Pedagogical Inquiry Grants Support Cross-Campus Collaboration
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Feature by: Mary Raschko, Associate Dean for Faculty Development
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The Center for Teaching and Learning invites applications for Summer and Fall 2024 Pedagogical Inquiry Grants (PIGs) to support innovations in teaching and learning. Grants can support individual faculty work or collaborations among faculty and staff colleagues. Applications are due Friday, April 5.
One spring 2024 project, “Genealogies of Student Activism at Whitman,” provides a model example of the wide-reaching collaboration enabled by the grants. Inspired by a 2020 event with Black alumni, a team is exploring histories of activism at Whitman College related to diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism. During the 2020 panel discussion, alumni of different generations said they felt like the first to fight for a better experience for Black students. According to PIG project co-leads Kynde Kiefel and Libby Miller, the panel made clear that the history of activism at Whitman is strong; what we lack are visible genealogies that help students build upon the work of their predecessors, gain a sense of what has changed, or failed to change and feel the support of interconnected generations.
The PIG-sponsored collaboration brings together faculty from four departments with archives and collections specialists as well as colleagues with expertise related to disability- and Indigenous-rights movements. Participants include:
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- Shampa Biswas (Politics)
- Peter de Grasse (Dance)
- River Freemont (Archives)
- Jeanine Gordon (Native American Outreach)
- Kynde Kiefel (Sheehan Gallery)
- Camilo Lund-Montaño (History)
- Richard Middleton-Kaplan (Academic Resource Center)
- Libby Miller (Maxey Museum, Art History)
- Andrew Somoskey (Sheehan Gallery)
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The collaboration’s main outcome will be a Fall 2025 campus exhibition that draws on archival material to excavate stories of student activism and places this material in conversation with artwork from Whitman alumni and others. In addition to being incorporated in courses, the exhibition will provide an important learning space for the full Whitman community to grapple with, be inspired by and act on our history.
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Nikki Brueggeman To Serve in Advisory Role on LGBTQ+ Survey
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Assistant Director of Career Readiness and Employer Engagement Nikki Brueggeman has been selected as an advisory panel member for Washington’s first comprehensive LGBTQ+ survey. She will be working closely with researchers from Washington State University and leaders from across the state to give input on the survey’s content and connect with Washington LGBTQ+ communities.
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Shampa Biswas Joins Disarmament Educational Panel
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Judge & Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science and Professor of Politics Shampa Biswas recently joined a panel of experts invited to offer a webinar on gender and nuclear weapons for an educational program run by the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs. The program involves 100 participants between the ages of 18–29 from 60 different countries, and its purpose is “equipping the leaders of the future with the knowledge, skills, and network to join global efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
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Campus Awards Nomination Form Closes Tomorrow
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The new consolidated nomination form, created to handle many of the annual campus awards for students, faculty and staff, will soon close for the current award cycle. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, March 8. If you are the leader of an award committee and would like to have your award added to this form for a future awards cycle, please email awards@whitman.edu.
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Whitman Orchestra Collaborative Concert Tomorrow
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The Whitman College Orchestra will perform together with the Carthage College Orchestra for a winter concert on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in Chism Recital Hall in the Hall of Music. They will perform Symphony No. 8 in G major (1889) by Antonín Dvořák and Primera Suite Argentina (1923) by Alberto Williams. The event is free and open to the public.
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The @ourwhitman social media account is a great way to see the Whitman College experience through student perspectives. This week, pre-med, BBMB (Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology) major Marika Cartier ’26 is sharing snippets from her first two years at Whitman, including Environmental Studies field trips (left) and Outdoor Program adventures (right).
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Reid Campus Center, Entrance
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Welty Student Health Center (RSVP)
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom
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