In this session you will learn simple instructional techniques that benefit all users, technology tools that can be used to provide specific accommodations, and resources that are available to meet accommodation needs.  Register

Are you equipped to provide accessible content to your students? Bring your laptop to gain hands-on experience to strengthen your answer to that question.

This session will provide a brief overview of disabilities, challenges disabilities cause, and types of assistive technologies students may use to access your content. More importantly, this session provides practical guidance for applying accessibility best practices to your documents.

Attend with your laptop containing your existing documents (e.g., syllabus) and with your head containing an open mind with a touch of curiosity. Together we will resolve a few of the most common and most important accessibility issues. Let’s be a team to gain a sense of an accessible experience within this inclusive and safe learning space.

Come with an interest in creating accessible content. Leave with a strong sense that applying accessibility best practices opens the path of better experiences for all your students within our shared digital world.

This is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.   Register

Come develop a deeper understanding of inclusive excellence and why it is central not only to how we prepare students to lead, but also to how we engage all members of our USC community. Learn about the ways in which the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion seeks to operationalize inclusive excellence, as well as how we intend to use our equity and inclusion strategy to track the University’s effectiveness in four primary areas: compositional diversity, achievement, engagement and inclusion.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.   Register

Are there special considerations to keep in mind when teaching and mentoring with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)? This presentation will focus on lessons learned from teaching and mentoring using a DEIA lens. The session will include an opportunity for participants to ask questions, and share their perspectives on and experiences with teaching and mentoring students, especially from underrepresented backgrounds.

This is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.  Register

International students who pursue degrees at USC bring a wealth of cultural experience to campus, enriching the wider student body with access to broader perspectives and preparing them for a global workforce. They also experience challenges when relocating to the US, navigating cultural differences, acclimating to the unique features of US higher education, and managing linguistic challenges. This presentation will outline diversity, equity, and inclusion issues that are relevant to our international student population. Attendees will learn about the resources on campus that international students have found critical for meeting their unique needs and assisting with their integration within our community.

This is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.  Register

When you design your course, do you wonder whether you could be doing more to include cultural or community-based learning experiences? Do you wish you knew more about local cultural communities in South Carolina? In this interactive workshop, lessons from the Sea Islands will be explored including various examples of integrative and experiential learning activities. Participants will discuss and collaboratively craft a cultural or community-based learning experience, and the session will conclude with a formal question-and-answer session focused on addressing specific challenges participants have encountered when designing their course(s).

This workshop is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Integrative and Experiential Learning.  Register

Join us for a Mutual Expectations discussion on exploring the topic 'Inclusiveness in the Classroom' in our October session. This session will be a facilitated dialogue amongst participants examining what inclusiveness in the classroom means to them, what barriers may be in place that slow inclusiveness, and how we collectively work together to be more intentional in inclusiveness efforts.

We’ll have a FREE lunch for everyone!  RSVP

There are more than a million international students in the U.S. contributing about $38 billion to the economy in the last year, thus making international student mobility and education the 6th largest service export of the U.S. As true as those numbers might be, ample research shows that these students find it difficult to acculturate to the U.S. in many lived experiential aspects such as facing basic needs insecurities, and an inability to feel a sense of belonging on campus and the wider community.

This session will look at core facets of the Intersectionality framework (1991) by civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw in addition to other adjoining theories and perspectives while decluttering the monolithic treatment of international students in literature, research, and praxis.

Participants will be challenged to think critically about how they see international students currently and how a more humane reimagination is possible.

This is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.  Register

Are you equipped to provide accessible content to your students? Bring your laptop to gain hands-on experience to strengthen your answer to that question.

This session will provide a brief overview of disabilities, challenges disabilities cause, and types of assistive technologies students may use to access your content. More importantly, this session provides practical guidance for applying accessibility best practices to your documents.

Attend with your laptop containing your existing documents (e.g., syllabus) and with your head containing an open mind with a touch of curiosity. Together we will resolve a few of the most common and most important accessibility issues. Let's be a team to gain a sense of an accessible experience within this inclusive and safe learning space.

Come with an interest in creating accessible content. Leave with a strong sense that applying accessibility best practices opens the path of better experiences for all your students within our shared digital world.

This is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence. Register

Faculty who are transitioning into a new administrative/teaching role are invited to attend this informative session. Presenters Elizabeth Rollins and Jenny Powell will center equitable practices as they discuss specific examples of working within and across university, elementary school, and community spaces supporting the success of prospective, newly admitted, matriculated, and graduating students.  Register

The diversity in USC classrooms is rapidly increasing to include students from a range of countries and linguistic backgrounds. With all of the benefits that come from having a global classroom, there are challenges that are presented by this shift. As students try to succeed in a language that they do not natively speak and in a country where cultural differences can be confusing and overwhelming, these challenges often come to light in the classroom.

This session will equip you with strategies for ensuring that your international students successfully learn the material and meet your expectations in the classroom.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.  Register

Come develop a deeper understanding of inclusive excellence and why it is central not only to how we prepare students to lead, but also to how we engage all members of our USC community. Learn about the ways in which the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion seeks to operationalize inclusive excellence, as well as how we intend to use our equity and inclusion strategy to track the University's effectiveness in four primary areas: compositional diversity, achievement, engagement and inclusion.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence.  Register