Treating diversity and related social, political, religious, and/or cultural dynamics in the curriculum and promoting classroom environments and curricula that invite all students to engage and thrive in their choice of study have been the focus of To Include is To Excel as well as the work of the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts and many departments and faculty members. Recent examples include:
- Opening Day speakers and all-employee discussions of issues related to diversity, teaching an increasingly diverse student body, and addressing changing needs of students for faculty and staff: 2013, 2016, 2018, and plans for 2019
- NSF grant: “Experiences in Metacognition and Early Research to Increase Degree Completion of STEM Undergraduate Students”
- Recent curricular changes, including
- Revision of the Multicultural Studies – Domestic requirement;
- Revision of the American Conversation;
- “Race Matters” Conversation;
- Recent tenure-track hire in world musicology;
- Expanded staffing in the RACE program;
- Music 245: “Music and Social Justice”
- Political Science 121: “Conservative Philosophy in History”;
- Spanish 232 (FOL): “Latinx Experiences in the United States.”
- Over 32 curricular and pedagogical projects supported through To Include is To Excel
- On-going curricular development
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Revision of the General Education Curriculum (in process)
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Continued development of courses engaging themes of interreligious dialogue by the Religion Department
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“Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum” national conference sponsored by St. Olaf.
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