Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: Managing Risk and Responsibility in the Academy

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Systems-level practices and “normative” patterns of interaction have created working and learning spaces that do not allow all members of the higher education community to thrive personally or professionally. As members of this community, individuals have a choice as to whether they will participate in practices/patterns of exclusion or work to cultivate environments in which all people can truly achieve their potential.

This session centers around an embodied case study depicting one faculty member’s meditation on the consequences of his early inaction and the intentional practices he subsequently adopted in service of creating educational spaces that anticipate and mitigate exclusion. Through session activities, participants will reflect on why the academy is so resistant to change efforts and explore how they can still strategically work toward change, with awareness of and sometimes in spite of the risk of doing so.

**The video performance portion of this session contains strong language and descriptions of stigmatizing behaviors and practices. Please reach out to a CRLT Players staff member for a fuller description of the content of this session.

Presented by the CRLT Players