We strive to foster inclusive and welcoming programming and are focused on recruiting a diverse range of participants and instructors, particularly underrepresented minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities.
We strive to foster inclusive and welcoming programming and are focused on recruiting a diverse range of participants and instructors, particularly underrepresented minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities.
Our focus as a Node has been to center inclusive teaching methods and recruitment strategies in our programming. Our newly launched online, asynchronous “train the trainer” course focuses on disrupting implicit bias, attracting diverse teams, creating an inclusive learning environment, delivering “purposefully direct” feedback to teams, and using a set of rubrics to objectively assess a team’s performance in the regional course, and their potential fit with I-Corps Teams requirements.
The material in this training course was developed with funding from a 2019 Node Supplement Award from NSF, and is delivered through the same online learning platform that instructors use with their regional course students. New instructors are required to observe a virtual regional course led by experienced instructors and debrief with the instructors after each session. After completing the training course and observation, new instructors are paired with an experienced instructor to lead their first regional course.