Each year, the Fall Forum on Teaching and Learning brings together faculty from across DePaul's colleges and schools to connect and share strategies for teaching and learning. The Fall Forum starts the academic year with an event focused on pedagogy. This year, we are honored to have Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding, Director of Government and Community Affairs at Chicago State University, as our keynote speaker. Her talk, "After DEI: Preserving the Soul of Higher Education," will provide insightful discussions and activities centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. This workshop offers an opportunity for attendees to reflect on and enhance their teaching practices, focusing on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments.
Keynote Description
Long before the US Supreme Court’s decision on Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, DEI curricula and practices were under attack. Now, many wonder if the work is a lost cause. States have banned critical books; the teaching of Critical Race Theory; Ethnic/Race and Gender Area Studies. Some faculty no longer feel protected by the promises of academic freedom and intellectual inquiry. And higher education institutions have been forced to identify where freedom of speech can and cannot occur on campuses. If there is ever a moment to resuscitate our commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and overall justice, it is now.
Join Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding in a discussion on “After DEI: Preserving the Soul of Higher Education.” Her keynote address and workshop will focus on centering truth and conciliation in and beyond the classroom as we confront the complex realities of students’ needs, faculty obligations, and administrative responsibilities in these uncertain times. Together we will learn to develop a conscientious practice of truth-telling and radical transformation while uncovering systemic practice of inequity not just in our classrooms, administrations, and institutions, but in our everyday being.
Presenter's Biography
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is the Director of Government and Community Affairs at Chicago State University. She is also the founder of the Truth and Conciliation Commission, pastor Emeritus of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, and former associate professor of Women's and Ethnic Studies and interim Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. With a B.A. and M.A. in Literature from Clark Atlanta University and Purdue University, respectively, as well as a Ph. D. in American Studies from Purdue University, she specializes in critical race and gender studies, English literature, and American popular culture. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and a social justice activist who produces generative scholarship that reaches far beyond the walls of academia and well into transformative ministry and community healing.
Outside of her administrative role, Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is often called upon to expertly address and consult on issues concerning race and gender dynamics in American popular culture and society, both nationally and internationally. Additionally, she is the author of Abolishing White Masculinity: From Mark Twain to Hiphop and has written articles for Colorlines, The Feminist Wire, For Harriet, and NewBlackMan. As a faith leader and social justice worker, she has worked closely with grassroots organizations that include, but are not limited to, Vote Common Good, Just Democracy, Denver Metro Urban League, RawTools, Inc., the NAACP Colorado/Montana/Wyoming Regional State Conference, and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion.
Her intellectual, creative, and spiritual works grow out of her life as an African American woman engaged with liberation practices. As a dedicated servant-leader, Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding hopes to genuinely bring inclusion, innovation, and equity to every position and opportunity she encounters.
Agenda
11:00 am - 11:15 am
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Welcoming Remarks
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11:15 am - 12:15 am
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Interactive Keynote
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12:15 am - 1:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Workshop
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