Institute for Inclusive Teaching Excellence Program

The Center for Teaching and Learning's (CTL) goal is to support high quality online/blended instruction that improves students’ experiences, academic success, and timely progress to graduation through a broad organizational approach that embeds quality assurance (QA) into our campus culture. The CTL has helped guide this work to better integrate faculty development, pedagogy, technology, and context in alignment with QA efforts, GI2025, CSU Priority 5, and Humboldt’s strategic plan. Associated programming guides the design of course structures, artifacts, technology, and pedagogy informed by the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) instrument.

The CTL’s Institute for Inclusive Teaching Excellence is an annual program that supports educators in reimagining teaching and students’ learning through an equity lens, while engaging in a community of practice that draws upon the strengths, opportunities, and perspectives of colleagues. The Institute begins with a three-day summer immersive experience to set the stage for the year-long program aimed at cultivating the critically reflective educator through engagement in course transformation across modalities.

Institute Outcomes

• Identify an action plan with stated inclusive excellence outcomes that draw upon an equity lens
• Create a draft plan for iterative assessment of student success measures
• Document the mindful integration of 21st century technology to support teaching and learning excellence
• Engage with colleagues across disciplines: present, provide feedback
• Critically reflect on one’s growth in the program
• Share your project at the CTL 4th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium in Spring 2023

During the 22/23 academic year, Institute participants engaged in a monthly learning community session intended to provide time to work on their course plans, as well as engage in collegial feedback. Sessions included explorations and discussions through resources such as the Course Action Plan Template, Humboldt Inclusive Teaching Guide, Course Equity Ratio Report, and the Teaching Development Plan where educators considered the question: What problem are you trying to address and how is your action plan working toward inclusive student success? In addition, each educator engaged in a feedback option of their choice, including collegial observation, Mid-Semester Feedback (student feedback), and QLT Peer Review, as well as at least one consultation with a CTL staff member to go through their course plan and prepare for their Digital Showcase presentation at the Teaching Excellence Symposium.

Sixteen educators across 12 departments participated in the Institute for Inclusive Teaching Excellence.  Their culminating experience was to join other campus educators in presenting their work at the Center for Teaching & Learning 4th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium: Reimagining Teaching and Learning Excellence. 

See the CTL Teaching Excellence Symposium Digital Showcase for a look at their specific projects that explicate inclusiveness.

Quality Assurance Team

• Enoch Hale, QA Co-facilitator
• Kimberly Vincent-Layton, QA Co-facilitator, QA Campus Coordinator

Campus Partners

• Center for Teaching and Learning Team
• College educators
• Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• College Deans
• Department Chairs

Campus Commitment Toward Sustainability of QA Efforts

• Creating a QLT culture through highly integrated CTL programming, QA reviews, consultations, and resources

• Creating policy and processes to further efforts through the successful adoption of a revised elearning policy

• Collaboration with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Academic Personnel Services to create an
  Instructional Observation Guide for online teaching evaluations with a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens

• Participation in the CSU Quality Assurance Professional Learning Community

• Educator submissions to QuARRY
  
  

Summary of Previous QA Accomplishments

• QLT Self-Reviews and Peer Reviews
• Creation of a public Pivot to Online Teaching Showcase of educator practices, resources, assessments
• Creation of a public Course Transformation Institute Showcase of disciplinary team projects
• Trained 18 faculty QLT Peer Reviewers and launched a QLT Peer Review Campus Team
• Revised eLearning policy
• Keep Teaching and Keep Learning web resources during pandemic/remote teaching
• Launched a Professional Development Hub (Canvas space) to support live workshops and 24/7 self-paced learning modules for faculty pivoting to online.
• Adapted the Professional Development Hub to the CTL Instructional Hub to meet educators where they are anytime, anywhere with ongoing opportunities to engage in learning

Dissemination of QA Efforts

• CTL Teaching Excellence Symposium Digital Showcase

• Teaching Excellence Symposium: Making Teaching Visible

• CTL webpage and Canvas course to facilitate QA reviews

• CTL Instructional Hub that houses the QA Review Process

• Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching sessions (campus and beyond)
  

Professional Development Completions

• Institute for Inclusive Teaching Excellence - 16 faculty participants across 12 academic departments (Summer Institute); 12 educators across 11 departments participated (Summer Institute and year-long learning community)
• QLT Peer Review Team - 18 faculty across disciplines, CTL team

Development of QA Campus Resources

• Updates to the Humboldt Inclusive Teaching Guide 

• Adoption of the new QLT version to inform programming and practices

• Build out more self-paced learning modules in the CTL Instructional Hub to include technology to support interaction and social presence

• Launch of Cidilabs Design Tools and related institutional templates, including Syllabus Template, Homepage Template, Assignment Template, and more to support educators in easily creating accessible, mobile-responsive content/design, as well as support students in easy-to-navigate courses
  
  
  

Humboldt has a deep commitment to meeting the needs of all our students. Through broad programming and intentional integration efforts, the CTL has made inclusive design a cornerstone of our work.

• Universal Design and Ally Campus Orientation & Training Sessions (partnership with CTL, Student Disability Resources Center, Accessible Resources Center)

• Ally in all Courses

• Applying Universal/Inclusive Design Through CTL Programming and Consultations

• CTL Faculty Learning Community on Inclusive Teaching 

• Creation and dissemination of Course Equity Ratio Report 

• Adoption of Humanizing Online STEM Academy

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