Sara Furr

Sara Furr has served as the director of the Center for Intercultural Programs since November 2013. In this role, she is responsible for creating and facilitating diversity and social justice education initiatives for students, faculty, staff, and community partners. Prior to becoming the director, Sara served as the assistant director of Multicultural Student Success at DePaul. Prior to her work at DePaul University, Sara served as the director of Intercultural Development at Mount St. Mary's University. Additional experiences include work at Fordham University in New York City and Loyola College in Maryland.

Sara received her bachelor's degree in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and masters of education in higher education and student affairs from the University of South Carolina. She is also currently working on her PhD in Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago.

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“whose voices are heard and whose voices are not?”

We define “pedagogy” to include the teaching methods one employs as well as the curriculum 

and philosophy that undergirds one’s practices. Although pedagogy is often seen as falling 

within the realm of faculty, our broad definition of pedagogy is inclusive of student affairs 

educators as well. Critical pedagogy prompts both faculty and student affairs educators to 

consider issues of power and ask questions such as: “whose voices are heard and whose voices 

are not?” in the process of making decisions related to students’ learning. Critical pedagogy 

pushes educators to not just consider curriculum, philosophies, and teaching approaches, but 

also the kind of power relationships that are maintained by their decisions, as well as what 

inequities need to be challenged in the process of making pedagogical decisions.  

We created this channel to gather stories from folks who infuse critical pedagogy in their work. 

 We honor that there is no one way to do this so we’re looking for more stories and we hope 

you’re interested.

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