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Follow Up: Next Steps

 

After the assessment and final project report were written, the Diversity Committee of the School of Communications presented our findings to our colleagues in a School of Communications faculty meeting.. 

 

In addition, we will work with the School’s Technology Committee to explore ways to develop a social-wiki site where the resource guide can be housed and teaching resources can be continually accessed, updated and discussed by all COM professors.

 

Our Resource Guide:


For this project, we have compiled a resource guide for infusing diverse perspectives, histories, and voices across the School of Communications curriculum. For each resource, we have provided a short synopsis of its content, and suggestions for how it can be utilized in communications course. Though the resource guide was initially developed with the introductory course of Communications in a Global Age in mind, we figured later that many of the resources in this guide are appropriate and applicable for others courses across our curriculum. We have used some of the materials in the non-introductory courses that we taught in Spring 2012. In the long-run, we hope that it will ultimately turn into some kind of wiki, so that faculties will be able to share with each other about their experiences using the materials, such as what worked well and what did not, as well as how a resource was used and in which setting. Ideally, faculties should also be able to modify and add new items to this guide to keep it live and growing.
 
When the resource guide was circulated within the School of Communications, we received feedback from colleagues saying that it is a “remarkable,” “well constructed,” “relevant,” “timely,” and “impressive” resource. Overall, we think our project is successful.
 
The main purpose of this project is to help instructors integrate diversity materials into teaching rather than helping students engage in diversity issues. Therefore, the instructors of this course are the target users of our project. We invited the instructors who were teaching Communication in a Global Age in Spring 2012 to use a couple resources in the guide and provide us with feedback. However, due to the fact that most sections of this course were taught by adjunct/part time professors in this semester, they were not able to engage in the full conversation of this subject. We were not able to collect much feedback from them. During the coming semesters when the course will be mainly taught by full-time faculties, we would continue to collect feedback and improve this resource guide. 

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