The Liquid Syllabus: Exploring its Adoption and Impact on Students

Online Teaching Conference 2023

• Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Foothill-DeAnza Community College District
• Renee Garcia, Saddleback College

Slides

Resources

Liquid Syllabus

• What’s a Liquid Syllabus?
• Public Course: How to Create a Liquid Syllabus
• Article: The Liquid Syllabus: An Anti-racist Teaching Element
• Article: For Frictionless Syllabus Access, Some Professors Bypass the College, Inside Higher Ed, Nov 2023

The Humanized Online Teaching Model

• Humanizing project website
• Article: In Search of Belonging Online
• Infographic – How & Why to Humanize Your Online Class

Research Related to Equitable Syllabi

• Bensimon, E. M. (n.d.). Syllabus review guide, Center for Urban Education, USC Rossier School of Education. 
• Gurung, R. A., & Galardi, N. R. (2022). Syllabus tone, more than mental health statements, influence intentions to seek help. Teaching of Psychology, 49(3), 218-223.
• Harnish, R. J., & Bridges, K. R. (2011). Effect of syllabus tone: Students’ perceptions of instructor and course. Social Psychology of Education, 14, 319-330.
• Pacansky-Brock, M., Smedhammer, M., & Vincent-Layton, K. (2023). In search of belonging online: Achieving equity through transformative professional development. Journal of Educational Research & Practice, (12)0. 
• Pacansky-Brock, M. (2021). The liquid syllabus: An anti-racist teaching element, C2C Digital Magazine (1)15. 
• Pacansky-Brock, M., Smedhammer, M., & Vincent-Layton, K. (2020). Humanizing online teaching to equitize higher education. Current Issues in Education, (21)2, 1-21.
• Taylor, S. D., Veri, J. J., Eliason, J., Hermoso, J. C. R., Bolter, N. D., Van Olphen, J. E. (2019). The social justice syllabus design tool: A first step in doing social justice pedagogy,  Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 5(2). 
• Zhang, J. (2021). Designed for equitable learning: A study of UCD and liquid syllabus in an online synchronous course. SIGDOC ‘21 Proceedings. 

References

• Gallup & Lumina. (2023). The state of higher education 2023 report.
• Harper. R. P., Weston, T.J. & Seymour, E. Students’ perceptions of good STEM teaching. In Seymour, E. & Hunger, A. B. (eds.) Talking about leaving revisited, 2019. Springer.
• Hurtado, S., & Carter, D. F. (1997). Effects of college transition and perceptions of the campus racial climate on Latino college students’ sense of belonging. Sociology of Education, 70(4), 324–345.
• Johnson, R. M. (2022). A socio-ecological perspective on sense of belonging among racially/ethnically minoritized college students: Implications for equity-minded practice and policy. Enacting Student Success: Critical And Alternative Perspectives for Practice, 197, 59-68.
• Leary, M. R. & Baumeister, R.F. (1995). The need to belong. Psychological Bulletin, 117(3), 497-529.
• Strayhorn, T. L. (2019). College students’ sense of belonging: A key to educational success for all students. (2nd ed.). Routledge.