Workshops and Events


The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence is dedicated to cultivating a culture of lifelong learning, faculty development, and integrative teaching. As part of this effort, the CFDE provides workshop opportunities and events that enable faculty members to improve teaching and pedagogy approaches.

Linguistic Justice & the #BlackLanguageSyllabus

A Talk & Workshop with Dr. April Baker-Bell

Thursday, February 15, 2024
Talk: Linguistic Justice Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

Hybrid, 11am-12:30pm

In this talk, Dr. April Baker-Bell will discuss how anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy get normalized in teacher attitudes, curriculum and instruction, pedagogical approaches, disciplinary discourses, and research, and she will discuss the impact these decisions have on Black students’ language education and their linguistic, racial, and intellectual identities. Dr. Baker-Bell will introduce a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically places Black Language at the center to critically interrogate white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.  

Workshop: Linguistic Justice: From Theory to Praxis

In person, 1:30-3:00pm

Deepen your Linguistic Justice practice with an interactive session that supports participants in thinking about how to integrate the ideas from Linguistic Justice into their curriculum and instruction. This guided workshop will include activity-based exercises, such as reflection/preflection activities, syllabus design, and strategies for teaching. Workshops come with a digital workbook that participants can download to continue to learn from.

Space is limited; participants will receive a copy of Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

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Register by February 12, 2024. Location details & Zoom link will be shared with registrants.  

Brought to you by The Emory Writing Program & Writing Across Emory. Supported by a Hightower Fund grant with co-sponsorship from the CFDE, Linguistics, ILA, African American Studies.

Difficult Conversations

Wednesday, February 21, 2024
3:00-4:30pm on Zoom

As our campus becomes more demographically diverse, we will be met with more opportunities to work and learn across difference. During socially and politically tumultuous times conflicts may arise in our classrooms. In this session we will discuss the nature of conflict, suggest some strategies to more effectively communicate across difference, and work through and discuss scenarios to practice navigating difficult conversations. 

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Please let us know if you need accommodations in order to participate in this workshop. Please provide us with as much information as possible so that we find ways to make our workshop format, meeting room, and/or materials support your needs as much as possible.

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Microaggressions and Microinterventions

Monday, March 4, 2024
1:00-2:30pm (in person; open to Oxford faculty only)

In this session we will define the following terms: microaggression, microvalidation, and microaffirmation, discuss the research and theories behind the terms, and suggest strategies for interrupting microaggressions. 

Public Talk by Ashley Holmes 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 

A Public Talk and Workshop based on Dr. Holmes’s new book, Learning on Location: Place Based Approaches for Diverse Learners in Higher Education. 

How Did the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision Impact Admissions at Emory?

Friday, April 26, 2024
2:00-3:30pm
Presentation Room, Oxford Road Building (1390 Oxford Rd.)


In June 2023, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down affirmative action programs in college admissions. In this session, we will talk with Mindy Simon, associate general counsel; John Latting, associate vice provost and dean of admissions; and Ivone Foisy, senior director of admissions, Rollins School of Public Health, about how the university changed their approach to admissions in response to the decision, and what impact, if any, this decision had on admissions at Emory.