The Campus Climate Committee and the School of Social Sciences are co-sponsoring a Multicultural Competence Retreat from 10 a.m. -2 p.m. on Friday, April 18 in the Student Union Multi-purpose Room. Due to limited seating, RSVPs must be made to holly.sautner@sonoma.edu by April 11.
The workshop is expected to hold a safe space for faculty and instructors to explore their own places of privilege, incorporate this awareness into their teaching with students and work relationships, explore ways in which participants can become allies to people included in the Big 8 of diversity (culture, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, gender, disability, age, and religion), analyze cases regarding issues of discrimination, sexism, etc., and brainstorm about effective way to resolve them, and present successful implementation of multicultural pedagogy.
Participants are asked to bring examples of multicultural pedagogy they use in their classroom and/or write up short description of cases involving multicultural issues.
Morning coffee and lunch are provided for all participants made possible due to a generous donation from School of Social Sciences (Psychology, MA) alum Vicki Bailey. Facilitators are Elisa Velasquez (Psychology), Jayamala Madathil (Counseling) and Bonnie Sugiyama (Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality).
