I've started working on planning for my Fall course, and finding the work I did for the JET course so helpful and confidence-building.

- JET Participant

The Just & Equitable Teaching (JET) Program brings together educators from the CU Boulder community to provide professional development in social justice and equity in the classroom. The goal of this program is to equip instructors with evidenced-based resources and practices to co-create inclusive learning environments. Delivered through a social justice framework, participants engage in self-reflection, dialogue, workshops, mentoring, and equitable course design activities. As participants become critically conscious of what contributes to inequitable learning opportunities, they will be encouraged in developing their commitments to anti-discriminatory teaching strategies.听

The JET program is free and designed to be completed within one academic semester. This hybrid-style micro-credential includes both asynchronous Canvas coursework and synchronous group meetings. We are currently accepting applications to participate in the 厂辫谤颈苍驳听2025听肠辞丑辞谤迟. The聽cohort will run聽from January 27聽to May 02, 2025. Synchronous sessions (2聽meetings a month, either on Zoom or in-person) to de-brief on the readings will take place every alternate Thursdays from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.听Applications received on or before Dec 12, 2024 will be prioritized.听For questions, concerns or needs regarding digital accessibility, email rachana.bhave@colorado.edu.听

Apply for the JET Micro-credential

To complete the JET program, participants are expected to complete Canvas coursework, attend group meetings, and complete a final Capstone Project. Participants who complete the JET program will earn a issued via CU Boulder's micro-credential program.听

Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Engage regularly in self-examination and reflection of equitable teaching practices.
  • Analyze definitions of social justice and equity in the contexts of teaching and learning.
  • Explore the relationships between power, privilege, oppression, and
    education.
  • Create a JET implementation plan responsive to the cultural and social needs of
    learners and one's field of study.

Who can apply: Graduate and professional students, postdoctoral fellows, teaching staff, and faculty of all ranks affiliated to CU Boulder.听

If you are a graduate student working towards the聽Certificate in College Teaching聽or the聽Future Faculty Development Certificate, JET聽micro-credential badge will account for 5 CTL credits.

Reading Materials: Artze-Vega 2023. & other companion resources provided free of cost to all participants.

This micro-credential program provides professors, graduate students, and teaching staff with knowledge and skills to create inclusive and welcoming classroom spaces. By publicly displaying the digital badge awarded upon successful completion of this program, faculty, graduate students, and teaching faculty will signal their commitment to equity and social justice to other students, staff and faculty. This program aligns with one of the climate goals of the campus diversity and inclusion plan聽(the IDEA Plan), which aims to "ensure a curriculum that fosters intercultural competence and prepares critical thinkers who innovate through embracing multiple perspectives." (p. 6). Departments/primary units will be able to effectively measure equity and inclusion professional development as staff, faculty and graduate students complete this program, which aligns with the IDEA Plan's overarching recommendation that "All units should evaluate and take deliberate efforts to improve support of diversity, inclusion, and equity as pertains to climate, recruitment, and retention. This should include: growing accessible mentoring, leadership, and professional development opportunities."听(辫.14)

The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) and the CTL聽worked in partnership over the academic year 2020-2021 to develop a new certificate program聽focused on聽equity and social justice in classroom and research environments.

The CTL hired聽a group of graduate students to serve as a design team. The group explored potential workshops, mentorship training, social justice project planning, anti-racism reading, discussion and reflection, and more.听This JET micro-credential is the result of their efforts聽while the CTL explores additional options around equity and social justice programming and certification in collaboration with the Graduate School.

The Design Team included聽the following CU Boulder graduate students:聽

  • Irfanul Alam,聽Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Christine Chang, Computer Science
  • Daniel Garzon, Education/Equity, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy
  • Komal Preet聽Kaur, Political Science
  • Danni Lopez-Rogina,聽Sociology
  • Rosa Morales, Mechanical Engineering聽
  • Anthony Pinter,聽Information聽Science
  • Dana Stamo, Chemical & Biological Engineering/Biological Engineering聽
  • Jasmine Suryawan,聽Sociology
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  • Samantha聽Walker,聽Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences聽
  • Sophia聽Zaccarine, Aerospace Engineering Sciences - Bioastronautics Focus

And former聽CTL staff:

  • Quatez Scott, Inclusive Pedagogy Lead (now at )
  • Becca Edwards, Inclusive Pedagogy Lead (now at )