Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
Sarah Sachs
About the Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science & Technology Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Cohort year(s)
- 2019-20, Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning
Topic(s)
- Access, Equity and Justice; Arts, Communication, Media and Design; Law, Government and Policy
2019-20 Project
Sarah Sachs is part of a team — with Engaged Faculty Fellows Malte Ziewitz and Stephen Hilgartner — that is developing, teaching and evaluating a new community-engaged undergraduate course called the Data Science & Society Lab. Funded by the Data Science Curriculum Initiative, the course brings together students from different majors to explore social and ethical problems in data science through a mix of interactive lectures and hands-on projects.
Examples of project challenges may be a systematic analysis of a recent ethical controversy for an NGO or local charity, a proposal for best practices for the problem of consent in large-scale data sets or a public resource for citizens who feel discriminated against by a data science application.
Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
A yearlong cohort program in which faculty dive deep into the theory and practice of community-engaged learning and scholarship; meet monthly to discuss readings, and share projects and workshop challenges