The Transparent Assignment, created by an initiative that significantly increases underserved college students’ success, provides a framework to transform even your best assignments so that they are more equitable and meaningful for your students.

RTC Canvas Templates make this an easy concept for you to employ.

More templates to promote equity and inclusion:

Related professional learning for RTC Faculty can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/rtc-citl/support/2020-21-pd

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TG Philanthropy funded the Transparency and Problem-Centered Learning project (www.aacu.org/problemcenteredlearning), has identified a "simple, replicable teaching intervention that demonstrably enhances students’ success, especially that of first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented college students in multiple ways at statistically significant levels, with a medium to large magnitude of effect.

These results offer implications for how faculty can help their institutions to right the inequities in college students’ educational experiences across the country." More information can be found in this article, A Teaching Intervention that Increases Underserved College Students’ Success by Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Matthew Bernacki, Jeffrey Butler, Michelle Zochowski, Jennifer Golanics and Kathryn Harriss Weavil.