Starting From Scratch: A White Woman's Journey to Build a Teaching Center Rooted in Adult Learning and Feminist Theories at an HBCU

ABSTRACT This autobiographical article recounts a White woman's efforts to establish a center for teaching and learning (CTL) in a large HBCU in the southern part of the United States. She describes the ways in which tenets of critical feminism, feminist pedagogies, and adult learning and development informed her approach to faculty development. She explores her own complicity with racism and the ways that she her experience with Black culture, identities and history have profoundly impacted her view of the world.