%0 Presentation %D 2017 %T Faculty Community of Practice in Equity and Privilege %A , %A Burgess, Wilella %U http://www.aacu.org/sites/default/files/files/dlss17/DLSS%202017%20Final%20Program.pdf %8 March %X Faculty Community of Practice in Equity and Privilege Diversity efforts have largely focused on assimilating students from under-represented groups into the existing educational environments. Session facilitators posit that this environment, even in supposedly culture-neutral STEM disciplines, includes many cultural biases making the learning environment more accessible to the majority culture – some explicit, but many implicit. The facilitators have established a multi-disciplinary community of practice to help each other recognize and address such issues within their own classrooms. The facilitators will discuss how this group was formed, what is being accomplished, and how to form such a network to address issues within one’s own classroom. The session will conclude by illustrating some of the tools used to uncover biases and move towards honoring commitment to diversity. Participants will examine a model of a grass-roots faculty reflection on privilege and its impact on students, uncover homogeneity in content and presentation in their syllabi, and discover ways to remedy it and identify challenges in changing deep-rooted thinking habits. %+ Evaluation And Learning Research Center at Purdue University