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Veterans Day, Thursday, November 11, 2021
To all veterans, we would like to extend our gratitude for your service to America on Veterans Day and always. Thank you!
Kathleen Bishop
Develop a consistent meditation practice for enhanced resilience, compassion, and empathy to increase focus, reduce stress, and build positive relationships with colleagues and students.
Audience: All Conference Attendees
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Beth Lee
Creating a positive and encouraging classroom environment can have a direct impact on a student’s learning success (Chick, 2010). If a student is expected to learn, the student has to first feel the learning environment is safe and encouraging. Creating an effective classroom climate involves student and instructor cooperation to create a positive and inclusive learning atmosphere together (YALEPCTL, 2021). This presentation will explore research and strategies to develop student social presence, an inclusive classroom, and advocate for individuality and diversity for student learning. We will look at quick mindfulness strategies in the form of ice-breakers and anxiety diffusers. In addition, we will look at how the course structure of CM107: College Composition I utilizes concepts to create an inclusive and positive learning environment for students. Finally, we will also explore great takeaways to encourage social presence and to create an inclusive community and an empowering global classroom climate.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty, Staff, Students/Alumni
Track: Student Focus
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Suzanne Gellens and Lois Wachtel
This workshop will examine the communication between the professor and student. The professor will promote learning and build relationships to motivate students and encourage participation in an interactive way. The presenters will present a large variety of resourceful ways to engage students in the course material. Student performance can be enhanced using icebreakers, polls, games, and virtual field trips. The focus is to break the monotony of reading, posting, answering questions, and tests, varying the presentation of information to keep the students alert, interested, and focused on the topics. Attendees will get to practice some of these fun activities.
Audience: Faculty
Track: Classroom Foundations
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Bridget Rivera
This workshop will assist participants in developing culturally competent leadership skills. In order to increase the recognition and implementation of culturally sensitive and effective leadership strategies the focus of the workshop will be on self-awareness. A Personal Identity Model will be used as the educational tool to learn how one’s identity dimensions inform worldview, and thus how we lead. The main identity dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, religion/spirituality, socio-economic status, and ability/disability will be discussed in relation to how they inform worldview. Inclusive leadership strategies will be explored in the context of worldview, power, and the 7 main identity dimensions.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Employers
Track: Leadership and Organization
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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William Campbell
Linking a student to recognize career dreams and goals can help a performer to reimagine what they can be. Linking the performer to career opportunities through discussion and seminar can help a learner overcome an outdated paradigm providing more inclusion and diversity. Demonstrating opportunity by helping students achieve career dreams, and helping them fulfill lifelong ambitions by linking learning and credentials to achieving goals can be a winning plan. Serving as a faculty mentor and guide through the process can help students acquire that dream job going beyond simple teaching and lecturing but leading the experience to become a successful winning combination. Providing evidence of opportunity, matching a performer's background, experience, education, and course track can help the performer to realize their goal. Experienced professional faculty can help through the research, reference, resume, and interview process. Research will demonstrate that the process works. Performers have acquired high level positions.
Audience: Faculty, Students/Alumni
Track: Student Focus
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Annette Benson
If one googles phrases such as the importance of intercultural communication or how to teach intercultural competence, the results take up pages and pages. A busy educator who wants to embed intercultural learning (ICL) or diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) activities into their classroom or program could spend hours looking for materials that meet their learning objectives. To make ICL resources more readily available, Purdue’s CILMAR: Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research, in collaboration with HUBzero™, has created a science gateway—the Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL)—which includes over 800 searchable ICL activities searchable by a wide range of parameters. Access to the HubICL is offered to interculturalists anywhere in the world at no cost. This session offers a tour of the HubICL with instruction for potential HubICL users on how to get started and best practices in embedding ICL into the curriculum.
Audience: Staff
Track: NextGen Learning
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Dora Finamore, E. Valerie Hewitt, Michelle M. Reinhardt, and Linda Watson
Educators throughout time have sought to understand why some students persist to overcome challenges, while others give up. We will present a theoretical exploration of this issue which supports multifactorial elements including grit, resilience, and a growth mindset as critical components for student success in online college courses, especially since COVID-19 began. Our presentation will include practical suggestions for classroom applications in online courses.
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students/Alumni
Track: NextGen Learning
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Gabrielle Blackman, Marjorie Ramos-Selcado, Harmony Groth, and Ryan Gulbranson
In this presentation, we discuss how the Psi Chi International Honor Society contributes to the future of global education. Psi Chi became an international organization in 1999 (Takooshian et al., 2019). Since then, Psi Chi chapters have emerged worldwide (e.g., Ireland, Egypt, and Russia) (Psi Chi, n.d.). We will summarize Psi Chi’s initiatives to expand internationally, promoting global education. We will share examples of what Psi Chi chapters worldwide do to promote psychological research and student success. We will also discuss Psi Chi’s international opportunities available to Psi Chi members, including opportunities for international research collaborations (Cramblet et al., 2019). Finally, several PG Psi Chi Executive Board members will share their experiences being officers of Psi Chi. The student officers will describe their roles in the organization and share their experiences with Psi Chi. The officers will also share how they hosted online events, fundraisers, and induction ceremonies this year.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty, Staff, Students/Alumni
Track: Student Focus
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Sara Wink
The practice of oral storytelling transcends time and culture. Oral storytelling provided countless societies the opportunity to pass important histories and traditions from one generation to the next. In this presentation, attendees will learn of oral storytelling's place in a diverse set of cultures. After discussing the present-day literacy crisis in the United States, it will be time to look to the future and see how the strategies of oral storytelling can not only help break the vicious low literacy cycle, but enhance the online learning experience as well.
Audience: Faculty, Staff
Track: Classroom Foundations
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
*Session canceled
Rebecca Herman
Servant Leadership in the Classroom: Supporting Inclusiveness and Empowerment. Servant leaders focus on the growth and well-being of others with the goal of helping the people that they serve to grow as individuals. This should be a primary goal of education and applying servant leadership in the classroom provides faculty with the opportunity of making a life-long difference in the lives of their students. Noland & Richards (2015) found that teaching from a servant leader perspective had a positive effect on both student learning and engagement. Hays (2008) discovered that servant teachers were generally more inclusive and had a greater appreciation for diversity. In addition, servant teachers assisted their students in having more confidence, feeling more capable, and more empowered. Strategies to implement this in our classrooms will be shared.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty
Track: Leadership and Organization
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Stephanie Thompson, Sara Wink, and Jan Watson
In the aftermath of 2020’s upheavals and the racial and political tensions they laid bare, many universities have emphasized DEI initiatives and assured students that they are seeking to make their institutions more equitable. As researchers explore whether diversity-themed courses improve students’ learning outcomes and better prepare them for success in a global workplace (Denson et al., 2020) and others examine how “embracing diversity” impacts a student’s experience in a composition course (McCoppin, 2018), Purdue Global’s composition department has been reshaping its CM220 course to encourage students to explore topics that impact diversity, equity, and inclusion in their own communities. This session focuses on how Linda Flower's intercultural rhetoric theory frames the debate about how to resolve community problems, highlights TED talks that have led to fruitful DEI discussions, and showcases topics our students have covered. We will also explore ways that faculty can collaborate to provide students with social justice topics and navigate hostilities that can arise when debating these topics in class.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty, Staff, Students/Alumni, Employers
Track: Classroom Foundations
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Jean Morrow, Sharon Morton, and Marney Vandemark
Global educators strive to help their students discover meaning and purpose through cross-cultural connection and inclusivity. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (1985) and his logotherapy perspective are the foundation for this presentation. Research reveals that connecting to meaning and purpose in life can enhance the ability to persist in spite of challenges (Graber, 2004). College students who report a high sense of meaning are far more likely to persist to graduation, while those with a low or unexplored sense of meaning are more likely to drop out (Makola, 2014). Instructors who encourage the exploration of meaning and purpose using principles of logotherapy will positively impact student engagement and retention, while increasing their own satisfaction. This presentation will provide a research-based curriculum that is aligned with Purdue Global’s mission to support working adults in the development of academic and professional skills they need to achieve their personal and career goals.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty, Staff
Track: Student Focus
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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Teresa Marie Kelly, Stephanie Thompson, Josef Vice, and Michelle Bianco
As research such as Knight (2020) notes, successful professionals must communicate effectively. Effective communication is inclusive, so inclusive communication must be a stated or unstated outcome across disciplines, but mistakes do happen. The key to creating effective communicators is to emphasize how to identify ongoing changes in acceptable language and how to react to mistakes and constructive criticism. As Parker and Trolian (2020) state, one way to meet an outcome in a college course is the interaction between students and faculty. When faculty passionately and appropriately share examples from popular culture of inclusive language evolution, it helps teach inclusive communication. This session focuses on teaching using popular culture examples of changing language, including famous errors in inclusive language and effective and ineffective reactions to criticism. The session will explore how to find examples and what to consider before using such an event as a teachable moment.
Audience: Higher Education Administrators, Faculty, Staff, Students/Alumni, Employers
Track: Student Focus
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Session
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