The following programs have received funding as part of the "Envisioning the Perfect Public University" initiative. All events were delayed due to COVID-19 concerns, which unfortunately caused the complete cancelation of some events. This list retains all awardees, including those whose programs were canceled.
The Academy as a Contemplative Practice: A Whole/Holistic Approach to Research, Teaching, and Service
Reading Group: October 8, 22; November 5, 19, 7:00 p.m.
How do we create an IU that is not only bold, but also intentional, dynamic, adaptive, interdependent, and transformative? (from Adrienne Marie Brown, 2017, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds). Is it possible for “…a group of people to theorize to develop a set of agreements to guide a transformational change” within the university, one that is predicated on wholeness? (from Laura Rendón, 2009, Sentipensante (sensing/thinking) pedagogy: educating for wholeness, social justice, and liberation).
Join The Graduate Mentoring Center and special guests to explore Rendon’s core question: “What is the experience of creating a teaching and learning dream (pedagogic vision) based on wholeness and consonance, respecting the harmonious rhythm between the outer experience of intellectualism and rational insight, emotion, and awareness? (2)” We invite you to read Sentipensante with us (October 8 and 22, November 5 and 19) in preparation for Dr. Rendon’s visit and for a longer conversation about how to transform higher education.
Speakers:
David Robinson Morris, September 23, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
Melissa Carter, October 28, 2020, 3 p.m.
Laura I. Rendón, November 4, 2020, 11:30 a.m. Registration closed.
This program has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
A series of conversations between university stakeholders at IU Kokomo and a team of researchers working to envision the future of public higher education in the United States. The conversations will create dialogue around central aspects of the work of a university (learning, research, public service) and aim to create significant dialogue to determine both the ideal for each criterion, and to determine the difference between the ideal and the actual. Each session will be conducted using design thinking activities which will enable the collection of critical information from university stakeholders and will enable collective reflection on shared experiences. With faculty and students, the activities will focus on the identification of the conditions that are required for learning and the situations where they (faculty and students) have had significant learning experiences. Other activities will be constructed to develop a collaborative understanding of student and faculty issues that affect learning. The session with administrators/staff will focus on the purpose of the university and the varied structures that contribute to or detract from that central purpose.
The Bloomington Faculty Council's Diversity & Affirmative Action Committee (daac), the IU Department of Theater, Drama & Contemporary Dance, and the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, (CITL) team with other collaborators on campus to address racism and inequity on campus through an applied theater program that supports faculty development. The program addresses the needs of faculty to be more responsive in teaching and cocurricular settings to respond with care and tact in conversations with students that arise from issues of bias, discrimination or disrespect of difference.
Using an applied theater model, the program involves a troupe of trained student actors who perform potential situations that faculty may confront with students that are challenging to navigate in the current cultural and political climate. As the actors portray various situations, a trained faculty/staff facilitator leads the faculty to participate through an interactive process where they may practice engaging different responses, prompts and outcomes. The program will be a low risk, high impact, safe space for faculty to practice how to engage and direct critical conversations that arise in instructional settings with their students. Often faculty may not have expertise or confidence in addressing issues of intolerance within their own line of research and scholarly achievements. The program will be filmed to provide content for later development of an online non-credit-bearing course available to all faculty in IU Expand or the Canvas Commons.
September 17, 2020
6:00–8:00 p.m.
This event will take place via Zoom. Registration closed.
This program seeks to address the question "what should the IUPUI School of Education, in deep collaboration with local public schools and the urban community, do to create equitable schooling?" Dr. Julian Vasquez-Heilig, Dean of the College of education at the University of Kentucky and a renowned scholar of educational equity, will visit IUPUI to assist in conversations with the university and Indianapolis communities. There will be two sessions, one within the Indianapolis community and university stakeholders and one with School of Education faculty and staff. Prior to the session, three community groups will be contacted to each develop a brief response to the central question. At the session, the community groups will share their responses, and Dr. Vasquez-Heilig will offer remarks. Groups will move to break-out rooms to dialogue about the interactions and develop followup critical questions (30 minutes). The session will conclude with a facilitator taking comments/questions from the audience.
Due to the reduction in resources caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and President McRobbie's announcement of an initiative aimed at addressing this issue, the Bicentennial Office decided it was best to consolidate resources on this topic with the Office of the Provost.
In order to better understand issues of racial justice and inclusion in higher education today, this program will consider a past historical moment related to race and exclusion. This event will feature a conversation with Dr. Greg Robinson, a renowned expert on Japanese American wartime internment, and will focus on Japanese American internment broadly as well as connections to education and university practices. Participants will then analyze primary documents that capture university practices during WWII in regard to Japanese American enrollment with the goal of reflecting on the decision-making processes and their related moral and ethical components. A brief lecture by Eric Langowski, an expert on IU’s history regarding Japanese American students during WWII, will also be offered about IU’s historical practices and present day implications.
November 18, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Registration closed.
As the number of students learning online increases, elearning tools are generating massive amounts of data. Educational technology is providing opportunities for rigorous research to help us understand, improve, and optimize learner experiences and outcomes. Join us to hear bold visions of how research at the nexus of psychology, technology, and education will accelerate student learning in the 21st century.
Speakers:
Dr. Danielle McNamara, Arizona State University, Director of the Science of Learning and Educational Technology (SoLET) lab
Dr. Dan Schwartz, Stanford University, I. James Quillen Dean of the Graduate
School of Education
Panel Discussion:
Kumar Garg, managing director of Schmidt Futures
Amy Baylor, NSF program director for Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL), lead program officer for NSF’s program in
AI-Augmented Learning
Mark Schneider, director of the Institute for Education Sciences (IES)
The book, “Long Walk out of the Woods,” written by IU School of Medicine alum, Dr. Adam B. Hill, will open up delicate conversations about substance use and mental health in a way that will hopefully be conducive to people feeling supported in their own personal journeys. Books will be provided to the first two hundred participants who register for the event. An identified campus representative will assist staff and faculty from the IU Interprofessional Practice and Education Center in leading the book discussions. After the completion of discussions, Dr. Adam B. Hill will speak via a live stream to the IU campus communities.
The book read is from September 14 to October 8. Students, faculty, stakeholders, and/or community partners will convene in small groups to create deep and enriching conversations throughout the readings. Upon completion of the book read, a Forum with Dr. Hill will be held via Zoom on October 15 from 12:15–1:15 pm. More information to follow.
We ask for everyone to please register for one of the virtual group sessions either on Mondays and Thursdays from 5:00–6:00pm ET or Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00–1:00pm ET. Once registered, a copy of the book Long Walk out of the Woods will be mailed to you OR you can collect your copy at the Office of Student Affairs on the IUPUI campus, Campus Center at Office #350 located on the 3rd floor.
Event canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
The IUPUI Open Science Coalition will hold a half-day workshop on the theme of “Open By Design: A New University Model.” This program will include a lecture by Dr. Erin McKiernan, who wrote a 2017 article for PLoS: Biology titled "Imagining the 'open' university: Sharing scholarship to improve research and education." Her article primarily discusses the benefits and challenges of creating an open university in the twenty-first century, in addition to providing low-cost solutions to the challenges she sees. McKiernan is an internationally known open scholarship advocate, in addition to being a highly successful physicist. We intend to bring students, faculty, and staff together using a round-table discussion forum to find innovative ways that open ideas can be used to enhance university life. These include open science concepts such as research transparency and reproducibility, as well as broader open scholarship concerns regarding open textbooks and open access to journal articles. The world of academic research is changing rapidly, and we hope that this workshop and lecture will encourage attendees to envision a university that seeks to inherently create and benefit from open scholarship.
August 19, 2020
The rapid development of new technologies and artificial intelligence portends a new future for old age and for care work. Can we manage this human-computer relationship in such a way as to assure the quality of life for old people and their care workers and avoid substituting machines for human caring? Yes, if we inform the development of new technologies with a deeper understanding of the experiences of the aging and care working experiences.
This symposium will pair expert presentations that educate the audience about current and future technologies and a structured discussion about the impact of, needs for, and design of those technologies for home care and assisted living. Select participants will take part in follow-up workshops designed to bring together careworkers, stakeholders, and researchers in dementia care.
Registration closed
This program has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
Thoughtful engagement with issues of freedom of speech and expression, diversity and inclusion, and academic freedom must be high on the agenda of the bold university of the twenty-first century. Freedom of inquiry and the ability to pursue even controversial and unpopular ideas are central to a great university. Public universities also have a constitutional obligation not to censor or punish faculty or student speech and expression on the basis of its content. At the same time, our public universities have become stronger and more socially relevant by recognizing the value of a diversity of voices, and the obligation to care about the dignity, safety, and well being of *all* who teach and study on our campuses.
This program will take the format of a symposium, with a nationally prominent keynote speaker and two panels drawn from faculty, administrators, and students. All parts of it will be open to the campus community and the general public.
