12:30PM
CU Denver Learning Commons

Join the Community of Practice: Designing Learning Spaces to Promote Success Among CU Denver First-Generation Low-Income Students of Color. What skills, practices, and technologies do faculty members deploy and/or need to design learning spaces that promote success among first-generation low-income students of color at CU Denver? Marty Otañez, Associate Professor in Anthropology and first-generation college graduate of color (Ph.D., 2004), will facilitate a series of three community of practice meetings among CU Denver faculty members in fall 2022 and spring 2023 with the intent to share experiences in and out of the classroom that contributes to the achievement of CU Denver first-generation low-income students of color. Discussion topics will be determined by faculty members who participate in the community of practice. We imagine topics may cover ways faculty members strengthen relationships with first-generation low-income students of color, apply culturally responsive and liberatory pedagogies that recognize our privileges as faculty members, integrate service-learning projects in course assignments, approach in-class peer engagement opportunities in course activities, and offer individual and group academic support. “Designing Learning Spaces” is informed by the work of Dr. Geneva Sarcedo, Academic Advisor, CU Denver School of Education and Human Development.