoking dialog about 13th, a documentary by director Ava Duvernay about the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the US” as well as an important discussion centering on race in our own Bates community.

    Reserve your spot HERE for October 4th, or HERE for October 7th.

    Prewatch for this session: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

    For questions contact Kelly Stone at kstone@bates.edu

Monday, October 12 from 6:00-7:45 PM Indigenous Peoples Day

  • Please join Dr. Lori Banks, Dr. Kristen Barnett, and Dr. Ian Khara Ellasante for a panel discussion on land acknowledgments.
    Zoom link forthcoming
    For questions contact Kristen Barnett at kbarnett@bates.edu

Sunday, October 11th from 9:00 – 11:00 AM
Commons Conversations: Shape the Direction of Equity and Inclusion Work at Bates

  • In pursuit of its mission to advance the College’s commitment to inclusive excellence and educational justice, the Office of Equity and Inclusion invites you to a discussion about the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

    What is racism? Is police brutality really about race? What if I talk about race wrong? What are microaggressions? Talking is great, but what else can I do? This conversation will be moderated by Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Noelle Chaddock and Director of Equity and Inclusion Education, Nicollette Mitchell.

    Reserve your spot for the book discussion and sign up to get a copy of the book here.

August 2020

Saturday, August 1st, 5:00-6:30 pm

  • Commons Conversations and ‘Let’s Talk About Race’ (The Original)
  • Register Here

Monday, August 3rd, 10:30 – 11:30

Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday, August 12th, 1:00 – 2:30pm

  • Facilitating Democracy: Fostering Civic Conversations in College Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) presents our first faculty dialogue webinar event Facilitating Democracy: Fostering Civic Conversations in College Classrooms. The webinar will be held on August 12th, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 pm EST. This webinar training will offer guidance and practice on how faculty members can guide conversations about politically charged issues to healthy dialogue in the classroom. It will also be useful for faculty teaching synchronously online in the fall.

    We will share with participants four CEEP faculty-focused dialogue resources:
    • Talking About Elections in Your Classrooms 
    • Campus Civic Discussion
    • How to Talk About Political Issues in the Classroom
    • How to Talk About Political Candidates in the Classroom
  • Join us for this dialogue webinar by registering here: https://forms.gle/pbFuMZa8y7vXyALx8. We will limit the webinar to 50 people, so be sure to register as soon as you can! If you have any questions about the event, please contact Faculty Resources Coordinator Rachael Houston at rachael@campuselect.org. 

August 11-13, 2020

  • CBB Course Design Experience. The CBB Course Design Experience (CDE) is a place for faculty and instructors to start the design of a new course or rethink the design of a pre-existing course. The title of the experience suggests that participants will design a course during the 3-day or 3-week institute.

Wednesday, August 19th, 9:30 – 11:30am

  • FYS Writing Workshop, Part II
    This workshop is open to any instructor teaching an FYS or W1 course. It will recap and extend the content from the first, August 7 workshop: Taking a Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Writing in the FYS/W1 (here is the recording and here are the Google Slides for that). This second workshop will be more interactive than the first and will focus on specific writing assignments and writing technologies you can use to engage in sound writing instruction in your remote, in-person, or hybrid FYS. A recording and the slides of the Part II workshop will also be made available to all instructors soon after the live workshop.

    Join by Zoom: https://bates.zoom.us/j/98687072887
    For questions contact Eric Dyer (edyer@bates.edu)

Friday, August 21st, 9:00 am – 3:15 pm

  • CBB Pedagogy Matters Annual Conference
    This year’s theme is Energizing Learning with the Science of Emotion, a particularly relevant topic given this time of teaching during a pandemic.The day’s events will take place from 9am – 3:15pm, and will feature a faculty panel, keynote, Birds of a Feather disciplinary lunches, and an afternoon workshop. Please feel free to attend as little or as much as your schedule allows. Full details can be found at the Pedagogy Matters conference website.

    Please register at your earliest convenience.
    For questions contact Shauna’h Feugen (sfeugen@bates.edu)

Monday, August 24th 2:00-3:30

  • Faculty Workshop: Short Writing Assignments for Short Courses
    This workshop will explore pedagogical and practical considerations in using the type of shorter, more frequent writing assignments that not only are better suited to intensive courses, but are also helpful in fostering critical thinking.

    Join by Zoom: https://bates.zoom.us/j/94968188852
    For questions contact Eric Dyer (edyer@bates.edu)

Monday, August 24th 3:30-5:00

  • Panel: Back to Bates: Strategies and Solutions for the “classroom”
    Bates faculty members Carrie Diaz-Eaton, Luke Chicoine, and Therí Pickens will share their plans for the fall to highlight and illustrate best practices for remote, hybrid, and in-person teaching/learning using concrete examples. Presenter topics will include digital tool selection, with attention to access and equity, balancing options and overload in a hybrid classroom, and building community in the classroom this year. Significant time will be spent in activities and conversations to help you work through lingering fall course development issues.

    Please register here, noting what teaching mode you are most interested in discussing when we break out into smaller groups. But, registration is not required for attendance.

Tuesday, August 25th 2:00-3:30

  • Faculty Workshop: Engaging Community in Remote Environments
    This workshop will offer teaching strategies and simple technologies that promote community and reflection in peer-to-peer and instructor-to-student(s) interactions around writing. Participants will engage in virtual hands-on activities to practice these technologies and strategies. Facilitated by Bridget Fullerton

    Join by Zoom: https://bates.zoom.us/j/92771510278
    For questions contact Eric Dyer (edyer@bates.edu.)

Wednesday, August 26th 2:00-3:30

  • Faculty Workshop: Designing Formal Writing Assignments for Intensive Classes
    In this workshop, participants will review best practices for designing formal writing assignments, they will consider the essential elements of their assignments in relationship to course outcomes, and they will have the opportunity to collaboratively revise their assignments for intensive courses. Facilitated by Stephanie Wade.

    Join by Zoom: https://bates.zoom.us/j/94757833645
    For questions contact Eric Dyer (edyer@bates.edu)

July 2020

Friday, July 31st, 10:30-12:00 pm

  • Commons Conversations and ‘Let’s Talk About Race’ series
  • What to do when race comes up in your classroom, office, club, residence hall, dinner conversation
  • Register Here

Thursday, July 30th,⋅1:00 – 2:00 pm

Tuesday, July 28th, 10:00-11:30 am

Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30

  • July 1, 2020 at 1:00-1:30 pm or July 2, 2020 art3:00-3:30 pm: BatesConnect: Creating and Evaluating Assignments. Join Andrew Mountcastle, Darby Ray, and Ellen Alcorn for this short program about how to develop and evaluate student assignments for BatesConnect, a new online platform that allows Bates students to create and upload presentations, videos, and other learning products developed in the context of a Bates course and designed for use by local K-12 educators with their own students. Useful for both in-person and remote teaching.  
    July 1: Register here
    July 2: Register here
  • July 6 and 7, 2020 4:00 – 5:30 pm MT: Remote Institute on Block Plan and Intensive Teaching & Learning; Two webinars hosted by Colorado College. Register here.

    Throughout the last several years, institutions across the country and the world have shown increasing interest in block plan and intensive course schedules. Such interest has only intensified in response to threats posed by the global pandemic. 

    Although Colorado College had to cancel our in-person Institute this summer, we are restructuring elements from our original program and will offer two webinars with colleagues from around the globe. Panelists will be presenting on the following topics, followed by opportunities for extensive Q & A:

    Details regarding these free Zoom webinars will be coming soon at https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/facultydevelopment/institute/

June 2020

  • June 4, 2020 at 11:00 am: How we show up for LGBTQIAP+ Students & Colleagues:

    You are invited to join the Office of Equity and Inclusion for our Active Support Training webinar! This training will provide a basic introduction to topics including: LGBTQIAP+ identities & intersectional experiences, terminology and pronouns, community member’s experiences at Bates, and best practices for supporting our student, faculty and staff members of this population. The webinar will be held on Thursday, June 4th from 11:00am -12:00pm. Staff and faculty from all departments are welcome to attend and no previous knowledge or experience is necessary. To register please visit this link. Please note that registration is required to attend. For any questions in advance of the webinar, please reach out to Natalie Bornstein at nbornste@bates.edu.
  • June 15, 2020 at 9:30 – 11:00 am: Strengthening inclusive excellence at Bates: Building community and empowering our students by Kathy Takayama, Executive Director, Teaching and Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland-College Park.

    Topics include: alternative assessments; barriers to inclusion; helping students prepare, engage, and be present; metacognition; values affirmation;
  • June 17, 2020 at 3:00 pm: STEM Inclusive Teaching webinar series: The Role of Educators in Dismantling Systemic Racism. Presenter Kelisa Wing, Professional Development Specialist at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). This episode will build from Kelisa Wing’s recent blog post calling for educators to hold themselves accountable for dismantling racial oppression. There is an unmet potential for educators to teach tolerance, ensure representation, and disrupt the system of oppression for our students and colleagues. Kelisa will provide specific, actionable ways educators can make a difference in the lives of the students they serve.
  • June 22, 2020 at 9:00-9:30 am or June 23, 2020 at 1:00 pm: Democratic Engagement: QuickBite Videos, Voter Engagement Moments, & More – Join Sam Boss, Peggy Rotundo, and Darby Ray of the Harward Center for this brief overview of resources relevant to any course/discipline, including the new Democracy QuickBites series of super-short videos; ideas for quick & easy Voter Engagement Moments in a course; and more. Useful for both in-person and remote teaching.
    June 22: Register here  
    June 23: Register here
  • June 24, 2020 at 1:00 pm: Classroom Conversations about Race: How to Anticipate, Plan, Respond and Make Space. Faculty will have a chance to think about and plan for the inevitable conversations about race that will flow into and out of our classrooms this year. As we know, students want faculty to be able to create space and respond in meaningful ways to the national and local racial climate regardless of discipline. This module will help faculty identify resources and frameworks that all them to be prepared for these rich learning moments in any classroom. Join via Zoom
  • June 23-25, 2020: Following the positive reception to the May Institute, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges are teaming up again to support faculty redesigning their courses in advance  of the modular structure this fall. The CBB Course Design Experience will take place June 23-25, providing faculty with focused time to consider one of their upcoming courses. Facilitators from the three colleges will provide research, guidance, and feedback as you revisit your learning objectives, assignments, and assessments. 

    Note: Due to the intensive and high-touch nature of this event, registration is limited to 25 participants per institution. Register now to claim your spot. 

    An asynchronous version of the Course Design Experience (lasting three weeks instead of three days) will be available in July, and both the three-day and three-week  experiences will be offered again later this summer. Please contact me with any questions.
  • June 26, 2020 at 2:30 pm: Faculty/Student Remote Survey Report
    Institutional Research will be hosting a webinar to share the results of the surveys. During the first 45 minutes of the webinar, the Institutional Research staff will present the results. During the second half, we will field any questions that faculty and staff may have. We are still sorting out some of the logistics for the webinar and will share the link for accessing it as soon as it is available. Zoom here.
  • June 29, 2020 at 9:00-9:30 am or June 30, 2020 at 1:00-1:30 pm: BatesConnect: What is it? How does it work? + Examples of student work. Join Andrew Mountcastle, Darby Ray, and Ellen Alcorn for this brief introduction to BatesConnect, a new online platform that allows Bates students to create and upload presentations, videos, and other learning products developed in the context of a Bates course and designed for use by local K-12 educators with their own students. Useful for both in-person and remote teaching.
    June 29: Register here
    June 30: Register here
  • Curricular and Research Computing will offer weekly virtual workshops on a range of resources that promote active learning, collaboration, and enhanced uses of Lyceum.  We have targeted resources that are equally applicable for face-to-face and remote instruction.  The schedule for the week of 6/29 includes:
    • Perusall: Tues. (6/30): 10:00 -11:00 AM 
      A “social annotation” platform that allows students to annotate words, passages, or sections of assigned texts (in PDF, MS Word, or MS Excel format). Perusall encourages close reading, allows students to engage asynchronously with each other, and uses “writing analytics” to evaluate and score student annotations. To register please complete this simple form.
    • Virtual Whiteboards: Tues. (6/30): 1:00-2:00 PM
      This session provides an overview and demonstration of several virtual white boards (Zoom Whiteboard, Openboard, and Miro) that provide digital writing surfaces for a range of writing and drawing activities. To register please complete this simple form.
    • Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Rush: Thur. (7/2): 1:00-2:00 PM
      Adobe Premiere Rush is an introductory video editing program that’s useful for editing your lectures, presentations, how-to videos, etc. This easy-to-use program allows users to trim, split, and arrange video clips on a timeline, as well as incorporate images, titles, transitions, and audio elements such as music and voice overs. To register please complete this simple form.

Curricular and Research Computing (ILS) Workshops

Curricular and Research Computing is offering weekly virtual workshops on a range of resources that promote active learning, collaboration, and enhanced uses of Lyceum.  We have selected resources that are equally applicable for face-to-face and remote instruction.  


The full schedule appears below.  To register for any of the sessions, please complete the registration form. (If you have already registered for a session scheduled for this week, there is no need to register again).

Workshop Schedule

Basic Practices for Accessible Course Materials
Thu., July 9: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

This session will cover best practice for universal design, including a demonstration of YouTube’s self-service captioning.

Audio Projects with Adobe Audition
Thu., July 9: 10:00-11:00 AM

Tue., July 21: 10:00-11:00 AM

Adobe Audition is an industry-standard software for recording, editing, and mixing audio. A useful tool for creating podcasts and audio lectures, it allows users to record audio using a built-in or external microphone; to trim, edit, and rearrange individual audio files; and to export and share their work in both .wav or .mp3 formats. 

Google Assignments
Tue., July 7: 10:00-11:00 AM
Tue., July 14: 1:00-2:00 PM

Google Assignment is a new Lyceum Activity. It allows you to create, analyze, and grade coursework quickly and securely by providing access to the annotation and commenting features of Google Docs from within Lyceum.  

Interactive Videos using H5P and Lyceum
Tue., July 7: 1:00-2:00 PM

Tue., July 14: 10:00-11:00 AM

H5P is a new suite of tools integrated into Lyceum. Among its applications, it allows instructors to create interactive videos (including inserting questions into a video to gauge understanding or check progress or adding annotations or links).

Perusall
Tue., June 30: 10:00-11:00 AM

Tue., July 21: 1:00-2:00 PM

A “social annotation” platform that allows students to annotate words, passages, or sections of assigned texts (in PDF, MS Word, or MS Excel format). Perusall encourages close reading, allows students to engage asynchronously with each other, and uses “writing analytics” to evaluate and score student annotations. 

Synchronous Chat Options
Thu., July 16: 10:00-11:00 AM
Thu., July 23: 1:00-2:00 PM

This session provides an overview and demonstration of several resources (Lyceum Chat, Google Hangouts, etc) that provide low-bandwidth, readily available synchronous communication channels for collaboration and discussion.

Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Rush
Thu., June 2: 1:00-2:00

Adobe Premiere Rush is an introductory video editing program that’s useful for editing your lectures, presentations, how-to videos, etc. This easy-to-use program allows users to trim, split, and arrange video clips on a timeline, as well as incorporate images, titles, transitions, and audio elements such as music and voice overs.

Video Editing with iMovie
Thu., July 16: 1:00-2:00

iMovie is an introductory video editing program that’s useful for editing your lectures, presentations, how-to videos, etc. This easy-to-use program allows users to trim, split, and arrange video clips on a timeline, as well as incorporate images, titles, transitions, and audio elements such as music and voice overs. (N.B. iMovie is compatible with macOS and iOS devices only).

Virtual Whiteboards
Tue., June 30: 1:00-2:00 PM
Thu., July 23: 10:00-11:00 AMThis session provides an overview and demonstration of several virtual white boards (Zoom Whiteboard, Openboard, and Miro) that provide digital writing surfaces for a range of writing and drawing activities.

To register for any of the sessions, please complete the registration form. (If you have already registered for a session scheduled for this week, there is no need to register again).\