Thursday October 19th - In Person Track
Check In, 8:30am - 3:45pm
Session Block 3, 9:30 - 10:30am
Equity and Inclusion: Audism
Room: 306A
Workshop
ASL Club, Grace Baker, Catherine Vickery
This session will focus on equity and inclusion for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing individuals. We will begin with a presentation to explain and define the term “Audism”. We will hear from some individuals who identify as Deaf or Hard-of-hearing on their experiences with Audism and what they would have liked to see from the hearing community to support them. Together we will discuss and plan how we can support Deaf and Hard-of-hearing individuals in our day to day lives.
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Oral Session
Room: 310
Inclusive Excellence in Strategic Planning
Elizabeth Kerr
Miami University Libraries' (MUL) strategic planning process is nimble, with priorities identified annually. A critical element of the process is that inclusive excellence is embedded into the plan. Last year, we determined that we could improve inclusion and diversity at MUL by creating a separate DEIA Strategic Plan. A workgroup was formed to identify DEIA goals and objectives and recommend initiatives to meet those goals. This session will explore inclusive excellence in MUL's strategic planning and the steps taken to create a separate DEIA Strategic Plan. This session will contribute to the larger discussion of inclusive excellence in strategic planning.
Global Engagement: Transnational Students' Voices and Higher Education
Priscilla Dzokoto and Gumiko Monobe
Universities and colleges in the United States encourage the presence of diversity and equity among their communities to promote healthy environments and retain a diverse and talented student body. Since 2012, the population of Transnational students, 1st to 2nd immigrant, refugee, migrant and international students in this presentation, has increased from about 900,000 to about 1,095,299 in size (Geary, 2016; Hanson 2022). As the number of transnational students increases, there are concerns about institutions' preparedness to serve this population best.
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Radical Hospitality to Engage, Educate, and Empower toward Social Justice
Room: Governance Chambers
Roundtable
Stephanie Danker, Zack Tucker, Reilly Powers, Jojo Peregrina, David Shuppert
Radical hospitality emphasizes creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all individuals, regardless of their background or status. It involves actively making people feel valued and respected. By creating a supportive environment that encourages individuals to share their voices and take action, radical hospitality can inspire people to become agents for positive change in their communities and beyond. This presentation will provide individual and collective perspectives of experiences working with radical hospitality through involvement with the Electric Root Festival, a community arts festival in Oxford, OH. Attendees will gain strategies for including radical hospitality in their own contexts.
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Fostering Multicultural Student Outcomes Through DEI and Student Success Partnerships
Room: 306BC
Workshop
Russell Morrow, Melissa Kulp
In many institutions, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is centralized, often limiting academic and student support units' notions that this work should also be incorporated into their individual operations. Recognizing this issue, leaders from our college's DEI and student success offices collaborated to create a foundational approach that integrates vision, strategy, and programming to accomplish holistic student outcomes. In groups, participants will learn about how presenters have created this collaboration and explore ideas for applying this strategy to their own situations. They will focus on integrating DEI into academic, social, emotional, and career-focused outcomes.
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Murmurs of a People
Room: Ballroom Balcony
Workshop
Ambre Emory-Maier
Dance can be used as a form of protest and activism. This session provides a viewing of excerpts from Chilean American Choreographer Michael Uthoff's ballet, Murmurs of A Stream or Reflejos del Arroyuelo. This ballet, whose music was once banned by the Chilean government, was implicitly created in response to the 1973 Chilean Coup d'etat. In this work, Uthoff delves into the concept of a stream as the veracious witness to Chilean life. Participants will view a live performance of excerpts from Uthoff's work, and participate in dialogue and movement around questions that examine bodies, oppression, resistance, and celebration.
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Networking Hour
Room: 317
Latino Networking Caucus (LNC), Spanish and Latine Student Association (SALSA)
Wellness Break, 10:30 - 11:00am
Keynote Presentation and Luncheon, 11:00 - 1:30
Room: Ballroom
Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
Space is limited. Registration is required.
Doors open 10:30am
Session Block 4, 1:30 - 2:30pm
Reimagining Mentoring: Supporting Racially Minoritized Graduate Students and Faculty
Room: 306A
Workshop
Christa Porter
In this interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to consider and discuss how their positionalities influence advising and mentoring practices that impact racially minoritized graduate students and faculty. Participants will identify systemic barriers that perpetuate inequities and opportunities to reimagine mentoring in efforts to advance a critical praxis that enhances belonging for students and faculty.
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Sharing Power in the Classroom: Utilizing a Consent-Forward Framework
Room: 306BC
Workshop
Courtney Brown
In this practical (and hopefully fun!) workshop, faculty, students and staff will explore collaborative tools that are consent-forward, and trauma informed, including: how to build in and on consent, communicate, respect, and validate boundaries, increase cultural competency, and ultimately, create a space of mutual learning.
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Oral Session
Room 310
LGBTQ Curricula and Discourse Bans Across the U.S.
Ren Davis
With the rise of anti-LGBTQ bills looking to ban LGBTQ curricula and discourse in U.S. public schools, it is important to discuss what this will impact, why it is happening, and how we can stop it. This session will mainly examine the climate of LGBTQ curricula and discourse in the U.S., why this issue is important, and will propose ways this study could be implemented as institutional change for public schools in the U.S.
How to Develop Student Activism
Linda Piccirillo-Smith
Currently in Ohio, there is a movement to discourage student engagement and student activism by those who see activism as dangerous or 'indoctrination'. Contrary to those beliefs, students who learn to think critically, who are taught the facts of the historical past of our country, and who are given examples of what activism looks like can begin to see their own agency as activists. Two goals for this presentation are to present tools that can enhance students' critical thinking on issues related to social justice and to discuss the ways in which students can begin to see themselves as agents of change.
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Internal DEI Grants: Building Institutional Capacity
Room: Ballroom Balcony
Workshop
Krista McDonald, Cara Calabrese, Elizabeth Kerr
Since 2021, Miami University Libraries (MUL) has provided the opportunity for staff to apply for funding for projects that promote inclusive excellence through an internal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant program. This program is an opportunity for the MUL community to seek funds for DEI-focused projects that are not regularly funded through departmental budgets. This workshop will share the structure, format, and best practices of MUL's DEI Grants; provide participants with an opportunity to identify projects they would pursue if their institutions had a similar program; and allow participants to brainstorm how they could adopt similar programs at their institutions.
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Networking Hour
Room: 317
Women of Color Collective (WOCC), Sister Circle
Session Block 5, 2:45 - 3:45pm
Using an Anti-Racist Framework to Inform Co-Curricular Program Design
Room: 306A
Workshop
Cicely Schonberg
This interactive workshop will explore the ways in which higher education practitioners can use an anti-racist framework to guide the design and implementation of their co-curricular programming. After a brief presentation of strategies for developing an anti-racist framework, participants will have the opportunity to share their own strategies and examples. Participants should gain an understanding of how an anti-racist framework can inform programming decisions to support students' well-being and sense of belonging.
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Supporting Under-Represented Students in the Classroom: Strategies and Challenges
Room: 306BC
Workshop
Kim Hahn, David Hahn, Ja-Young Hwang
Under-represented groups of students, such as low-income, minority, and first-generation students, face a number of challenges that can impact their academic performance. These challenges may include limited access to resources, lack of academic preparation, and bias from teachers and peers. In this workshop session, we will explore strategies for supporting under-represented students in the classroom, as well as the challenges that may arise when implementing these strategies. Our aim is to create a space for participants to share their experiences and ideas for creating a more inclusive and supportive learning environment for all students.
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Oral Session
Room: 310
Identity-Conscious Leadership & Supervision
Talea Drummer-Ferrell
What does it look like for higher education professionals to be their true, authentic selves in the workplace? Elliott, Desai, and Brown (2021) share, "supervision can be a powerful and effective tool for creating an environment centered on equity, justice, and liberation" (p. 53). As such, applying the identity-conscious supervision model allows a fluid, open, and transparent supervisory relationship to flourish in the world of work. In addition, "identity-conscious supervision practices creates opportunities for individual conversations regarding identities" (Brown, Desai, & Elliott, 2020, p. 9), thus allowing staff to feel empowered in sharing their identities with colleagues and students alike.
Fostering Racial Literacy in White Students
Elizabeth Kenyon
A crucial component of reimagining our academies is ensuring that all members are developing their racial literacy. This session explores how white undergraduate students' racial literacy develops as a way of considering how instructors can intentionally develop racial literacy in their courses. Ideas include the importance of explicitly teaching about structural racism and its continued impact, creating opportunities and supporting students in critically reflecting on how racism has impacted their lives and the lives of their family, incorporating current events in courses, creating classroom spaces of vulnerability and courage, and shifting agency for learning onto the students.
We Need to Survive: Young Researchers and Epistemological Racism
Chengyuan Yu
This duoethnographic study reports on the dialogical reflection of two Asian young researchers' experiences of surviving in the current neoliberal higher education context. One researcher holds a doctoral degree from an Asian university and is pursuing a second doctoral degree in the US, while the other researcher received his doctoral degree from a British university and is currently working at an Asian university. Both young researchers attempted to challenge neoliberalism and epistemological racism, but ultimately found themselves surrendering to accept this reality. This presentation intends to invite the audience to understand and challenge these two Asian young researchers' paradoxical experiences as they negotiate their scholarly identity in their respective contexts.
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Diversity Audits: Bringing Inclusive Excellence to the Library
Room: Ballroom Balcony
Workshop
Krista McDonald, Cara Calabrese
A diversity audit is a tool used by libraries to analyze collection data to ensure we include a wide variety of points of view, experiences and representations within our collection. Rentschler Library at Miami University Hamilton has completed a diversity audit of its children's and young adult book collection. In this session, we will discuss the importance and complexity of conducting this type of analysis, how we have administered our review, our next steps, and how this fits into our broader DEI strategic plan.
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Racial Equity Workshop
Room: Governance Chambers
Workshop
Takeia N.K. Howard
Anti-racism work requires sustained, proactive education and engagement as well as systemic, intentional efforts at micro- and macro-levels. We will learn about our responsibilities in racial equity and how to prevent racism. We will discuss how to identify racist behaviors both in ourselves and in others and how to counter and dismantle such behaviors. The workshop will also provide tools and strategies for having conversations around racism and how to prevent, stop, and unlearn racial prejudices.
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Networking Hour
Room: 317
Pan-African Faculty and Staff Association (PAFSA), Black United Students (BUS), Anti-Racism and Equity Institute (AREI)
Closing
Room: Governance Chambers
- 4:00 - 4:30