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Your Voice Matters Subtitle: First-Year Writing and Social Justice
Jackie Hendricks, Amy J. Lueck, Loring Pfeiffer, and Maura Tarnoff
Your Voice Matters: First-Year Writing and Social Justice frames writing as both an intellectual and community-oriented practice rooted in identity, audience awareness, and ethical engagement. Beginning with personal ways of knowing and the social construction of language, the text advances through public writing for social change, research methods grounded in justice, rigorous source collection and analysis, and strategies for making scholarly conversation visible and meaningful to real audiences. By foregrounding positionality, linguistic justice, and multi-modal strategies for public communication, this book equips students with the critical tools and reflective practices necessary for producing purposeful, public-facing writing.
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Concepts in Biology
Christelle Sabatier, Michelle McCully, Dawn Hart, and Elizabeth Dahlhoff
Concepts in Biology is designed to help learners build a robust conceptual framework for understanding life and biological organization across levels of complexity. Organized around the Vision and Change framework (AAAS, 2011), the text covers the core biological concepts of Transformations of Energy and Matter, Information Flow, Evolution, Structure-Function and Systems. Students are guided to approach each concept at the cellular and molecular, organismal, and ecological levels of biological scale. This book emphasizes the interconnectedness of biological systems and the processes that drive life. Interactive questions are embedded throughout to engage students in the learning process and give them personalized and immediate feedback on their understanding. Using this book equips introductory college students with critical thinking and scientific literacy skills that serve as a foundation to their development as life scientists and informed citizens.
OER for Social Justice was a three-year initiative to support the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) across four California private institutions. With $1,533,300 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, librarians from LMU, Saint Mary’s College of California, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Francisco recruited, incentivized, and prepared 11 faculty teams to adapt, create, and publish OER that integrated diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist resources into high-enrollment courses across multiple disciplines. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. They can include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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