This shared interest group (SIG) invites both adjunct faculty and staff members to explore IDE in our workplaces. We will examine IDE within the context of our jobs or classrooms. We select a different reading each month as a conversation tool and then gather to discuss, learn and possibly collaborate. Join us for sessions according to your interests and availability. We intend this to be informal and participant driven.

April Meeting Prompt

The prompt for the April meeting is inspired by Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity (Norris, 2024). From the publisher:

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.

The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.

The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. Even at just six words, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch, revealing, fear, pain, triumph, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege, enjoy it, earned it. Lady, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient.

Ponder your six words and bring them to the SIG meeting!

Shared Interest Group: Adjunct/Staff IDE Working Group