Enacting Our Strategic Plan

For the past two years, we have coordinated an annual grant proposal process within our college to support the numerous endeavors by our faculty, students, and staff that advance the priority areas of our strategic plan.

2020-2021 Lurie College Strategic Plan Grants

• Bilingual Communication Project • Creating an Inclusive Climate: Queering Our Classrooms and

Our Campus • Early Childhood Connections • Enacting Emancipatory Education: The Development of an • Intersectional Disability Studies Strand at SJSU • Enhancing Ethnic Studies Education and Teacher Diversity

Pathways • Expanding Community Capacity for Youth Civic Empowerment • Interprofessional Education Project • Justice-Centered Science Teacher Collective: Supporting the

Preparation and Development of K-12 Justice-Centered Science

Teacher Leaders and Change Agents • Perspectives on Culturally Sustaining Practices for Black,

Indigenous, and People of Color who use Augmentative and

Alternative Communication

Read the descriptions and access resources for our strategic plan grants at sjsu.edu/education/community/strategic-plan.

Creating an Inclusive Climate: Queering Our Classrooms and Our Campus

We’re grateful for the advocacy of Lurie College faculty Dr. Kyoung Mi Choi, Associate Professor of Counselor Education, and Dr. Robert Marx, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development, who have teamed up with Frank Peña, Outreach Coordinator of San José’s LGBTQ Youth Space, to utilize their strategic plan grant to offer the SJSU community introductory and advanced trainings that make our campuses classes, offices, and programming more accessible for and supportive of our queer and trans students and coworkers.

“Based on the feedback we received from our student participants, it’s clear that they want to be acknowledged and respected, especially when it comes to using their correct names and pronouns,” said Choi.

“We want to be really practical and concrete and provide resources such as 4 things you can do at the start of your class to make sure that your queer students feel more supported and included in your class,” said Marx.