Group 5 – Curricular Culture and Pedagogical Structures

Each of the six Dismantling Systemic Racism Work Groups are addressing systemic anti-Black racism on the UCI campus. The effort is a grassroots effort to cultivate solutions from faculty, staff, students and the community.

The Curricular Culture and Pedagogical Structures Work Group will begin by addressing the questions below.

• What are the structural elements and cultural assumptions inherent in our university undergraduate education curricular structures that perpetuate anti-Black racism?
• How does the tension between the university’s perceived role as an enforcer of academic standards and its role as an educational entity with the goal of enriching student’s lives and supporting them in achieving their highest potential result in these structures?
• How do traditional narrow definitions of excellence impact how students are selected and create barriers to many students and prevent them from achieving at their highest potential?
• How can we transform curricular structures and assumptions to work towards positive change?

Sherridan Aparicio
Joshua Arimond
Kelsey Brown
Tatiana Bryant
Larisa Castillo
Morgan Coburn
Pieter Derdeyn
Natalie DiProspero
Maria Sophia Donaire
Keenan Do
Carolyn Downey
Adeli Duron
Kasey Edwards
Feyintoluwa Ekisola
John Fernandez
Ebony Gammon
Reginald Gardner

Louis Gill
Andrea Gonzalez
Marika Gould
Navneet Hakhu
Brandon Haskey-Valerius
Tyler Heiss
Prince Heto
Elizabeth Hubbard
Brandon Kincaid
Ryan Lim
Theresa Loveless
Cecelia Lynch
Desiree Macchia
Adam Marks
Gopi Meenakshisundaram
Emily Miyoshi
Alberto Morales

Ken Murphy
Lisa Naugle
Nellie Nelson
Deyanira Nevarez Martinez
Caroline Nguyen
Carl Norlen
Primal Pappachan
Elizabeth Peña
Sarah Peterson
Tara Rodman
Alisson Rowland
Sarah Royer
Nina Scolnik
Kate Simon
Shauna Simon
Kelli Sharp
Anika Tasnim
Cheryl Wisseh