Special responsibilities of the faculty

• Attend a faculty seminar and business meeting each week ready to participate.
• Attend all required program activities except when illness or other serious circumstances prevent attendance.
• Be prepared for lectures, workshops and other activities as scheduled by the faculty team.
• Continually work to create a community that respects differences and encourages an environment where students and faculty can learn with and from each other.
• Make room for conversation and feedback by:

1. making time available for individual conferences with students;
2. giving prompt and meaningful feedback to student work;
3. giving students feedback throughout the quarter so that written evaluations are not a surprise;
4. during the fifth week of each quarter warning students who are in danger of not receiving full credit for that quarter;
5. each faculty will write a formal quarterly evaluation that will be the basis of the final evaluation the student receives upon leaving the program; and
6. giving each other honest feedback on workshops and lectures.

• Acknowledge that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and other institutional forms of oppression exist, and that one mechanism of their perpetuation is our systematic misinformation about members of various groups.[1]
• Agree to combat actively the myths and stereotypes about our own groups and other groups so that we can break down the walls that prohibit group cooperation and group gain.
• Agree not to blame others or ourselves for the misinformation we have learned, but  accept responsibility for unlearning misinformation.
• Avoid singling out individuals as spokespersons for particular group.