ARPAC Workshop
2025 Virtual ARPAC Workshop
Join us June 2-6, 9 a. m. to 1 p.m. CDT.
The 15th annual Antiracist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (ARPAC) workshop will be held virtually through Zoom. This award-winning workshop is open to teaching faculty and teaching graduate students from all higher education institutions. This year’s curriculum is thoughtfully redesigned to address the current state of higher education. We invite teams of 2-5 faculty per institution to attend ARPAC as a cohort. Slots for individuals without a team are also available.
The ARPAC workshop provides intensive professional development for faculty committed to incorporating antiracist pedagogy into their courses; it is not a train-the-trainer program. ARPAC engages faculty in an analysis of systemic racism and provides a conceptual framework focused on antiracist pedagogy for a rigorous and relevant curriculum. The workshop also provides the ongoing ARPAC Community of Practice to support faculty, across the curriculum, in their teaching and commitment to antiracist praxis. In addition, participating faculty are encouraged to develop campus-specific strategies for broader antiracism organizing across their institutions.
The 2025 Virtual ARPAC Workshop offers a curriculum designed specifically for the virtual environment. In order to create authentic community, participants will be expected to keep their video on and be fully present.
For more information, email ari@stcloudstate.edu.
Faculty Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the ARPAC workshop, participants will:
- Identify, articulate, and analyze how race, racism, and privilege are manifested in our classrooms;
- Adapt various approaches for developing antiracist pedagogy within our classrooms; and
- Apply strategies to transform how race, racism, and privilege are manifested in our institutions.
Institute Schedule and Outline
The Virtual ARPAC Workshop will be offered online through Zoom. The five half-day sessions include synchronous content and activities with built-in break times, along with reading, reflection, and application assignments to be completed outside of those scheduled hours. Participants are expected to arrange their schedules so they can fully participate in all sessions.
Topics focus particularly on incorporating antiracist pedagogy across the curriculum.
Participants will:
- Engage with a framework for understanding what systemic racism is and its relationship to white dominant culture in the United States;
- Begin to explore how the values of white dominant culture operating through US institutions replicate patterns of intersectional oppression that advantage white people disproportionately and that harm people of color regardless of intent;
- Deepen their understanding of inclusion, racial equity and antiracism in the context of higher education, distinguishing between multicultural teaching and antiracist pedagogy;
- Engage in self-reflection of one's social positionality;
- Analyze the role of racism in shaping higher education (broadly), your discipline/field, and teaching;
- Engage in a syllabus audit, paying attention to essential elements for antiracist education;
- Write/edit course learning objectives to include antiracism;
- Expand their repertoire of inclusive and antiracist classroom practices;
- Connect their classroom work with larger antiracist organizing efforts to transform higher education; and
- Begin to unpack what the long-term strategic work of dismantling institutional practices upholding systemic racism will require of higher education and its stakeholders.
Registration
- We encourage teams of 2-5 faculty per institution to attend ARPAC as a cohort. Slots for individuals without a team are also available.
- The registration fee is $550 per participant. Registration for MinnState faculty is available at no cost through scholarships from the Academic and Student Affairs Division under the direction of Senior Vice Chancellor, Satasha Green-Stephen. To receive a scholarship, contact Melissa Prescott at mkprescott@stcloudstate.edu before completing your registration.
- Any cancellations will result in a processing fee of $25.00. Cancellations must be received by Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
- The deadline for registration is Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
Institute Organizing Team and Sponsors
2025 Virtual ARPAC Organizing Team
- Kyoko Kishimoto, Professor, Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Women's Studies, St. Cloud State University
- Melissa Prescott, Professor, University Library and Multicultural Resource Center Associate Director, St. Cloud State University
- Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair, Associate Professor and Multicultural Resource Center Director, St. Cloud State University (on leave 2024-2025)
The 2025 Virtual ARPAC Institute is sponsored by the Antiracism Institute for Teaching and Research at St. Cloud State University and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.