Preventing & Recovering the Loss of Bandwidth Due to Poverty, Racism, and Other “Differentisms”

AAC&U Annual Meeting

January 25, 2019

Cia Verschelden & Tina Bhargava

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory on which we gather, as the ancestral unceded homelands of the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek Nations.

Scarcity steals cognitive resources

Economic insecurity –Bandwidth Tax

Social-psychological underminers

• Stereotype/Identity threat

• Belongingness uncertainty

•Microaggressions

• Vicarious racism

• Adverse Childhood Experiences

Stereotype threat

Stereotype/identity threat

Belongingness uncertainty

Microaggressions

Vicarious Racism/Racism PTSD

Adverse Childhood Experienceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMjTzCnbNQ

Strengths perspective

Bandwidth recovery

Funds of knowledge

Values affirmation

”Creating” belonging

Connecting the known to the unknown

Identity-safe images

Grace – high-hope syllabus

The Role of the Institution

How do you want your students to use their bandwidth?

How do you define and measure success?

What affects GPA?

Where you liveNeighborhood/ K12

qualityAcademic work quality/quantity

Graduate school admissions/prep

Career income/ SES

Neighborhood safety

Type/quality of collegeInstructor quality/

communicationPersistence/

graduation ratesType/quality/

security of job

High school GPA SES/finances Class size/format Career choice Social standing

Motivation (students, teach)

K12 instructor salary/attitude

Schedule/ attendance

Grants/ scholarships

Where you & your family live

Parent jobs/ incomes/prefs

Parent support/ involvement

Adjusting to college/ life changes

Majors/program admissions

Physical & mental health

How K12 schools are funded

Family members went to college

Amount/difficulty of coursework

Internship opportunities

Amount of debt/ ability to pay it

Policy on K12 school testing

Transportation/ parking

Interaction w/facultyResearch

opportunitiesJob mobility

K12 school size High school env. Course load Honors/awards

K12 school district decisions/ finances

Social life/ support in college

Personal obligations (care-giving, work)

Fraternity/ sorority admittance

SES/family income Cultural background Academic skills Economic mobility

Race/background/ citizenship

Health & learning differences

Mental & physical Health

Reputation as student

Effort Cost of texts, etc Athletics

Availability lrng. help Motivation/ interests

Pre-college demands Resources for success

How are you supporting practices that affirm the value of your

measures of success?

How are you giving credit for (seldom measured or recognized)

relevant strengths?

How are you accounting for bandwidth privilege?

How are you acknowledging bandwidth as a

rare and precious resource?

How are you providing equitable access to limited opportunities?

How are your bandwidth demands aligned with your objectives?

Are your bandwidth demands reasonable?

How are you addressing the consequences of

chronic bandwidth exhaustion?

How are you nurturing brain health?

Eat Sleep

Breathe Move

Have you achieved world peace? (Or at least tried?)

Thank you!