CAFE Winter Institute
About Winter Institute 2025
The goal of CAFE Winter Institute 2025 is to empower faculty with practical pedagogical tools, robust scholarship, and a community of peers to create anti-racist classes that promote equity, justice, and success for all students.
The goal of the Winter Institute aligns with campus goals to reduce racialized equity gaps in courses and to create a welcoming campus climate via offering positive classroom experiences for all students. CAFE’s mission which the Winter Institute contributes to, is to foster a vibrant faculty community in which faculty are connected to one another and feel confident to offer the best classes and learning experiences possible.
Whether you have participated in CAFE’s previous Institutes for Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning (2022, 2023, and 2024) or not, you will gain valuable knowledge from the Winter Institute, as we hope to build on our past sessions as well as introduce new topics. Participants may continue with Faculty Reciprocal Peer Coaching in Spring 2025.
Faculty of any discipline and any stage in the faculty career are welcomed and encouraged to participate. We have capacity for 40 faculty participants and hope to have a mixture of new and returning participants.
Thanks to the generous collaboration of the Office of Student Success & Innovation, we are able to offer $750 stipends for full participation and completing "deliverables." You will be able to choose from several options for deliverables that best address your courses and your own priorities. Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome to participate but unfortunately cannot be paid.
We are grateful to Dr. E'Lisha V. Fogle (Collins College of Hospitality Management) and Dr. Cindy Pickett (Psychology), Provost’s Fellows for Inclusive Excellence, who are contributing substantially to the program’s outcomes, content, and activities.
Format and Schedule
This is a 5-day in-person Institute, to be held on CPP campus. Please plan to be on campus in person January 7 - 9 and January 13 & 14, 2025, 10am to 4pm. We will provide an optional loving kindness meditation each day, 4:10 - 4:30pm.
In addition to featuring speakers and community discussions, the schedule includes ample time for private work on Institute deliverables. Individual coaching and feedback will be available.
Outcomes
Foundational knowledge
- Define anti-racist teaching and distinguish anti-racist teaching from inclusive teaching
- Gain several workable, applicable strategies for an anti-racist classroom
- Recognize classroom micro-aggressions
Application
- Plan to implement anti-racist strategies that are appropriate for our classes
- Create or modify a signature assignment with anti-racist principles in mind
- Plan to respond to classroom micro-aggressions
Integration
- Articulate how the principles and practices of anti-racist teaching might address unjust structures in the university and in our disciplines
- Recognize and articulate differences in experiences of people of various identities; “disaggregate” our thinking
Human Dimension
- Identify values in our disciplines that support anti-racism and consider how our practices may enact those values
Caring
- With faculty peers, provide and receive collegial feedback that offers thoughtful critique in a caring way, aware of the complex personhood of the recipient
Learning to Learn
- Plan your own anti-racist teaching using theoretical and practical frameworks
- Create a private learning plan to progress in anti-racist principles and practices in your teaching and discipline
For questions, please contact CAFE at cafe@cpp.edu.