Wednesday, June 25
2:30pm - 3:30pm ET
1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
11:30am - 12:30pm PDT/MST
1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
11:30am - 12:30pm PDT/MST
These concurrent sessions will take place in different Zoom rooms.
Session Description
Opening reflection and share (multiple ways to participate, including text, speech, and collaborative document).
Brainstorms of benefits and drawbacks.
Proposal of taxonomy categories by presenter and participant comments/annotations.
Analyze two scenarios of guest speaker/facilitator events using the taxonomy.
Collaborative brainstorm of potential guidelines for these types of events.
Key Takeaways
Reflect on some of their own experiences with guest speaking and or facilitation within a CTL (this could be hosting guest speakers/facilitators, or being a guest speaker/facilitator).
Identify some of the benefits of these activities, some of the drawbacks, and some ways to address the drawbacks or inequities inherent in these activities.
Co-develop a taxonomy of guest speaker/facilitator events to determine possible purposes and outcomes of these activities.
Propose some guidelines for guest speaker/facilitator events in CTL to maximize respect for participants, campus staff, and the guest, and clarify outcomes and assessment of the event.
Session Description
In this session, participants will learn about and discuss case studies in which transdisciplinary approaches addressed resistance, complex problems, and equitable community. We will ask each participant to identify a problem at their home community that might better be addressed through a transdisciplinary framework. And we will lead a mapping exercise that invites participants to consider the partners and communities that might make addressing the identified problem more sustainable and contextual.
Key Takeaways
Discuss transdisciplinarity as a process that addresses resistance in higher education.
Identify complex problems in their higher education environments that might better be addressed by transdisciplinarity.
Map the communities within and beyond the higher education context that will be critical partners in sustainably addressing the shared problem.
Session Description
We will begin with a grounding activity to reflect on how participants have contributed to EDIA work without formal recognition, followed by a brief collective framing on the importance of naming unseen labor as an act of care and resistance. Participants will then choose from several breakout room topics (e.g., sustaining values-aligned work, navigating invisibility, finding community) shaped by their interests. Each group will engage in dialogue and shared reflection, with the option to contribute anonymously to a collaborative document. We’ll close with a full-group debrief focused on collective wisdom, affirmation, and imagining possibilities for sustaining this work—together. As a takeaway activity participants will be given access to a digital archive document for ongoing collaborative engagement.
Key Takeaways
Name and Validate Unseen EDIA Labor: Participants will identify and reflect on the ways they contribute to EDIA work in educational development—even when it's unrecognized or informal—and share language to name this labor meaningfully.
Build Community and Solidarity: Participants will engage in generative conversation with peers who share similar tensions, values, or frustrations, fostering a sense of connection, care, and mutual support.
Surface Collective Strategies for Care and Resistance: Through breakout discussions and collaborative documentation, participants will gather tools, ideas, and affirming practices for continuing EDIA work sustainably—especially when institutions fail to recognize it.
Envision What Support Could Look Like: Participants will reflect on what forms of recognition, safety, or support they would find meaningful—whether within or beyond their institutions—and explore how community care can fill the gaps when institutional support is absent.
Co-create a Living Archive of EDIA Wisdom: Participants can contribute stories, quotes, phrases, practices, or tensions that others can draw from after the session—creating a communal artifact.