ABSTRACT. As we take time to reflect and process yet another school shooting, we as educators are in a place of asking the “why” behind school shootings. What are the positions of higher education faculty in the current mass shooting debate? This workshop will offer educators an opportunity to explore their “why” and possible roles as educators in this national crisis. Specifically, the role mental health of students, educators in training, and educators will be explored. The goal of the workshop will be to help educators process their own emotional and mental thoughts/feelings regarding school shootings while also identifying professional roles and responsibilities as educators and agents of change.

ABSTRACT. In-person mentorship workshop

Theme 1: Roadways in Academia

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ABSTRACT. Session 2: Surviving the Tenure Track Process (Panel) (Virtual)

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ABSTRACT. A 3-hour pre-conference workshop with Planned Parenthood, Texas Rising, 2022 Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, and La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) activists that will address the impact for BIPOC women and LGBTQ+ youth of the overturn of Roe v Wade, the actions they are pursuing and how we-all could be engaged.

ABSTRACT. This preconference workshop will examine how epistemic injustice and ignorance connect to the deep societal fractures, including Black Lives Matter, COVID, and how we frame stories for the next generation. The notion of ignorance or the “ignorant” figures prominently in these fissures as one side of the political spectrum views the other through an ignorance lens, i.e. those deemed unknowing. Of importance, we revisit critical race, feminist, queer, and social reproduction theorists who have analyzed different forms of oppression. Building upon this work, we provide frameworks or maps of epistemologies of ignorance, ones we believe provide particularly helpful analytical tools for education fields in general and curriculum studies in particular.

ABSTRACT. Session III: Publishing after your Dissertation (Workshop) (Virtual)

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