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Abstract: The University of Arizona is one of 16 Carnegie R1 Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and one of four R1, HSIs with membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). We are also a land-grant university located in the US-Mexico borderland, a cradle of wisdom, identities, cultures, and people still only tenuosly centered in our campus’ vast curricular offerings. Framed by this institutional backdrop of commitment to excellent teaching, research, and servingness—the intentional enhancement of marginalized identities throughout the academic experience—this presentation discusses aims and design of a novel asset-based, culturally-responsive precalculus curriculum centering Tucson and the Southwestern US as place and identity. I will introduce course design principles and share specific precalculus content examples, aiming to illustrate how curricular rigor is not only uncompromised but actually enhanced through scenarios that relate to students’ lived experiences and make the mathematics come authentically alive within place-based, affirming contexts. The talk aims to offer a proof-of-concept for how might one go about creating other culturally-centering STEM curricula.
Bio-Sketch: Guadalupe (Guada) Lozano grew up in Argentina. She serves as Director for the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES), is an Associate Research Professor of Mathematics, and a Founding Member of the STEM in HSI Working Group at the University of Arizona. Trained as a mathematician, Guada has co-authored a few of the Harvard calculus consortium textbooks, and has studied the impact of college curricula and active learning pedagogies on students’ conceptual mathematics learning. Throughout her career, Guada has mentored mathematics faculty, K-12 teachers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in the implementation of evidence-based instructional practices at three universities, two community colleges and multiple national workshops. Guada’s present work at UArizona includes building faculty capacity in the scholarship of university teaching and learning across all disciplines.Guada leads and contributes to local, national, and international efforts committed to growing equitable practices in higher education, STEM professions, and public schools. They include active collaborations with community partners, advancing STEM equity through “servingness,” and studying the global gender gap in science and mathematics. A current grant-sponsored project most dear to her heart, is the design and implementation of a culturally-affirming precalculus dual-enrollment curriculum centered in Tucson, its identity and its people. In 2021 Guada was named a Notable Woman in Math by the Association for Women in Mathematics, and featured in the inaugural deck of Even Quad Playing Cards for her contributions to research, the profession, and the University on teaching, learning, and equity.
LOCATION
Koffler - Room 218
PRESENTER
Dr. Guadalupe Lozano Associate Research Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona
Hosted byDr. Vicente Talanquer