Applications Now Being Accepted for 2022-2023 Cohorts

About the Academy

• The Academy is a six-week diversity-equity-inclusion professional development program that will improve your improve your digital fluency with emerging technologies
• Humanizing is a model of equitable online teaching designed to close equity gaps through positive instructor-student relationships and culturally responsive teaching
• You will humanize one of your existing online courses by developing eight humanized online teaching elements
• You will become competent in warm demander pedagogy, a culturally responsive teaching approach
• The Academy is delivered in Canvas and is entirely asynchronous (no required Zoom sessions)
• It requires approximately 10-hours of week per week for six weeks
• Working with a lead facilitator and STEM peers from across California, you will independently complete assignments (in accordance with due dates) and engage in voice/video/written discussions with peers

Eligibility

STEM faculty from the project’s partner institutions are invite to apply. To be eligible, you must:

• Be actively employed as a full-time or part-time/lecturer faculty at a partner college
• Have taught one fully online course in their discipline at least one time from start to end
• Be teaching in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math discipline. Priority will be given to: Priority will be given to Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Math/Statistics, Computer Science, and Data Science
• Possess good working knowledge of Canvas
• Be open to recording oneself in video
• Be open to experimenting with several new digital technologies
• Possess the following foundational digital fluency skills: the ability to navigate between multiple browser windows/tabs, use new technologies independently by following digital instructions, troubleshoot basic technology issues independently, operate a smartphone; distinguish document, image, and video file format types from each other; download files from the web and upload files from a computer

Incentive

All faculty who successfully complete the Academy will receive:

• A digital badge issued by the California Community Colleges CVC/@ONE
• Seed partner faculty will receive an $1,800 grant-funded stipend (issued in the form of a check from FHDA)
• Grow partner faculty will receive an institutionally funded incentive (please check with your institution for more information)

2022-2023 Cohort Dates

Fall 2022 Cohort – apply by September 19, 2022

• October 10 – November 20, 2022

Spring 2023 Humanizing Online STEM Academy Cohorts – apply by October 31, 2022 
Faculty from Kern CCD, Cal Poly Humboldt, and Saddleback must complete the Academy in Spring 2023.

• February 6 – March 19, 2023
• March 6 – April 16, 2023
• May 22 – July 2, 2023

Partner Institutions

Grow Partners:

Cal Poly Humboldt, CSU Channel Islands, Foothill College, Kern Community College District, Modesto Junior College, Saddleback College, Southwestern College

Seed Partners:

Butte College, CSU Fresno, Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, Mesa College, Sierra College, Ventura College

Funded by the California Education Learning Lab