The Center for Inclusive Excellence
The Edwards College Center for Inclusive Excellence is an interdisciplinary and dynamic hub for faculty and student fellows in collaboration with the regional community to engage in exceptional and socially responsible research and teaching. Each academic year the Center's work will be organized around a topic that will generate creative production, critical research, and socially engaged projects among three elected faculty members, student research fellows, and a graduate fellow. The collaborative creative and critical work generated around the elected topic will emerge in conversation with stakeholders in the larger community.
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Faculty and student fellows demonstrate a strong and sustainable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
CIE Faculty Fellows
Announcing our new theme for 2023-2024:
Representation Matters
Student fellowship applications are due October 31. Apply here. Contact Dr. Eric Schultz for details.
2023 – 2024 Faculty Fellows
Project: Exploring Ways to Diversify Legacy Newspaper Newsrooms
Adam Pitluk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, Media, & Culture
Project: Permanent Lenses of Diversity: Reading Minority Gazes in Photography
Edurne Beltrán de Heredia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Project: Black American Music in the Classroom
David W. Carter, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music Education
Department of Music
2022-2023
Benjamin Sota bsota@coastal.edu | Bridget Nolan bnolan@coastal.edu | Sarah Lozier-Laiola slozierl@coastal.edu
2021-2022
Eric Schultz eschultz@coastal.edu | Wendy Weinhold wweinhold@coastal.edu | Elizabeth Baltes ebaltes@coastal.edu
Patrick Fowler, Graduate Teaching Assistant pbfowler@coastal.edu
Faculty Fellow Commitments
Year One:
- Development of projects with significant involvement of student Research Fellows throughout the AY.
- Installations and performances in Fall and Spring semesters, with community involvement.
Year Two:
- Participation on selection committee (fellows; and theme).
- Feedback on student Research Fellows.
- Report on project outcomes.
Director
Eric Schultz
Edwards Center for Inclusive Excellence & Assistant Professor of Music
Sands 122 | 843-349-6431 | eschultz@coastal.edu
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