Presenters: Lindsay Onufer, M.Edand Lizette Muñoz Rojas, Ph.D

Teaching in new ways, supporting students, and juggling career and family obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the epidemic of faculty burnout. Faculty, particularly minoritized faculty, face additional challenges because the pandemic has exacerbated existing inequities. Instructors need support beyond self-care as they continue to contend with the effects of the pandemic. Expanding on Keeling’s (2014) call for higher education to adopt an ethic of care, or shared institutional responsibility for students’ overall wellbeing, participants will explore how an ethic of care can extend to all university members. Reflecting on their own experiences at Pitt, participants will consider how to transform faculty and staff support and begin to collaboratively strategize ways to cultivate a model of community care in their own departments. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Compare self-care and community care approaches.
• Explain the need for and advantages of adopting a framework of community care.
• Work with colleagues to strategize how to begin establishing a framework of community care in their departments.

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If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at diversity@pitt.edu by July 21

This workshop is a part of the 2021 Diversity Forum.