by Ingrid Stobbe Throughout my time teaching I’ve developed the practice of opening classes when possible with a new joke – usually featuring a pun, for reasons we will visit…
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Sign up to join a community of instructors in transforming your teaching to be more inclusive, collaborative, and equitable in academic year 2020-21. Sign up by September 1st. Are you…
by Lisa Danker Kritzer Protests following the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, have raised greater awareness of how racism pervades all institutions and rituals of daily…
by Jennifer Proctor With widespread shelter-in-place orders and the sudden shift online, our lives as faculty teaching media have been altered radically. We and our students have new and unexpected…
by Michelle A.Wolf How can your understanding of shy, anxious, uncertain and marginalized students help them participate in class and group discussions and projects? Did you watch the 2020 Grammy…
By Frederick W. Gooding The 2020 Academy Awards feature merely one single nomination of a Black actor. Hmmm. This year’s slate of Oscar nominations simply read like the eight or…
by Gabby Sumney At an informal gathering of faculty and staff of color, a staff member whose focus is Inclusion and Equity asked the faculty present how we handle…
by Augusta Palmer Five years ago, I co-founded the St. Francis College Women’s Film Festival. Co-founder Magaly Colimon-Christopher and I wanted to create a place for our female students to…
by Kathryn Voorneveld Before starting at Florida State University, Stevenson Guerrier dealt with hardships and barriers that could have stopped him from coming to college. With the death of his…
As a culminating event following the University of Film and Video Association‘s annual conference, EDIT Media will hold an “unconference” and strategic planning meeting at the University of Minnesota on…
