Faculty Resources

The L.A.C.E.- hearted Way: Moving from Panic to Purpose in Online Classroom

Division of Equity and Inclusion
Office of the Vice President
University of Oregon

As faculty, many of us are on a forced journey of teaching remotely and online in unprecedented times. For some, this is our first foray into the online world, but even if it is not, most of us have never taught with uncertainty, panic and grief as our constant companions and competitors.

All across the world, educators are mourning the normalcy of our lives and the certainty that, in reality, has always been an illusion. We are grieving our friends and loved ones taken by coronavirus as we bid them goodbye from afar. While better days are certainly coming, getting there means journeying through a pathway lined with grief, loss and pain.

Yet, as we journey alongside the avenues and curves of uncertainty, pain and death, footprints of those who have traveled before us inspire us to move forward. At our own comfortable paces and in partnership with our students, journeying in the L.A.C.E.-hearted way of love, authenticity, courage and empathy, offers an opportunity to shift our perspectives from panic to purpose.

Using the L.A.C.E. Framework as our compass, this page serves as a complement to the resources offered by the Office of the Provost and also our Teaching Engagement Program.

The purpose of the page this to encourage faculty to show up in ways that are loving, authentic, courageous and empathetic. As you do so, we encourage you to share your thoughts and insights on what is working via this qualtrics link. For more information on the L.A.C.E. framework and how faculty can use it to embolden and empower their teaching, please click here. Below are resources that facilitate community building and engagement with students in ways that spark and sustain life-long learning.

What is the L.A.C.E. Framework and how it can be used in the classroom

It Feels Like I'm Pouring Energy Into a Void" Faculty members share their thoughts on trying to reach disconnected students by Beth McMurtrie. The Chronicles of Higher Education, April 11, 2022.
Why Search Committees Struggle to Diversify the Faculty by Abbi Ross. The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2022.
Race on Campus: How One University Recruited Its Largest Cohort of Native Scholars by Chelsea Long. The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 29, 2022.
8 Ways for Search Committees to Be Inclusive by Amy Crutchfield. The Chronicles of Higher Education, March 28, 2022.
We’re Not OK: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies with Authors Dr. Antija Allen and Justin Stewart by In The Margins. Diverse Issues in Higher Education, March 16, 2022.
What Anti-LGBTQ+ State Bills Mean for Higher Ed by Rebecca Kelliher. Diverse Issues in Higher Education, March 5, 2022.
How inclusive language at work affects mental health by Nicole Ng. ragan, March 1, 2022.

Templates that can be tailored to your personal style to reach out to students for the purpose of:

- championing students
- underperforming students, and/or
- providing sympathy in the event that students sustain some personal COVID-19 tragedy.
Guide for encouraging positive communication
Guide for addressing hot topics and issues of conflict in productive ways
Considerations for Single Parenting Students
6 Leadership Tips for the COVID-19 Crisis by David Grossman. PRSA: May. 1, 2020
8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching, by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy. Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2020.
Accessible Teaching in the Time of Covid-19 by Aimi Hamraie. In: Mapping Access, March 10,2020.
Best Practices for Inclusive Remote Meetings. AGU Ethics and Equity Center. Acessed April 20,2020.
A Better Way to Increase Faculty Diversity by Tameka Porter and Mark J. Rozell. The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2022.
Beyond "High Risk": Statement on Disability and Campus Re-openings by Accessible Campus Action Alliance. Accessible Campus Action Alliance, updated July 10, 2020.
Breaking the Cycle to Heal: How Campus Leadership Can Center Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Brandon Wolfe and Paulette Patterson Dilworth. Insight into Diversity, November 17, 2020.
Bridging Connections and Building Community by Anna Nguyen. The University of Oregon, 2021.
Campus Leaders Discuss Research Institutions’ Role in Combatting COVID-19, Structural Racism By Lisa O'Malley Insight into Diversity, July 1, 2020
Connecting Students to Support by Lee. Remote Teaching Ideas, UO TEP and UO Online blog, Sep 13, 2020
COVID-19 and Students with Disabilities in College. Disability Rights Texas, March 20, 2020.
COVID-19 Messaging Resources. The Opportunity Agenda, 2020
CLASS Seed Grant Award from Latinx Research. Center for Latino/A & Latin American Studies, 2022.
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World. Edited by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim. Teachers College Press, 2017.
Deaf in a pandemic: How the Deaf UO community is handling the new normal by Jane Glazer. Daily Emerald, October 16, 2020.
The Debate About Critical Race Theory: Implications for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace by Diverse Education. October 20th, 2021.
Education and Justice Departments Warn of Covid’s ‘Profound Toll’ on Student Mental Health by Sarah Brown. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2021.
Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square by Alayna Eagle Shield, Django Paris, Rae Paris and Timothy San Pedro. Routledge: 2020.
Empathy: It's your game-changer by Betty Johnson. Smart Brief, January 6, 2022.
An Exercise to Help Your Team Overcome the Trauma of the Pandemic by David Larson and Lisa Zigarmi. September 2021.
Faculty and staff reminded of maintaining a respectful workplace. Around the O. January 11, 2021.
Faculty at Risk: Colleges Can Support Faculty Mental Health During Stressful Times by Erik Cilburn, Insight Into Diversity. November 17, 2020.
Finding Solutions to Support Child Care during COVID-19 by Gina Adams. Urban Institute, Sept 22,2020.
Gift will boost diversity in UO's education and business colleges by Jim Murez. The University of Oregon, May 6, 2021.
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson, Harvard Business School. November 1, 2020.
How to have healthy arguments in 2020 | The Lost Art of Argument documentary, by the University of Oregon. YouTube, Oct 25, 2020
How to make teaching more inclusive by Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2022.
How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders by Patrice Gordon. TED. November, 2020.
How to take action against anti-Asian racism at work and in your personal life by Jennifer Liu. CNBC Make It. March 18, 2021.
How U.S. Coronavirus Measures Affect International Students: While uncertainty remains, colleges are trying to ensure that both current and prospective international students can study in the U.S. by Anayat Durrani. US News and World Report: March 13, 2020
Inclusive Pedagogies by University of Oregon Faculty. 2021.
Lessons learned: 9 takeaways from teaching online during COVID-19” Tips for remote instruction developed in the past 10 weeks by Damian Radcliffe, UO Professor SOJC. Medium, May 16 2020.
List and description of activities that build connection between you and your students and also among students. Community building is important in facilitating learning in face-to-face learning environments, but it is especially important in online environments.
Love, Forgiveness . . . and Law – A Conversation with Michelle Stimpson by Jen Reynolds. UO School of Law. 2021.
Multifaceted: The Cultural Diversity of Asian America by Christine Tran. Thirteen: Media with Impact. March 19, 2020
Multiple Front Lines - Everything Involved in What We Call (Online) Learning. Wednesday, October 14, 2020. National Conference on Race in Higher Education. NCORE Webinar.
An Ongoing Journey by Meredith Barnett. CASE, November 1, 2021.
Op-Ed: Working in Solidarity to Address Anti-Asian Violence and Xenophobia by Christa Grant, Gretchel Hathaway and D Ekow King. INSIGHT Into Diversity. March 18, 2021.
People Leader Resilience Playbook: How to lead in the midst of uncertainty. LifeLabs Learning. 2021.
"Race, Class, Gender and Media”: Teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Media and Communications Studies
Raising awareness about access to affordable textbooks by Around the O. December 8, 2020
Race on Campus: Teaching Black History to White People by Leonard N. Moore. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2021.
Racial and Social Justice Resource Hub. AACTE Advocates for Racial and Social Justice: Critical Issues in Education, 2022.
Is ‘Race Fatigue’ Setting in? Senior Diversity Leaders Weigh-in by Autumn Arnett. Diverse Issues in Higher Education, February 16, 2022.
Reporting on under-represented voices: five key questions journalists need to ask themselves by Mia Ryder-Marks. Journalism UK, February 9, 2021
Reporting on under-represented voices: five key questions journalists need to ask themselves by Mia Ryder-Marks. Journalism UK, February 9, 2021.
Research Guidance for Graduate Students and Advisors during Covid by University of Oregon College of Education. May 15, 2020.
Resource for accessible teaching ideas in Covid-19 context by Aimi Hamraie. Mapping Access, March 10,2020.
StarTalk coaching provides support during challenging times, Around the O. Oct 27, 2020.
Safe Ramadan practices in the context of the COVID-19: interim guidance. Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish. World Health Organization, 15 April 2020
“Stakes Is High’: Educating New Century Students. by Gloria Ladson-Billings. The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 82, no. 2, 2013, pp. 105–110. Available via UO Library at: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7709/jnegroeducation.82.2.0105. Accessed 16 Apr. 2020.
'Segregation Forever'? by Andrew Howard Nichols, PH.D. The Education Trust, August 2020.
Symbols Matter: Colleges and Universities respond to Movement Against Racist Imagery and Namesakes By Mariah Stewart. Insight into Diversity, August 18, 2020.
Talking About COVID-19: Centering Language around Inclusion, Empowerment, and Justice. The Opportunity Agenda, 2020.
The Black Experience in Higher Education, by IHE Staff. Inside Higher ED, October 20, 2020.
UO launches master’s in Education Policy and Leadership by Madeline Ryan. AroundtheO, January 3, 2022.
UO researchers help create virtual reality diversity training by Meghan Mortensen. The University of Oregon, March 15, 2021.
Understanding systemic racism and how to combat it by Elanor Seaton. Arizona State University, June 23, 2020.
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful by Tara Haelle. Elemental, August 17, 2020.

Wellness

Empathy Will Matter More Than Ever in a Post-COVID World by Helio Fred Garcia. PRSA, May 2021.
The reason Zoom calls drain your energy by Manyu Jiang. BBC, April 22, 2020.
Resource for accessible teaching ideas in Covid-19 Hamraie, Aimi. “Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID-19.” Mapping Access, March 10, 2020. https://www.mapping-access.com/blog-1/2020/3/10/accessible-teaching-in-….
Review your energy to see where you may make improvements with the Harvard Energy Audit (slightly adapted) - Energy Assessment by the UO Leadership Academy, April 2020.
Use some concepts from improvisational acting to help manage the uncertainty of these times. What Comes Next?: Improvising Our Way Through Uncertainty by the UO Leadership Academy, April 2020.