DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN OUR DEPARTMENT
As the department at the heart of the University of Arkansas’s mission to educate
students in intercultural competency, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures is
dedicated to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels. This includes
but is not limited to incorporating multiple points of view into our curriculum, removing
barriers to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of our diverse faculty, staff
and students, and seeking out opportunities for ongoing learning about these issues.
Our commitment to academic rigor in research means we promote scholarship that fosters solidarity and pushes us to expand the limits of our disciplines to include a wider variety of voices and perspectives. An ongoing emphasis on providing quality teaching includes creating classroom atmospheres and working spaces that are open and hospitable for our students from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. As a department, we understand that celebrating diversity and placing inclusivity at the center of our work leads to the highest caliber of participation and service to our respective fields, to each other and to our community.
SPOTLIGHT
- Dr. Erika Almenara
Dr. Almenara's new book, The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru, was published on Oct. 4, 2022 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Student Success Peer Learning Workshops
The student-led workshop series held three sessions on Oct. 26, Nov. 3, and Nov. 10 to assist fellow Razorbacks with learning a world language.
- U of A Team Accepted into Institute on ePortfolios
WLLC's Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Dr. Curtis Maughan join the U of A Team to represent the University at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Institute on ePortfolios.