Spring 2025 Professional Development Week (PDW)

Come learn about the mathematicians, the doctors, the inventors, the engineers, innovators, artists, and activists who made an impact in so many different fields of study about whom the students in your classes should know. Launched in the Fall of 2024, join us as we continue to grow this organic project to determine the inspiring and too often forgotten national, regional, and local voices in American history across the disciplines—the sciences and the arts—whose examples can help us to create a more equitable, welcoming, and inspiring culture for our students here at our college and in our classrooms. We want to know more about the diverse people in American history about whom we should know because their words, ideas, actions, accomplishments, stories, and dreams made—and are continuing to make—an impact on the trajectory of our country. Help us to continue to develop, grow, and update the list that we started in the fall of 2024 of the too often forgotten Americans about whom we should know in your discipline and others that will inspire our students.