Pre-Conference Workshop: Decolonizing What? Limits and Opportunities for Developing Equitable Syllabi in Computer Science and Engineering Education

This research-to-practice pre-conference workshop brings insights and approaches to equitable syllabus development to college-level instructors. The organizers synthesize their experiences and research on the structures, culture, and equity initiatives of US engineering education. The first half of the workshop presents participants with frameworks for thinking about equitable engineering syllabi and a technique for actualizing those values (i.e., the organizers' syllabus toolkit). In the second half, participants apply and reflect upon their insights and techniques with a sample syllabus and then participants' own instructional materials. Participants will leave the two-and-a-half-hour workshop with skills and methods for evaluating their syllabi in addition to concrete revisions of their own materials.