Congratulations to the 2023 cohort of the CTL's Inclusive Course Design Institute (ICDI)! More than 60 graduate students and post-docs from across campus competed for an opportunity to participate in this unique program. Facilitated by Dr. Michelle Gaston, Dr. Kaitlyn Farrell Rodriguez, and PhD Candidate Roxana Loza, the ICDI is a two-week intensive interdisciplinary institute designed to help new and experienced Assistant Instructors (AIs) design a course from the ground up. Over the course of two weeks in July, 34 selected participants worked synchronously via Zoom and asynchronously via Canvas on a variety of collaborative and self-reflective activities as they learned to integrate inclusive, accessible, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices throughout each stage of course design. By using principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and best-practices from other evidence-based course-design frameworks, participants developed a syllabus for a new course using inclusive strategies to maximize success for all students in their classrooms.
After a successful pilot with the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) over the past two summers, the CTL was able to open the program up this year to graduate students and teaching post-docs from any college across campus. The CTL extends its gratitude to the Graduate School and the COLA Office of Research and Graduate Studies for their generosity in providing stipends for this year's cohort and making this opportunity possible.
2023 ICDI Cohort
A. Cody Kuhn | Liberal Arts | Department of Government
Alex Klattenhoff | Pharmacy | Pharmacology and Toxicology
Amber Taylor | Liberal Arts | Program for Comparative Literature
Aneeq Ejaz | Liberal Arts | Department of Religious Studies
Becka Hahnel-Peeters | Liberal Arts | Department of Psychology
Carrie Hutchins | Communication | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Claire Brandes | Liberal Arts | Department of Anthropology
Eliane Quintiliano Nascimento | Liberal Arts | Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Emily Lessig | Natural Sciences | Department of Integrative Biology
Erika Slaymaker | Liberal Arts | Department of Sociology
Erin Hudson | Natural Sciences | Department of Nutritional Sciences
Henry Castillo | Fine Arts | Department of Theater and Dance
Jared Thorpe | Liberal Arts | Department of Sociology
Jase Kugiya | Education | Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
Jenny Lavery | Fine Arts | Department of Theatre and Dance
Jermani Ojeda Ludena | Liberal Arts | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Jo Hurt | Liberal Arts | Department of Rhetoric and Writing
Joseph Kotinsly | Liberal Arts | Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Kearstin Jacobson | Fine Arts | Department of Art and Art History
Kerry Waldrep | Liberal Arts | Department of Sociology
Kim McErlean | Liberal Arts | Department of Sociology
Kyle Capistrant-Fossa | Natural Sciences | Marine Science Institute
Livia Raulinaitis | Natural Sciences | Department of Integrative Biology
Mariana Escalona | Liberal Arts | Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Megan Young | Communication | Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Mohammad Afzal Shadab | Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences | Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Nic Bennett | Communication | Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations
Nikon Kovalev | Liberal Arts | Department of Germanic Studies
Piero Visconte | Liberal Arts | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Po-Heng (Nick) Chen | Natural Sciences | Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Robert Richardson | Communication | School of Journalism
Rodrigo Castillo Vasquez | Natural Sciences | Department of Physics
Shadi Ghafghaziasl | Education | Department of Special Education
Yiqiu (Echo) Yan | Education | Department of Educational Psychology