What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

There are 8 modules in this course

The course includes sessions with institutional leaders about higher education and American society, diversity and inclusion in learning and teaching, professors and students as change agents, socially-just research, and struggles for equity and justice on campus and in communities. Illustrative modules include: What is a university? What is the role or potential role of universities in making societies more socially just? Do present universities contribute to inequalities and injustices and, if so, how? What changes are needed now? Sessions will draw upon initiatives at the University of Michigan for starters, and we also will draw upon other educational leaders nationwide

Higher Education and American Society

Reconceiving Our Purpose

Reconceiving Learning and Teaching

Reconceiving Research & Scholarship

Institutional Change: Engaging Faculty

Institutional Change: The Role of Administration

Final Notes

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