Beyond the Deficit: Relationships and Rigor: Syllabus Audit
Office/Remote Location
Description
Syllabus Audit guides faculty in creating syllabi that communicate equity, inclusivity, and high expectations.
Join us for our five-part workshop series that introduces asset-based teaching—a student-centered approach that recognizes learners’ cultural knowledge, lived experiences, and community strengths as powerful resources for learning. This framework challenges deficit-based narratives and emphasizes that fostering inclusion and connection in the classroom enhances, rather than diminishes, academic rigor. Adapted from an NSF-funded professional development program created by UNLV faculty for use across Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI's), this home-grown series—presented by UNLV faculty and the Teaching and Learning Commons—represents a unique opportunity to engage with a nationally significant model developed right here at UNLV.
Admission Information
Open to academic faculty, teaching grad students and teaching admin faculty. Please RSVP for one or all virtual sessions—participants who complete the full series will earn a digital badge of completion, while individual sessions may also be attended independently.