Call for Proposals: Diversity, Learning, and Student Success: Voices Leading Change

Posted by Association of American Colleges and Universities on August 15, 2016

Diversity, Learning, and Student Success: Voices Leading Change

A Network for Academic Renewal Conference
March 16–18, 2017
Jacksonville, Florida
Proposals due Monday, September 12

The Association of American Colleges and Universities is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for AAC&U’s 2017 conference on Diversity, Learning, and Student Success: Voices Leading Change.

The conference will explore how the individual and collective voices of students, faculty, staff, and community partners can be catalysts for transformative campus and social change. Affirming that people will be the drivers of the institutional and structural transformation needed to support the success of today’s students and prepare them for unscripted challenges, participants will explore strategies for leading inclusive campus dialogues and strategic visioning that value and embrace diversity of thought, identity, and beliefs.

The conference will focus on key questions about individual and collective voice, as well as on related questions about institutional change, such as:

• What do students’ stories tell us about the work educators and community partners need to do to help create educational experiences that promote higher levels of learning and engagement?
• How do institutions value students’ cultural capital and lived experiences when working to advance student success?
• How do educators prepare students to be productive citizens in a diverse and inequitable society—and to advance the democratic ideals of our country?
• How are campuses designing curricular pathways and learning experiences that encourage students to be intentional and culturally responsive learners, and that address the barriers to student success?
• What does the intersection of diversity, learning, and student success mean for how institutions recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, administrators, and staff?
• How can campus climates evolve to reflect and to respect diverse perspectives and identities as vehicles for growth and improvement?
• We invite proposals that showcase evidence-based practices that reflect the conference theme and that can be adapted readily to a wide range of institutional types, including community colleges and minority-serving institutions.

Visit the Call for Proposals to find out how to submit a proposal to share your work at the conference.

http://www.aacu.org/meetings/dlss/2017/cfp

For more information, please call 202.387.3760, or write to Karen Kalla at network@aacu.org.