Dr. Rupert Nacoste will be here from 2-4:30p.m. on March 13, 2019 to facilitate a discussion on Teaching College in the New Age of Neo-Diversity. The discussion will be held in the city campus Union in the Colonial room.
Teaching in the college classroom in the 21st Century is a high wire act. Marriage equality; minorities becoming the majority; preferred pronouns; #MeToo. What is going on? Change is happening every day, everywhere in America causing intergroup tensions. Racial murders; religious murders; what is prejudice, what is bigotry, what is racism? College students are anxious in their everyday walk on and off campus. College students are struggling with how to talk to each other with respect.
That is because who is in the college classroom is a wild mix of people from different backgrounds and group experiences. Our classrooms are neo-diverse and we must not just be aware of that neo-diversity, but be prepared to teach in a way that manages the neo-diversity tensions students bring with them into the classroom. Since we live in a post-9/11 America, our students come to us with high anxieties about interacting with other students from different groups. It is in that social reality that any given professor must teach. This presentation will work the participants through a set of ideas about how to manage the neo-diversity tensions that could arise in the midst of teaching any college course.
Dr. Rupert W. Nacoste is Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University. After serving in and being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy (1972-1976), Dr. Nacoste received his B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Florida (1978), and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1982). On the faculty of NCSU since 1988, Dr. Nacoste has won many awards for his classroom teaching including being named the 2013 NCSU Campus-Winner, UNC Board of Governors Excellence In Teaching Award. In 2016 he was awarded the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for outstanding faculty career contribution to the NCSU community.
For the past 45 years, beginning during his service in the Navy, Dr. Nacoste has worked as a scholar-activist on diversity issues as a facilitator of discussions of, and as a scholar of, interpersonal and intergroup relationships. His most recent book is "Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move From Anxiety to Respect" (2015 NY: Prometheus Books).
We hope you can join us for this compelling conversation! We will host a reception immediately following from 3:30-4:30 PM. Register here: https://go.unl.edu/3xt8
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/3xt8