Faculties and Departments
- What steps are taken to ensure that strategies for recruiting students aim to appeal to a wide range of individuals and that `non-traditional' students are encouraged to apply?
- How accessible to a diverse range of potential students are Web pages and faculty handbooks containing information about degrees and courses?
- How might degree structures be modified to allow students more choice through access to a wide range of electives or inter-disciplinary degrees?
- Is course content biased in any way towards a particular cultural and/or socio-economic group?
- Do staff provide a range of role models, reflecting the diversity in the community and UWA student population?
- Does the scheduling of staff office hours prevent some students from getting the assistance they need from teaching staff?
- Are attrition rates high for particular groups? Why is this the case?
- What does the faculty or department do to encourage and reward teaching and administrative practices that respond to the diversity of the student population?
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Teachers
- To what extent do you teach the way you were taught or the way you preferred to learn as a student? How might this affect your students?
- What do you know about the backgrounds and interests of your students? What assumptions do you make about students, and how might this affect their learning?
- Are any of the examples, case studies, problems, essay topics, etc. you use difficult for some students to relate to or understand?
- Do the recommended textbooks exclude certain readers? Do authors on reading lists represent both sexes, different cultural groups and different perspectives?
- Do you know if your students have a disability? What has been done or could be done to accommodate their needs?
- How do you enable all students have a voice in your classes or the opportunity to clarify what they are learning?
- How do you ensure that certain students are not excluded by other students in, for example, group activities or group assignments?
- Are there students that you avoid because of your own discomfort with difference?
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