Theme for 2024: Courageous Conversations
Dates and times:
Tuesday, June 11: 9:30am-4:30pm
Wednesday, June 12: 9:30am-4:30pm
Thursday, June 13: 9:30am-2:00pm
Location: 43 Hawes St, Brookline.
Sessions will be held in Room 301
Lunch will be held in Room 222
Guest Facilitators
Jennifer Stephens serves as the Director of Academic-Residential Partnerships and Assistant Professor of Education at Elon University. An educator for more than 20 years and educational developer for 10, Jennifer has helped lead multiple initiatives centered around sustained dialogues, inclusive teaching and learning, living-learning communities, and high-impact practices at multiple universities, public and private. She holds a BA in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MS in Counseling from the North Carolina State University, and a PhD in Educational Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies from UNC Greensboro. Co-editor/author of Ignite: A Decolonial Approach to Higher Education Through Space, Place and Culture, Jennifer’s scholarship and teaching around culturally-responsive and critical place-based pedagogies are influenced by a justice-forward teaching philosophy that involves learning as a holistic endeavor that is reciprocal and extends beyond the classroom.
Laura M. Pipe, Ph.D., is the Interim Director of the University Teaching and Learning Commons (UTLC) overseeing campus-wide faculty development. She also serves as the faculty advisor for UNCG’s Native American Student Association (NASA) and is of Tuscarora/Haudenosaunee descent. In her role since 2015, Laura established and continues to foster a teaching and learning culture at UNCG that is grounded in inclusive and culturally responsive praxis aimed at collaboration, innovation, and student success. As an Indigenous educator, her teaching/professional praxis is firmly centered in fostering reciprocal learning relationships that emphasize our shared curiosities and responsibilities as lifelong learners and seek to disrupt the colonizing urgency of canon/academe. Her scholarly interests and work are rooted in decolonial praxis and focus on the Indigenous pedagogies and epistemologies of the Woodland Peoples of the east coast of Turtle Island; action sports (bicycle motocross, skateboarding, stock car racing) and the construction/consumption of public/private space; and Native and Indigenous traditions in sport and health. Laura actively teaches within the areas of sports sociology, kinesiology, sports studies, sports management, health studies, and critical methodologies. She is the co-creator of the Toward a Liberated Learning Spirit (TALLS) model for developing critical consciousness and has an active Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research portfolio. Her most recent work, Ignite: A Decolonial Approach to Higher Education through Space, Place and Culture (Pipe & Stephens (Eds), 2023; Vernon Press), brings together theory, practice, and acts of tender resistance to challenge colonized concepts of learning. Laura holds a B.S. in Journalism (Texas Christian University), an M.S. in Higher Postsecondary Education (Syracuse University), and a Ph.D. in Kinesiology (UNCG) with a post baccalaureate certificate in Teaching Sociology (UNCG).