We are delighted to (virtually) welcome Anne Charity Hudley, who is a Professor and the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A renowned sociolinguist and scholar of pedagogy, she has been at the helm of extensive, constant, hands-on work that identifies and dismantles the barriers to success in academic environments that disproportionately affect those from racialized/marginalized/low-income backgrounds. Her talk, "A roadmap for inclusion in linguistics," will probe the projects that the Department of Linguistics at UCSB has undertaken to counter the systemic forces that turn away marginalized populations at every level of mainstream education. The talk will be taking place online via Zoom on Friday, October 9, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, with a reception to follow.
The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the highest ranked and highest resourced Minority Serving Institution in the world. Considering the designation as both an honor and a call to action, the UCSB Linguistics Department is working to make significant changes to its faculty and student recruitment, its undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and its research and outreach focus. Charity Hudley will focus on methods and models used to engage people in inclusion in linguistics from secondary school through emeritus status, and she will also share challenges that our department has met along the way with a focus on interdepartmental, institutional, and disiplinary concerns. She will focus on three programs that UCSB Linguistics has developed in recent years: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS), UCSB-HBCU Scholars in Linguistics, and the Sneak Peek student recruitment event.
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