Welcome to Back to the Bay 2023

BACK to the BAY 2023

Session 1:   9:00 - 9:50 am

Indigenous Acknowledgement in Practice

Attendees will learn to embody our responsibilities to Indigenous populations as Cal State East Bay staff and faculty. Panelists will share experiences working in collaboration with tribes on topics including institutional land acknowledgement, research, consultation and outreach, and disciplinary reflexivity. Presenters: Albert Gonzalez and Claire Valderama-Wallace, Room 341

Workshop on Course Accessibility & AI Detection Tools

In this session, facilitators will demonstrate various tools that improve course accessibility and help align your course with Universal by Design (UDL) principles. Participants will get an in-depth look at the Ally Accessibility Report tool and the built-in Canvas Accessibility Checker. Participants will also learn to use tools like Microsoft Word Accessibility Checker, Grackle Doc, as well as Turnitin Draft Coach and the new Turnitin AI Preview, which helps detect AI technology used in assignment submissions. Presenters: Serena Kohgadai, Kara Finch, Manpreet Chatha, Room 301

The Peer-to-Peer Anti-Racist Liberatory Pedagogy Academy

This panel discussion reports on the evolving components of the peer-to-peer Anti-Racist Liberatory Pedagogy Academy first piloted in July 2021 and now in its third iteration, summarizing the contents of the program and experiences of the facilitators and participants. Presenters: Michael Lee, Eve Higby, Stephanie Zaleski, Ana Almeida, Michael Rowley, Alicia Swartz, Room 338

Bay Advisor Early Alerts & Student Success

Faculty will take a deep dive into the Early Alert and Case assignment process within Bay Advisor. They will be given updates on how we are integrating a scaled approach and including students more in the knowledge of their academic record. Presenter: Bill Irwin, Room 342

Embedded Peer Academic Support: SCAA Supplemental Instruction and STEM LAB Learning Assistants

We will discuss academic support programs in the SCAA and STEM LAB, shared goals and distinct elements, and how embedded course Learning Assistants and Supplemental Instruction Leaders work with faculty to impact student engagement and reduce equity gaps in gateway courses. Presenters: Michele de Coteau, Rachel Brunson, Room 306

Session 2:   10:00 - 10:50 am

Introduction to Disability Justice Work at CSUEB

The members of the CSUEB Disability Justice Working Group will collaborate on an interactive proposal exploring issues in access, inclusion, justice, and equity for people with disabilities at CSUEB. We'll share our current projects and invite everyone attending to brainstorm new initiatives that are needed. Presenters: Dal-Hyun Moon and Sara McDaniel, Room 338

Intro to Canvas

In this workshop, participants will learn to navigate the various features on their Canvas Navigation Menu including the settings and inbox features. They will learn how to locate their migrated Blackboard course and copy it to a new shell as well as how to add new content to a course.

Facilitated by: Cheryl Saelee (Sr. eLearning Specialist), Room 306

Interdisciplinary Research Networking Event

Meet other faculty interested in potential collaboration on interdisciplinary research problems. The majority of the session will be a speed networking activity, followed by a brainstorming discussion on strategies to actualize and fund interdisciplinary research (and related instructional) activities. Presenters: Jessica Santone and Chandra Khan, Room 341

Student Victimization and Faculty Responses: What You Should Know

College students are at an elevated risk for victimization. University staff and faculty frequently receive disclosures of victimization from students. In this session, we will cover the resources available to faculty after a student discloses a victimization, the various steps that faculty can take to provide aid to students, and explain the importance of being a primary disclosee. Presenter: Christopher Palmore, Room 342

Writing--Intensive Courses: The Teaching of Writing to Expand Disciplinary Knowledge

In this interactive session, we will provide strategies for integrating writing-intensive learning outcomes into your curriculum in ways that are meaningful for WI courses. Bring your syllabus and assignment drafts or questions you have about developing a writing-intensive course. Presenters: Katie Bramlett, Michelle St. George, Sara Schupack, Sarah Nielsen, Room 301

Session 3:   Keynote Address

University Union MPRA 

11:00 - 11:50 am

Edgar Chávez Executive Director 

Hayward Promise Neighborhood

Edgar Chávez is a proud grandson of farmworkers, an immigrant, and a first-generation college graduate. Edgar is the Executive Director of Hayward Promise Neighborhoods (HPN) at Cal State East Bay (CSUEB), a $30 million U.S. Department of Education-funded cradle-to-career collaborative addressing child poverty and community wellness in his hometown of Hayward, California. For the last 15 years, Edgar has led college and career initiatives for first-generation and immigrant students at K-12 and postsecondary institutions across San Francisco Bay Area communities, including East Palo Alto and East San José. He collaborates with CSUEB faculty as a Co-Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the Climate Empowerment Learning Initiative (CELI), supporting Hayward teachers to engage in cross-disciplinary climate justice education. Edgar also serves on various steering committees, including California Promise Neighborhood Network, California Cradle to Career Coalition, ALL In Alameda County, and Northern California College Promise Coalition.

Edgar earned a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University and an Ed.M. in Prevention Science and Practice from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Lunch

University Union MPR Bayview Room

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Session 4   1:00 - 1:50 pm

Authentic belonging and collegiality: a working conversation on mentoring

Presenters: Faculty Diversity Fellows - Alina Engelman, Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Albert Gonzalez, Marlin Halim, Tammie Mosley, Claire Valderama-Wallace, Room 338

Your California Faculty Association: What's Up with Contract Bargaining 

The panel will highlight and discuss the background specifics, crucial issues, and pending stakes for bargaining in CFA's current contract re-opener. Presenters: Jeff Newcomb, Jennifer Eagan, Amara Miller, Room 301

Sociology's COVID and Post-COVID Student Surveys: What Are the Students Saying?

The Sociology Department has conducted surveys of students both during COVID and after; looking at the results may help the University shape our services and offerings now and in the future. Presenters: Carl Stempel, Morgan Sanchez, Linda Dobb, Michael Stanton, Ana Almeida, Tyona Harvey

Room 342

Don't They Know This Already? Best Practices for Teaching Information Literacy

Curious about Information Literacy? Flummoxed by the gaps in your students' knowledge around topic scoping and development, literature searching, and citing? Teaching a course with a required IL component and not sure where to start? Wondering how to incorporate IL more seamlessly into your disciplinary content? Join us for a discussion of tips, tricks, and best practices for designing IL assignments and assessments that fit your course outcomes! Presenter: Gr Keer, Room 306

Session 5   2:00 - 2:50 pm

Alternative Crisis Response: What, Why and How?

This session will cover what alternative crisis response options include, why they are important and cost effective, and how we can help develop such alternatives at CSUEB to better serve our campus community. Come learn and dream with us! Presenters: Amara Miller, Kim Geron, Kate Pham, Room 338

Senate 101: shared governance for everyone, everywhere, all at once

Does the Academic Senate seem like a multiverse of timelines, histories, and potential futures? Have you ever wondered how it all works and how you can get in on the action? Presenters: Christina Chin-Newman, Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Room 341

What do we want our students to know and how do we know they know it?

Come hear from faculty in Math, Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Statistics about their work implementing and collaborating on equitable/inclusive/active/innovative classroom assessment strategies and assignment design. We will also present ideas for how to build momentum for educating and propagating these strategies and approaches through engaging faculty across the college in thinking more creatively about classroom assessment and its role in ensuring equitable outcomes. Presenters: Julie Glass, Andrea Arauza Rivera, Simon Sisneros-Thiry, Ana Almeida, Wendy Rummerfield, Erica Baranski, Room 301

Helping Students in Distress

Now more than ever before, students are experiencing a high level of stress and anxiety and may be struggling to get their basic needs met. Any staff, faculty, or student may encounter a student who is in need of support. We want our entire community to feel equipped to look out for one another, provide empathetic connections, and to bridge students to support resources whenever needed. In this session, participants will learn strategies to engage students in distress, and will also learn how to refer students effectively to student support programs for basic needs, mental health, and sexual violence resources. Presenters: Shauna Olson Hong, Counseling Services; Jennifer Luna, Student Wellbeing; Michelle Luqueno-Diaz, Campus Advocate, Room 342

Support in the CORE: Library and Tutoring Services for Students and Faculty

Join us for a discussion and overview of library services and resources, with tips on how to help your students make the most of the reference and research consultation services, textbook collection, technology to check out, and SCAA tutoring services. Presenters: Lee Adams

Rachel Brunson, Daisy Muralles, John Wenzler, Room 306

Session 6   3:00 - 3:50 pm

Title IX and Campus Resources

This session will provide a brief overview of the following information: Title IX, What are the prohibited conducts listed in the CSU Nondiscrimination policy, Reporting obligations, and Reporting Options, Where to Report and website, Confidential and Non Confidential resources that are available, and supportive measures.

Presenters: Terri LaBeaux and Michelle Lequeno Diaz, Room 341

How do we know they know?

This session will engage participants in an overview of the importance of metacognition strategies for both course instructors and students. The session will be interactive as the presenters demonstrate some common pedagogical strategies used to engage students in thinking about their learning and how instructors can facilitate the process.

Presenters: Michele Korb and Shadi Roshandel, Room 342

Going Gradeless in Statistics, Kinesiology, and Chemistry

In this session, we will introduce the practice of ungrading and share our experiences, including specific examples of practices we implemented in our courses. Afterward, we will reflect and brainstorm ways to introduce ungrading in your classroom in groups. Presenters: Wendy Rummerfield, Michael Rowley, Stephanie Zaleski, Room 301

Ask Us Anything: Accessibility Services

Always wondered how students are approved for accommodations, or whether accommodations are requirements or recommendations? Then join us for this discussion. No presentations, no lectures, just AS Staff in the hot seat, ready to answer any question you have. Presenter: Rochelle Thompson, Room 338

Update on Sustainability Programs at Cal State East Bay

This session provides an update on sustainability at Cal State East Bay, including: The sustainability minor, sustainability overlay courses, the new Sustainability Leaders Program which matches faculty and organizations with student interns, our new Sustainability Manager, the STARS report, AASHE training opportunities, and more. Presenter: Sharon Radcliff, Room 306