Mini Plenary — Questions to Encourage Curiosity, Connection, and Engagement with Katie Hyten To have robust, open-minded, healthy discussions, you have to ask the right questions. Questions about lived experiences, values, and tensions encourage rich, deep discussions of a topic, whether in the classroom or in the office. But they do much more. Great questions also invite authentic relationships, mutual understanding, trust, and a sense of belonging—all of which allow students and colleagues to take risks, make mistakes, collaborate in difficult moments, explore new ideas, and remain open to different perspectives. This session will help participants use questions to create trust, build mutual understanding, and deepen learning. As a result of this mini-plenary session, participants will: - Understand the power of questions to create deeper connections among people and to learning or work goals
- Learn to craft questions for a dialogic moment that help make conversations more personal, connected to content, and complex
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Workforce Workshop: Building and Supporting Neuro-Inclusive Cultures (repeating) with Andrea Bowens-Jones and Catherine Ashcraft This workshop will equip you with the knowledge and tools to foster a truly neuro-inclusive environment within your organization. We’ll explore what neurodiversity means in a professional context, moving beyond traditional understandings to embrace the full spectrum of human neurological variation. Agenda includes: - Define neurodiversity in the workplace: Neurodiversity and Mental Health
- Work Challenges for Neurodiverse
- Neurodiverse Workplace Strengths
- Benefits from Creating a Neurodiverse-friendly Environment
- Implement effective and respectful accommodations that foster a culture of understanding and support.”
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Playing the Long Game: Pursuing Equity-Minded Systems Change in Higher Education during Troublesome Times with Sandra Laursen Federal grant support for equity initiatives has been withdrawn, inclusive language and values are cast
as discriminatory, and many trusted institutions seem to be failing to meet the moment. At such a time,
it is daunting to know how to advance transformative change toward inclusion and equity in higher
education. And, at such times, it is even more important to develop our long game—that is, to think
strategically about systems and structures, both to limit backsliding on the progress made in more
positive contexts, and to avoid burning out the very individuals who were already doing the heavy
lifting. Drawing on research studies of ADVANCE Institutional Transformation projects and literature on
systems change, I will offer some ways to think broadly about the strategies that equity-minded change
communities have used so far and about how we might continue to pursue positive change in a volatile
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