SEED Application 2018-19

SEED is a peer-led professional development program that promotes change through self-reflection and interpersonal dialogue; it builds capacity for more equitable curriculum, campuses, workplaces, and communities.

SEED's unique methodology involves:

facilitating ongoing, structured, group conversations in which all voices can be heard
examining how our own stories relate to social systems
learning from the lessons of our own lives as well as from texts
turning oppression and privilege into agency and action

SEED participants use their own experiences, and those of their students, to widen and deepen school and college curricula and make communities more inclusive.

SEED values all voices and experiences and recognizes diversity in its many forms including, but not limited to, the traditionally thought of categories such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation or ability, to the sometimes less thought of categories such as military service, position classification, primary campus, introversion/extroversion, length of service at UCF, family structure, or political affiliation. All forms of diversity matter and are welcomed in SEED.

For general information about SEED, please visit the national project's website at https://www.nationalseedproject.org/. For questions specifically about UCF's SEED cohort, please contact Rachel Luce-Hitt at rachel.luce-hitt@ucf.edu.

Session Dates

All sessions will be held at the Barbara Ying Center, Room 140.

Thursday, September 13, 2018, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, October 11, 2018, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday November 8, 2018, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, January 24, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, February 21, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

Thursday, April 18, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

Because of the safe, explorative space that is created, it is imperative that participants commit to attending all sessions. Are you able to attend all sessions listed above? *

Yes, I will be able to attend all SEED sessions. No, I am going to have to miss at least 1 session.

Name *

First Name Last Name

Employee ID (PID) *

E-mail *

Phone *

Department *

Position/Title *

Position Classification *

OPS USPS A&P Faculty (tenured) Faculty (tenure track) Faculty (non-tenured)

# of Years Working at UCF *

What gender pronouns do you identify with for yourself? (ie she/her, he/him, they/them, ze/hir, etc).

Please list any accommodation requests here (including dietary restrictions).

SEED requires people to do rigorous and sometimes uncomfortable internal exploration. Why do you want to be a part of SEED? Please share one or two key factors in your life that influence your desire to create a more inclusive campus enviornment. *

SEED considers the ways that constructed identities -- both personal and social --shape our lives and our work - often without our conscious awareness. These include, but are not limited to, our race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, religious, age, and ability based identities. How have you witnessed individual, social, and cultural differences and social power in your life and in the world around you? *

2018-19 UCF SEED Application