Love Data Week 2025 - SCU Library

Date: February 11, 2025
Time: Noon - 2 pm
Location: LC205

The Office of Educational Assessment in partnership with Institutional Research and with the support of the University Library invites you to a February Assessment for Equity Working Lunch as part of Love Data Week 2025: Whose data is it anyway?

Come, learn about what you can do to advance stronger survey design and use. Learn how to co-create, build, and disseminate valid and useful surveys that better serve your purpose and the SCU community. Bring ideas, question items, and survey instruments you may be working on for an active learning session on how to craft your survey questions and what your responsibilities are towards those you survey.

You will leave with knowledge and strategies about what concrete steps you must undertake when exploring surveys as your method of data collection. We will have a part II of this workshop in March that will be more focused on Survey Data Analysis.

We hope to see you there!

For more details, please contact dbheda@scu.edu

Date: February 12, 2025
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Location: LC 203/Zoom

Presenter: Andrew Carlos, Head of Research, Outreach, and inclusion

Embark on a journey in this hands-on workshop, designed for beginners to develop the skill of simple data visualization using Python. You will learn just enough Python to help you get started, as well as explore open datasets, and practice making decisions from data. You don’t have to be a Python expert to create clear and easy to understand charts - walk away with the confidence to make your own!

Date: February 13, 2025
Time: Noon - 1 PM
Location: Benson Parlors B/C

Educational Assessment with the Support of The Provost’s Office, Inclusive Excellence, and the SCU Library invites you to attend this Assessment for Equity opportunities as part of Black History Month and LOVE DATA WEEK 2025 themed: Whose data is it anyway?

Drawing on a power-conscious framework and ACPA’s Strategic Imperative for Racial Justice and Decolonization, this keynote critically examines the challenges and pitfalls that hinder institutional efforts to enact racial justice and decolonization. From “analysis paralysis” caused by an overreliance on data to the paradox of ignoring available evidence, the session will illuminate barriers to equity work while charting actionable paths forward that help us think about the who, why, and what of data and use. Attendees will leave with deeper insights and strategies to move beyond conceptual discussions toward impactful change, equipping them to lead efforts that center racial justice and decolonization on their campuses.

For more details, please contact dbheda@scu.edu

Date: February 13, 2025
Time: 5:00-6:30 PM
Location: Graham 156 (Commons)

Higher education has long been shaped by student activism and social movements. This dialogue invites students to learn about the rich history of advocacy while sharing their own stories of visibility, belonging, and resistance on campus. Together, we will brainstorm ways to create spaces of inclusion and support while addressing the importance of rest, community care, and avoiding burnout in advocacy work. The session will conclude with a brief, restorative community care activity to help participants leave feeling recharged and connected.

For more details, please contact dbheda@scu.edu

Date: February 13, 2025
Time: 2 - 3:30 pm
Location: Varsi 222

For leaders in co-curricular offices—whether in student affairs or student services—advancing equity and justice often feels like a daunting task. This active learning session, blending an interactive talk and hands-on workshop, offers a space to explore these challenges and uncover opportunities. Participants will engage in meaningful conversations with colleagues, share ideas, and receive practical examples of how equity and justice can be integrated across various functional areas. Attendees will leave with tangible tools, inspiration, and next steps for creating more equitable and just co-curricular environments.

Date: February 13, 2025
Time: 9:30 - 11 am
Location: Varsi 222

Faculty are welcome to a presentation followed by a Q&A exploring dissent as an action to challenge social inequities. Framed within the lineage of critical pedagogy, this presentation will examine the role of faculty in fostering dissent and developing a pedagogy that goes beyond the classroom to affect material change.

We will be using Google Colab for this workshop. It's a browser-based notebook that allows us to write and execute python code

At the end of the workshop, please complete this feedback form - it will provide us with valuable information for future workshops.