Registration isn't mandatory for most sessions but it helps us provide enough snacks and chairs in the room. Please let us know if you plan to attend by Thursday August 10th. Didn't have the time or energy to pre-register? We'd love to see you anyway! (Seriously, don't let it be a barrier to attendance!)
Most 3I sessions are hybrid to best provide access to the SMCM community. On-site sessions are held in the CITL space (Library Annex) at SMCM, unless otherwise noted. Any room changes will be announced to participants by email and at conference sessions.
A Zoom link will be provided for those joining us remotely, sent by email to registrants and also provided through Inside SMCM.
Session Description: Dr. Green will discuss her work with place-based learning both at the University of Alabama (The Hallowed Grounds Project) and more recently at Davidson College.
Location: CITL or by remote login
About the speaker (taken from her professional website):
My work explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in pre-1920 African American history, Reconstruction Studies, and Civil War Memory.
My first book, Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016), explored how African Americans and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American education schools during the transition from slavery to freedom in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. My in-progress second book focuses on how African Americans remembered and commemorated the American Civil War and its legacy.
In addition to these projects, I have published an array of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and public history publications. In January 2015, I also created the Hallowed Grounds Project for exploring the history of race, slavery, and memory at the University of Alabama and the post-emancipation developments in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
I have several published and forthcoming publications drawing from this research. I am an active member of several professional organizations where I currently serve as the book review editor for the Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians and Digital Media Editor responsible for Muster, the blog for the Journal of Civil War Era.
Session Description: Leave the classroom walls behind and join us as we (re)discover our campus and its myriad educational opportunities. We have multiple tours to choose from, based upon your interests. Note: these tours will transition to indoor discussions if the weather is inclement.
Teaching with the Commemorative: join faculty who have already incorporated the Commemorative to the Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland into their classes, as they discuss their approaches and experiences.
Participants: Meet at CITL to begin the tour at 10:30am. Alternative meeting space if weather is inclement: CITL.
What's in A Name? SMCM Buildings and Their History: we walk past them everyday, but have you ever stopped to wonder why we name our buildings after certain people? What are their stories?
Participants: Meet at CITL to begin the tour at 10:30am. Alternative meeting space if weather is inclement: CITL.
Historic St. Mary's City (HSMC): at SMCM we have such a close and unique relationship with HSMC, but have you considered ways in which you can link your classes to this wonderful living history museum space? Join HSMC Director of Education Peter Friesen to learn about these potential connections.
Participants: Meet at Farthings Ordinary to begin the tour at 10:45am. Alternative meeting space if weather is inclement: St. John's Museum
Session Description: Join Dr. Julie King (SMCM Professor of Anthropology), Kelsey Bush (SMCM Community Affairs Liason), and Rico Newman (Elder with the Choptico Band of Piscataway Conoy) as they share their vast knowledge of our campus and local community to inspire ideas for place-based learning in your curriculum.
Location: CITL or by remote login
Session Description: Now that we've brainstormed ideas throughout the day, it's time to consider how to put these ideas into practice! Dr. Green will guide participants through this process, lending her expertise to our own context at SMCM.
Location: CITL (Note: this session is in-person ONLY)
Session Description:
Ensuring that faculty promotion and tenure policies are effective, fair, and equitable is important for faculty retention, satisfaction, and productivity. Yet, as in other areas of the faculty work environment, biases embedded in tenure and promotion policies can undercut the full participation of faculty from historically marginalized groups. In this keynote address, Dr. Dawn Culpepper will discuss the key equity issues that emerge in faculty tenure and promotion policies and processes and offer strategies for reforming tenure and promotion with equity in mind.
Location: CITL or by remote login
About the speaker: Dr. Dawn Culpepper is higher education researcher and practitioner focused on creating academic work environments where faculty members thrive. Her scholarship and practice examine strategies that higher education institutions can use to disrupt bias, enhance inclusion, equity, and representation, and foster organizational conditions where faculty members are fully recognized and rewarded for their work and satisfied and engaged with their workplaces.
Dawn is currently the Director for the University of Maryland ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence. In this role, she guides the strategic direction of ADVANCE, oversees its management and programs, and engages in translational research focused on faculty work environment and faculty development issues. Dawn is a nationally recognized researcher who has examined an array of faculty work environment issues, including tenure and promotion, hiring, and workload. Her work has been published in top education and diversity-related journals and has been funded by the National Science Foundation. She also engages regularly with campuses across the country as a workshop facilitator, consultant, and evaluator to give support to campus leaders, administrators, and others invested in change in the academy.
Session Description: Over the past academic year, SMCM was awarded an HHMI grant to critically reflect on teaching effectiveness at SMCM with a focus on the evaluation procedures used to measure this effectiveness. In this session we will present the results of a qualitative document analysis which looked at the ways in which the campus community speaks about and evaluates teaching effectiveness. Additionally, preliminary results from interviews conducted with faculty (50% participation rate) regarding their experiences in the tenure and promotion process will be shared. These findings will be used as guideposts in discussions around what the future of evaluation of teaching at SMCM should look like.
Location: CITL or by remote login
Location: This session is IN-PERSON ONLY at CITL
Session Description: In this guided facilitation session, we will consider the six values constructed from the HHMI self-study, and consider concrete examples of what they look like in practice. Small groups will tackle a value of their choosing, then report their recommendations to the whole group. These values are (in no particular order):
Value #1: Engages in Community
Value #2: Creates Challenge
Value #3: Builds Connection
Value #4: Acts as a Scholar
Value #5: Prioritizes Agency
Value #6: Designs Inclusively
Input from this session will be incorporated into future planning of faculty evaluation changes. Your voice matters! We hope you can join us.
Location: This session is IN-PERSON ONLY at CITL
Session Description: In this guided facilitation session, we will consider the three features of an evaluation system constructed from the HHMI self-study, and consider concrete examples of what they look like in practice. Small groups will tackle a feature of their choosing, then report their recommendations to the whole group. These features are (in no particular order):
Feature #1: Reduces bias
Feature #2: Multiple data sources
Feature #3: Formative vs Summative
Input from this session will be incorporated into future planning of faculty evaluation changes. Your voice matters! We hope you can join us.
Session Description: Conferences are often jam-packed with sessions and it can be hard to catch a minute to breathe and commune with your peers. We are holding this space so that you can pause amid the hectic schedule this week. Come by to socialize with colleagues, browse the CITL book collection, work on your syllabus, and/or ask CITL staff questions to help prepare for the upcoming semester. We will walk over to the PAC Recital Hall no later than 10:15am.
Sponsored by IDEAA!
NOTE NEW Location: PAC Recital Hall
Session Description (from their website):
FACTUALITY is a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience, that simulates structural inequality, in America.
Participants assume the identities of the characters above, encountering a series of fact based advantages & limitations based on the intersection of their race, class, gender, faith, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
PLEASE NOTE: This session is open to ALL members of the SMCM community and is an IN-PERSON event. It requires a SEPARATE REGISTRATION and is limited to the first 100 people.
Location: CITL or by remote login
1:00-1:30pm Student Metacognition (Dr. Nayantara Kurpad)
Metacognition refers to awareness about oneself. In the context of learning, we are interested in students’ metacognitive awareness. When students are asked to make predictions about their grades on upcoming exams, they are often inaccurate. Specifically, low-performing students show the greatest inaccuracies. The reasons behind this inaccurate prediction are not fully understood. In this research, we tested if variable past exam performance can be a reason for inaccurate predictions. This work provides practical implications to help low performing students improve their metacognitive accuracy.
1:40-2:10pm Inclusivity in Action: Using Identity Safety Cues to Improve Student Outcomes in Higher Education (Dr. Kristina Howansky)
Identity safety cues (ISCs) signal inclusion to students with marginalized identities, but it remains unclear which cues students feel positive about and whether broad ISCs work for students of varying stigmatized backgrounds. In this work, we identified differences in students' perceptions of their professor, sense of belonging, and academic outcomes when comparing an ISC course with a control course. Further, we identify which ISCs give students positive impressions of their instructor and test whether responses to ISCs differ among students, including students with minoritized racial, gender, sexual orientation, and neurodiverse identities. This work provides practical strategies for implementing ISCs in higher-ed classrooms and addresses potential challenges.
2:20-2:50pm "The female avengers of chemistry": Letters of advice from women in STEM (Dr. Gili Freedman)
The research is clear: women in STEM face a number of challenges and barriers, and while progress is being made, it is still a hostile landscape at times. But much of the research ignores a valuable source of information for how to support women in STEM: advice from peers. What advice do junior and senior undergraduate women in STEM offer to students starting their STEM majors? In this talk, I will describe research my collaborators and I conducted in which we asked women STEM majors across six fields to write letters to the younger STEM majors. I will provide information about the themes of advice that emerged and discuss how those themes can inform our teaching and student support.
Session Description: This session will discuss the current status of and future community desires to incorporate the Dwight Frederic Boyden Gallery and Collection into the classroom.
Location: CITL or by remote login
Session Description: Welcome back Kelvin to campus and learn about his plans as Director of Equity Programming in IDEAA, including what is happening in the DB Scholars Program.
Session Description: Welcome back Liz to campus and discuss ideas and questions related to transparent teaching and assessment.
Session Description: Generative AI threw higher education for a loop last year and the roller coaster continues as these tools are created and refined. Join us to find out the latest on this topic, with an eye toward classroom policies and ways to intentionally integrate it into your assignments and activities while still meeting your learning objectives.
Location: CITL or by remote login
Session Description: Haven't had time to delve into the latest generative AI? Here is your chance to play with multiple tools using the context of your own classes. In this session, we will work together as a community to explore generative AI capabilities and discuss ways to modify existing assignments in light of . Bring an assignment, activity or assessment that you think can be impacted by generative AI to focus your efforts.
Location: CITL or by remote login*
*Remote participants may not get the same experience and attention as in-person participants, but we will do our best!
Registration isn't mandatory for most sessions but it helps us provide enough snacks and chairs in the room. Please let us know if you plan to attend by Thursday August 10th. Didn't have the time or energy to pre-register? We'd love to see you anyway! (Seriously, don't let it be a barrier to attendance!)