Upon completion of the ARPAC workshop, participants will:
- Identify, articulate, and analyze how race, racism, and privilege are manifested in our classrooms;
- Adapt various approaches for developing antiracist pedagogy within our classrooms; and
- Apply strategies to transform how race, racism, and privilege are manifested in our institutions.
The Virtual ARPAC Workshop will be offered online through Zoom. The five half-day sessions include synchronous content and activities with built-in break times, along with reading, reflection, and application assignments to be completed outside of those scheduled hours. Participants are expected to arrange their schedules so they can fully participate in all sessions.
Topics focus particularly on incorporating antiracist pedagogy across the curriculum.
Participants will:
- Engage with a framework for understanding what systemic racism is and its relationship to white dominant culture in the United States;
- Begin to explore how the values of white dominant culture operating through US institutions replicate patterns of intersectional oppression that advantage white people disproportionately and that harm people of color regardless of intent;
- Deepen their understanding of inclusion, racial equity and antiracism in the context of higher education, distinguishing between multicultural teaching and antiracist pedagogy;
- Engage in self-reflection of one's social positionality;
- Analyze the role of racism in shaping higher education (broadly), your discipline/field, and teaching;
- Engage in a syllabus audit, paying attention to essential elements for antiracist education;
- Write/edit course learning objectives to include antiracism;
- Expand their repertoire of inclusive and antiracist classroom practices;
- Connect their classroom work with larger antiracist organizing efforts to transform higher education; and
- Begin to unpack what the long-term strategic work of dismantling institutional practices upholding systemic racism will require of higher education and its stakeholders.
The 2025 Virtual ARPAC Institute was sponsored by the Antiracism Institute for Teaching and Research at St. Cloud State University and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.