Thrive Symposium: Adapting While Keeping What Matters

We invite you to submit a proposal for the upcoming “Adapting While Keeping What Matters” Faculty Thrive Symposium. The purpose of this year’s conference is to bring faculty together to explore, share, and advance strategies for navigating teaching and learning amid considerable institutional and environmental change in higher education. Through meaningful collaboration, reflective teaching practices, and intentional innovation, we aim to cultivate adaptable learning environments that uphold our core academic values. By learning to adapt purposefully while protecting core institutional values, we ensure our educational community continues to thrive.

Submissions are open from now through Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. Sessions will be held Nov. 11-12 in the Shepherd Union Building.

Presentation Themes

• Keeping What Matters: As higher education continues to evolve, some aspects of teaching remain timeless. This session type highlights enduring practices, values, and relationships that foster meaningful learning and support student success. Whether focused on curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, belonging, mentoring, or faculty well-being, these sessions explore what is worth preserving as we continue to grow and change.
• Adapting with Purpose: Change is inevitable, but meaningful adaptation is intentional. This session type features innovative approaches that thoughtfully respond to evolving technologies, student needs, institutional priorities, and the changing landscape of higher education. Whether redesigning curriculum, integrating AI or digital tools, rethinking assessment, or exploring new strategies for faculty well-being, these sessions emphasize adaptation that strengthens, rather than replaces, what matters most.

 

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