ETUDE at Berklee

Open to all Berklee Faculty and Staff. Join us for a conversation…we will be reading an excerpt from Paisley Rekdal’s book Appropriate and listening to a piece of music to guide the discussion. This online discussion can count for Fall 2022 Equity Partners credit. Space is limited to 15, so sign up today at tinyurl.com/ETUDEEvents Tuesday, October 11 11am -12:30pm EST/5pm - 6:30pm CET

It isn't too late to register for Tuesday's Equity Partners Foundations Online Session! Open to all Berklee faculty and staff (including BCB, Valencia, NYC). Visit tinyurl.com/EPFall2022 to register. This is one of two chances for the Fall semester to initiate your Equity Partners participation!

Now’s the time! Take the Equity Partners Foundations Session online on Thursday June 23rd in order to kickstart your involvement in the Equity Partners program. Attendance is capped at 12. Open to all and Faculty and Staff! If you take the summer session you are good to go to start engaging with other events in the fall. Questions? ETUDE at Berklee dot edu. [ID: brown background and equity partners logo, Text reads: Foundations online June 23 10-12p ET and 4-6pm CET]
tinyurl.com/EPFoundationsSummer

Ramadan begins tonight! Please help to create inclusive spaces by remembering that your students may be fasting and praying during late/early hours for the month. Offer understanding and create space, but please do not assume or ask anyone to disclose their own religious observance and beliefs. [ID:dark blue-grey background with stylized hanging lanterns (fanous) in pink. Text reads: Ramadan 2022 April 2 - May 2 Practicing students and colleagues are likely to be fasting from dawn to dusk—this often means no food and no water. They may also be praying past midnight and rising early to eat and pray. ]

Today—Monday 2/28. We have a few spaces left if you haven’t yet entered the Equity Partners program and are available to be on video and interactive from 1-3pm today, eastern.

Are you a current or aspiring Berklee Faculty/Staff Equity Partner? The program now requires an ongoing commitment of engagement with one activity/workshop per semester! Spring 2022 is a transitional semester, so if you are a current Equity Partner, please know you will remain listed as such for the semester and will be receiving a letter with details. Please read about the changes at tinyurl.com/EtudeEP and look for programming announcements in this week’s Faculty Development News as well as in this space!

Are you interested in applying to be an ETUDE Scholar? We are so happy to have a few openings available again! Apply by this Wednesday to join a team of faculty members who are actively engaged in various projects and continued learning about diversity and inclusion in teaching. Terms generally run for three years. We seek to keep our cohort of scholars diverse and representative of as many populations as possible, so we'd love to hear about your interests and experience! We are looking for self-motivated faculty who are eager to engage in reading groups, workshop facilitation, ongoing training, and more! [ID: multi-color background with ETUDE favicon in center. Text reads: Join Us in large font above favicon, and Applications due this Wednesday Dec. 1 below in smaller white font.] https://college.berklee.edu/faculty-development/etude

It isn’t too late to sign up for our last virtual Reading & Film Circle session this semester! Join us, Monday Nov 22, from 11-12:30pm ET, in discussing an excerpt from Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated. Open to all Berklee faculty and staff but capped at 15!! tinyurl.com/ETUDEReadsF21 [ID: Red ETUDE favicon on black background with image of cover of Westover’s book. Header is Lived Experiences of Violence and Poverty]

Open to all Berklee Faculty and Staff: Our Fall 2021 Virtual Reading and Film Circle. Our theme this semester is Lived Experiences. For more information and to sign up, please visit https://tinyurl.com/ETUDEReadsF21 (sessions are on Zoom and are capped at 15)

BCM and BCB faculty! Please join our breakout session "Designing Inclusivity" at Berklee's Opening Day, September 3, 11:15am - 12:30pm! Pre-Registration is required. We will be discussing two chapters from What Inclusive Instructors Do (Stylus 2021)--available via the Berklee Library. You are also invited to bring a
paper syllabus for a Spring 2022 class (or Fall 2021 if you are last-minute!) for a syllabus mini-workshop! Capacity is limited, so please register today! A full description can be found at https://college.berklee.edu/faculty-development/forms/opening-day-2021-community-read-and-workshop-pre-registration

Our summer Equity Partners Foundations Session is already at capacity (which is a good thing!). Fear not, we will have several opportunities in the Fall semester, so watch our Insta/FB, F&S News and Faculty Development news! We are thrilled to have such interest in participation!

BERKLEE FACULTY!! Accessibility Resources for Students and the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are collaborating to develop for Berklee faculty a collection of online resources, information, and training sessions related to equitable access for students with disabilities in higher education. Please take a moment to complete the brief survey by April 30!
https://college.berklee.edu/faculty-development/announcements/faculty-training-survey

Faculty Training Survey | Berklee Accessibility Resources for Students and the Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are collaborating to develop for Berklee faculty a collection of online resources, information, and training sessions related to equitable access for students with disabilities in higher education. Please take a....

This week! Tomorrow (Tuesday at 2pm), Wednesday at 9:30am EDT, and Thursday at 1pm. Now you can just drop by to chat with other faculty and staff who are committed to creating spaces of belonging and learning how to create truly diverse and equitable experiences for students! http://tinyurl.com/APRILConvos Open to any Berklee/BoCo/Valencia/NYC/Online faculty and staff!

Last chance for Spring 2021! And now, you can just "drop on by"! Tuesday, April 6, 2 - 3pm EDT; Wednesday, April 7, 9:30 - 10:30am, Thursday, April 8 1-2pm EDT. Pre-register for a calendar invite or just drop in on Zoom (with your Berklee email only) at tinyurl.com/APRILConvos Come chat informally with other faculty members about what has and hasn't worked this semester and other issues you might be facing in teaching spaces that intersect with diversity and equity.

Last chance for Spring 2021! And now, you can just "drop on by"! Tuesday, April 6, 2 - 3pm EDT; Wednesday, April 7, 9:30 - 10:30am, Thursday, April 8 1-2pm EDT. Pre-register for a calendar invite or just drop in on Zoom (with your Berklee email only) at tinyurl.com/APRILConvos Come chat informally with other faculty members about what has and hasn't worked this semester and other issues you might be facing in teaching spaces that intersect with diversity and equity.

Today we welcomed 9 new Berklee faculty and staff members into ETUDE's Equity Partners Program! We have a few spaces left for our final Foundations Session of the Spring Semester on Thursday, April 22nd! Sign up at tinyurl.com/EPSpring2021

It is Virtual Conversation Table week for March! Come join your Berklee faculty colleagues and share how things are going with your DEI work in your teaching! Bring your questions, your challenges, and your successes! It isn't too late to sign up for tomorrow (Tuesday March 9, 2-3pm EST; Wednesday March 10 (9:30 - 10:30am EST), and Thursday, March 11, 1pm -2pm EST. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwTFJrqnbtS7TUmxE6GB7bap0jHF6ZPO8h0eSHcTMwBQrWlg/viewform

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Did you know there is a Google calendar available that consolidates all the DEI opportunities for faculty & staff offered by ETUDE Scholars, The Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, HR, and more? Curated by ETUDE, we do our best to keep it up to date as information is available. You can subscribe to it via your Berklee email and add it to your own calendar. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YmVya2xlZS5lZHVfNjkydXJjaW1udWY5MHZyZ2xhYWEzdnFsNmtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

Are you a Berklee faculty or staff member who wants to pledge more active solidarity and intentional integration of diversity, equity, and belonging in your work and interactions with students? Join the over 100 faculty and staff members who are already Equity Partners. The EP Foundations Session is a two-hour online workshop and co-learning space that explores intersectional concepts of privilege, discusses vocabulary and language, and offers an opportunity to learn and share from your colleagues. It is an open and welcoming space for anyone who wants to commit to principles of social justice and learn how empathy can enhance our ability to honor multiple identities and lived experiences. The Equity Partners program is an initiative of ETUDE and the Office of Faculty Development, and is not a training program, nor linked officially to the Equity Team or the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. For more information please visit: https://college.berklee.edu/faculty-development/announcements/register-for-equity-partners-foundations

Tuesday, Feb. 16th is the deadline to sign up for the Feb.22nd reading circle. Although we are asking that you only pick one of the three, we will be reaching out if there is space available in the others. Read more here (Berklee sign-in required): https://college.berklee.edu/faculty-development/announcements/introducing-the-etude-reading-film-circle

Don't forget that tomorrow is our first Virtual Conversation Table for Berklee faculty! How have these first two weeks of the semester been going? Do you have specific ideas or concerns regarding social justice, diversity, equity, and/or inclusion, that you'd like to chat with your colleagues about? Sign up for one of our virtual conversation tables this week ! tinyurl.com/hkw3m1dy

Current Events and the Classroom Virtual Conversation Tables (February 2021) | Berklee You are invited to join ETUDE Faculty Scholars for a new virtual conversation series on Current Events and the Classroom. This will be an opportunity to informally gather with your teaching colleagues to discuss and share difficult situations and success stories that you may have encountered as curr...

Join us next week for one of our February Virtual Conversation Tables. This is a chance for Berklee faculty to gather informally to discuss the how current events are intersecting and operating within their classrooms and teaching spaces. Space is limited to 15 people per session, so please sign up for only one. RSVP by the day before. https://forms.gle/b7bvFas32hMSbEMf8

We hope to be sharing our workshop, conversation table, and reading group dates soon! In the meantime, please follow the ETUDE D&I calendar for Staff and Faculty, available only for the Berklee.edu domain. This consolidates the various D&I events on campus so you can see them altogether! https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YmVya2xlZS5lZHVfNjkydXJjaW1udWY5MHZyZ2xhYWEzdnFsNmtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

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