2025 – Equitable Teaching

2025

Breaking the Language Barrier

By Annissa KebedeMarch 18, 2025 Overview Navigating college is challenging enough, but for first-generation and international students, academic language can feel like a unfamiliar code-making everyday tasks like reading a syllabus or understanding a lecture overwhelming. These barriers impact more than comprehension; they affect students’ confidence, engagement, and overall academic success. Research shows that clarifying […]

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Stories of Culturally Responsive Teaching from Frontline Instructors

This resource guide provides practical ways for instructors to get to know students as individuals, design inclusive course content and material, allow multiple ways to demonstrate learning, and integrate a variety of student engagement techniques (SETs).

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