Notes & Lessons from a Faculty Learning Community on Diversity & Inclusion

Keywords: Diversity, Inclusion, FLC

Abstract: We designed and facilitated a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) of about eight faculty members on our campus to engage in a year-long conversation about diversity & inclusion in the classroom. A typical FLC has 8-12 participants, meets for 2 hours every 3 weeks for one academic year, and supports one another in learning, application, and SOTL around a topic of interest (ours was diversity & inclusion). This session will describe FLCs and will engage with participants in order to address questions and concerns about how to run a FLC. Further, we will address the takeaways we gained in our FLC regarding diversity & inclusion.