College of Education
COE Extended Studies
Upcoming Conferences 2009
The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
June 3-9, 2009
The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum supports educators across the nation as they create or revise courses and workshops to integrate race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality into their work. The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the White Privilege Conference.
The Knapsack Institute provides educators (University and high school, as well as social justice activists) with a framework for teaching about the matrix of privilege and oppression. The Institute welcomes all faculty! Alumni include faculty, teachers, trainers and educators at many levels, from a wide range of disciplines. Academic undergraduate and graduate level credit and CEUs available.
The Knapsack Institute:
*Is a forum for sharing ideas and strategies
*Emphasizes pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity
*Provides professional growth and development
*Provides mentoring and leadership development
*Provides hands-on activities for the classroom
*Provides strategies for dealing with resistance to these topics in the classroom
*Provides suggestions for creating institutional change on your campus
*Provides resources and networking opportunities to support on-going change
>> Click here for more information about The Knapsack Institute
http://www.uccs.edu/~knapsack
White Privilege Conference
April 1-4, 2009
>> Click here to visit UCCS's site on White Privilege
www.uccs.edu/wpc
Contact Us
Extended Studies Programs
Departmental office is located in Columbine Hall 4014.
Phone: (719) 262-4134 Fax: (719) 262-3915
Carla Rupprecht
Phone: (719) 262-4134 email: crupprec@uccs.edu
Cindy Brown
Phone: (719) 262-4344 email: cbrown@uccs.edu