Elizabethtown College’s Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access recently named its Faculty and Administration Fellows for the 2024-25 academic year.

Faculty and Administration Fellows are provided with tools to allow them to become key resources and collaborate throughout campus in increasing the reach and capacity of civil rights, opportunity, and access at the College. As an academic-year-long commitment, Fellows prepare, research, and develop a project that is presented and implemented in the spring semester. 

This year’s Faculty and Administration Fellows are:

  • Sarah B. Dutton, Program Director, World Languages and Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
  • Mike Shook, Lecturer & Practicum Coordinator, Master or Arts in Counseling Psychology
  • Desmond Yengi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
  • Rachel M. Grove Rohrbaugh, Archivist

Faculty Fellows will work alongside Etown’s Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access and The Learning Design Studio to assist with developing ways to incorporate Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Higher Ed into Etown’s curricular and co-curricular experiences. TILT aims to advance equitable teaching and learning practices that reduce systemic inequities in higher education.

“This year’s Faculty Fellows are championing TILT Higher Education to foster a more transparent and supportive learning environment,” Elizabethtown College Senior Advisor for the Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access, Kesha Morant Williams said. “By clarifying expectations, TILT is a crucial tool in closing equity gaps, ensuring that all students, no matter their background, have a stronger chance to succeed. TILT’s principles resonate beyond the classroom as well, impacting every facet of campus life. Through this framework, our Fellows are leading the way in institutional improvement and enhancing our ability to serve our students more effectively.” 

Dutton’s project is focused on how best to leverage GenAI resources in making it simpler to adopt the TILT framework across disciplines. She will present her project, “Tilt + GenAI = Equitable Teaching and Learning + Easier Grading” at the Northeast Council on the teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) annual conference in New York City on March 1, 2025, as well as on campus during a JayBites session this fall on Nov. 6, and for the School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) faculty on April 10. 

“As I learn and experiment more with TILT, I’m excited to share the ways I am applying this framework in my language classes,” Dutton said. “It does take a little time to adapt assignments, but all of my students create better products, have better discussions, are more engaged in class, and achieve better results with those I have TILT-ed.”

Administrative Fellows focus on an initiative of their choosing that enhances inclusive excellence in their area of responsibility. 

Rohrbaugh, Etown’s DEB Administrative Fellow, will continue the work she began this summer as part of Etown’s Summer Creative Arts and Research Program (SCARP) to preserve the stories of Etown’s students and alumni of color through research and interviews. Her work is also closely aligned with Etown’s partnership with the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in serving as a Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center. 

“We are thrilled by Rachel’s contributions, whose work is expanding the reach of our TRHT,” Morant Williams said. “Through her archival research and oral history project, Rachel highlights the innovative ways the TRHT framework is being translated into practice here at Etown.”