Applied Inclusive Excellence: Facilitated Discussion on Broadening the Use of Evidence-Based Inclusive Pedagogies

Program Abstract: To make high quality college education accessible to students from all backgrounds, course instructors need to use inclusive pedagogies. Yet broad adoption of inclusive practices often meets challenges associated with lack of awareness and skills, workload concerns, unclear values alignment, and low institutional recognition for the work. This facilitated discussion will explore the literature demonstrating the positive impact of inclusive instruction for students. We will then stimulate debate on how to encourage more faculty and more departments to adopt inclusive strategies and include them in evaluation of faculty progress toward promotion and/or tenure. As grantees in the HHMI Inclusive Excellence initiative, session facilitators predict mutual benefits for all participants in this discussion, as we share our preliminary work in this domain while also soliciting attendees’ ideas, all with underlying emphasis on institutional vocabularies and conditions that promote (or prohibit) pedagogical progress for faculty, and thus inclusive success for students.