As educators, we want our students to survive and thrive, and have the best university experience they can have. I know faculty and instructors try to help any way we can—it seems, though, that the labor of care falls more on contingent faculty, graduate students, and educators with marginalized identities. Sometimes our strategy is to… Read more »
Using Social Media Resources for Mental Health
In my previous blog, I talked about how during this Covid-19 pandemic, and as we have come back to campus, staff, students, and educators alike have had to handle increased pressures, stress, and diminishing mental health. (Can anyone else hear Luisa Madrigal’s “Surface Pressure” from Encanto in their head right now?) “Pressure like a drip,… Read more »
A Culture of Care and Healing in Education
This post is from Daniela Gutierrez Lopez, the CITL’s DEIJ Graduate Assistant. See below for Daniela’s bio. Does anyone else feel like we’ve been stuck going around a revolving door between online and in-person instruction? Sometimes it spins faster, sometimes slower, sometimes we’re in the space by ourselves and sometimes more people jump in, cramming… Read more »