Sideris helps undergraduates in INVST Community Studies and CU Engage develop equity-focused community-based projects in the Boulder, CO area and beyond. Her research examines spatial justice, racial justice, and how higher education institutions participate in racialized displacement and gentrification. She also studies and practices community-based research, including Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR). She lived in affordable housing for 6 years and served on the Boulder Housing Coalition board for 12 years. Dr. Sideris is a Co-Primary Investigator and the liaison with community partner organizations, as well as the supervisor of the Undergraduate Research Assistants for CU-BAHRI, the CU Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative. Finally, Sideris studies inclusive pedagogy and the way universities develop Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programming and equity and racial - justice oriented policy and practice.
keywords
Higher Education, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Community Leadership, Critical Service Learning, Civic Engagement, Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR), Spacialization of Race/Racialization of Space, Social Justice, Climate Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Economic Justice, Immigration, Border Studies, International Solidarity, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Non-Profit Leadership, Organizational Growth/Development, Affordable Housing, Intersectionality Theory, leadership development
Teaching
courses taught
EDUC 4800 - Special Topics
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Summer 2018 / Summer 2019 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Designed to meet needs of students with topics of pertinent interest. May be repeated up to 18 total hours.
EDUC 5032 - College Student Leadership Development
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Surveys the study and practice of leadership and provides students with a variety of experiences to wrestle with large leadership questions. What is leadership? Who can be a leader? How is leadership an important aspect of understanding self and others?
FYSM 1000 - First Year Seminar
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Fall 2019
Provide first year students with an immersive experience in an interdisciplinary topic that addresses current issues including social, technical and global topics. Taught by faculty from across campus, the course provides students with an opportunity to interact in small classes, have project based learning experiences and gain valuable communication skills. Seminar style classes focused on discussion and projects.
INVS 1000 - Responding to Social and Environmental Problems Through Service Learning
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Spring 2019
By integrating theory with required community service, students explore how problems are shaped by cultural values and how alternative value paradigms affect the definition of problems in areas such as education and the environment. Students examine different approaches to solving problems and begin to envision new possibilities. Approved for GT-SS3.
INVS 3100 - Social Justice, Leadership and Community Engagement Internships
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Focuses on leadership theories and skills necessary for effectiveness in social justice settings. Students gain understanding of traditional and culturally diverse approaches to leadership and change. Community service required. Recommended prerequisite: ETHN 2001. Same as ETHN 3201.
INVS 3302 - Facilitating Peaceful Community Change
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Students gain knowledge and skills that enable them to become effective agents of community change. Focuses on understanding the processes of community building with a multicultural emphasis. Students are encouraged to apply their own life experiences and to examine themselves as potential change agents. Same as WGST 3302.
INVS 4402 - Nonviolent Social Movements
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Fall 2019
Explores theories of democracy and development in relation to movements for nonviolent social change. Focuses on means and ends, spirituality, leadership, decision-making, civil society, cooperative economics, ecology and decentralized powers.
LEAD 2410 - Dynamics of Power, Privilege, Oppression and Empowerment in Leadership
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Spring 2022
Examines the theoretical frameworks of social identity and power dynamic development (individual, group, institutional, cultural) and the resulting inequalities formed by systems of privilege and oppression - and their intersections - are manifested in society and how leadership is used to continue these systems or lead to empowerment and liberation.
LEAD 4000 - Leadership in Context and Emerging Challenges: A Capstone
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Integrates leadership topics and experiences students pursued through the Leadership Studies Minor. Using advanced critical thinking skills, the seminar requires students to evidence their knowledge, competencies and skills related to leadership theory and practice through examining contemporary leadership challenges. Further, the seminar directs students to justify decision-making processes, demonstrating their ability to synthesize prior knowledge to effect desirable, ethical outcomes.
WGST 3302 - Facilitating Peaceful Community Change
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Students gain knowledge and skills that enable them to become effective agents of community change. Focuses on understanding the processes of community building with a multicultural emphasis. Students are encouraged to apply their own life experiences and to examine themselves as potential change agents. Same as INVS 3302.
