LTE Speaker Series: Dr. Loneke T. Blackman Carr, RD
LTE Speaker Series: Dr. Loneke T. Blackman Carr, RD
“Nutrition & Health Disparities: Cultivating Wellness and Success through Research”
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Virtual event, please click here to register
Dr. Blackman Carr will be joining us to present on Nutrition & Health Disparities: Cultivating Wellness and Success through Research. She will share her perspectives as a health disparities scholar on health, wellness, and student success. She will raise her own personal experiences being underrepresented as an undergraduate and now a researcher to lift up strategies that may benefit our students.
LTE Speaker Series: Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez
LTE Speaker Series: Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez
"Mathematics, Passions, and Right Relations: How Identity Factors Into Our Work"
Friday, Feb. 18, 12 to 2 p.m.
Virtual event, please click here to register
Dr. Gutierrez is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning. In this talk, Dr. Gutiérrez will expand on how her life growing up around powerful womxn and activists taught her to channel her passions into her academic and life work. She uses the case of mathematics as an example of how we are taught to simply accept the stories we are told and how a deep grounding in ourselves can help us challenge those stories and write new ones.
UConn LTE Cultivate II
UConn LTE Cultivate II
Friday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Virtual event
The UConn LTE Cultivate workshop returns with a new slate of activities to inspire, develop, and empower all faculty and staff as Life-Transformative Education champions. Whether you’re an experienced LTE champion, just getting started, or simply curious, you are welcome to join colleagues to engage in conversation and brainstorming to activate LTE principles throughout UConn. The half-day workshop will include a wide variety of activities, including breakout sessions with a focus on topics including mentoring, advising, service learning, and DEI principles; wellness activities; and a keynote conversation with Dr. Amelia Parnell, vice president for research at NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Attendance will be capped, so make sure to register early.
Cultivate II Morning Session
Cultivate II Keynote Speaker Dr. Amelia Parnell
Tell Us Your Story: A UConn LTE Panel
Tell Us Your Story: A UConn LTE Panel
Monday, March 28, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Virtual event, please click here to register
Join us for this panel featuring UConn faculty and staff, sharing their experiences in infusing LTE principles into their interactions with students, from teaching practices to student mentoring and more.
Featuring Shardé Davis, Assistant Professor, Communication; Fany Hannon, Director, Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC); Micah Heumann, Director, Academic Center for Exploratory Students (ACES); and Hana Maruyama, Assistant Professor, History.
LTE at UConn: An Open Forum
LTE at UConn: An Open Forum
Friday, Dec. 10, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Virtual event, RSVP not required
If you require an accommodation to participate please email lte@uconn.edu.
What is LTE at UConn and how does it seek to transform the undergraduate student experience? All faculty and staff are invited to this forum to learn more about the work that has taken place so far and how individuals and offices can be involved in leading this exciting initiative forward.
LTE Speaker Series: Reshaping Student Success Through a Life-Transformative Education
LTE Speaker Series: Reshaping Student Success Through a Life-Transformative Education
Dr. Tadarrayl Starke, Associate Vice Provost of the Institute for Student Success, University of Connecticut
Thursday, October 21, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Virtual event, RSVP not required
If you require an accommodation to participate please email lte@uconn.edu.
For over 20 years, Dr. Tadarrayl Starke has been committed to student success, with an emphasis in serving students traditionally underrepresented in higher education like himself. At the University of Connecticut, he serves as Associate Vice Provost of the Institute for Student Success.
Dr. Starke has a Doctor of Education degree in Higher Education, Master of Science degree in Higher Education with a focus on Student Affairs, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in African American Studies. He also earned a Certificate in Institutional Research and a Certificate in College Teaching. Dr. Starke has over 15 years of work with retention and academic support programs for students in a higher educational setting, both at the community college and 4-year university levels. In total, he has over 20 years of programming experience in educational access, equity, and success in higher education.
LTE Speaker Series: A Discussion with Dr. Pam Eddinger
LTE Speaker Series: A Discussion with Dr. Pam Eddinger
Friday, April 9, 9 to 11 a.m.
Virtual event, RSVP not required
If you require an accommodation to participate please email lte@uconn.edu.
Pam Eddinger is president of Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), the largest of 15 community colleges in Massachusetts. Dr. Eddinger began her tenure at BHCC in 2013 and previously served as president of Moorpark College in Southern California from 2008.
Dr. Eddinger’s service in the Community College movement spans more than 25 years, with senior posts in academics and student affairs, communications and policy, and executive leadership. Dr. Eddinger serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), GBH Boston, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Foundation (TBF), the Massachusetts Workforce Development Board, the Boston Private Industry Council, Achieving the Dream (ATD), the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU). Dr. Eddinger was honored in 2016 by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Barnard College and her master’s and doctorate in Japanese Literature from Columbia University.
LTE Speaker Series: Panel on Transformational Learning
LTE Speaker Series: Featuring a Live Panel Discussion on Transformational Learning at UConn
Friday, February 12, 9 to 11 a.m.
Virtual event, RSVP not required
If you require an accommodation to participate please email lte@uconn.edu.
UConn’s Life-Transformative Education Task Force is pleased to announce a live panel discussion on transformational learning at UConn. Sessions for Spring 2021 will focus on issues such as creating equitable faculty advising structures, faculty-staff cooperation, and building inclusive experiential learning opportunities in the classroom.
Panelists include:
- Oscar Guerra, Department of Digital Media and Design
- Caroline McGuire, Enrichment Programs, Office of Undergraduate Research
- Fiona Vernal, Department of History
- Julia Yakovich, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
- Steve Zinn, Department of Animal Science
LTE Speaker Series: Dr. Frank Tuitt, Realizing a Life-Transformative Education in Challenging Times
Realizing a Life-Transformative Education in Challenging Times: Implications for Making Excellence Inclusive at UConn
LTE Speaker Series: Featuring Dr. Frank Tuitt, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at UConn
Friday, November 13
9 to 10 a.m., virtual event
UConn’s Life-Transformative Education Task Force is pleased to announce the kick-off of its monthly LTE speaker series with a talk by Dr. Frank Tuitt, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at UConn. Dr. Tuitt arrived at UConn in 2020 from the University of Denver, where he was a faculty member and Chief Diversity Officer from 2015-19. Dr. Tuitt will speak on how to ensure that the values of LTE – identity, agency, and purpose – are available to all students, particularly students of color.
Sessions for Spring 2021 will focus on issues such as creating equitable faculty advising structures, faculty-staff cooperation, and building inclusive experiential learning opportunities in the classroom.
Cultivate Workshop, September 25, 2020
CULTIVATE - Life Transformative Education
A workshop to inspire, develop, and empower Life-Transformative Educators at UConn
Friday, September 25
8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., virtual event
Email lte@uconn.edu for more information.
On September 25th, the University of Connecticut hosted more than 150 faculty and staff from all corners of our sometimes disconnected University (14 schools and colleges spread across five regional campuses) in a day-long program of ideation and conversation around issues of life-transformative education. Titled “Cultivate,” the event served to introduce LTE to key stakeholders at the University and spur them to future engagement and involvement in UConn’s LTE efforts. Facilitated by culture change professionals from The Design Gym, Cultivate included a mix of short, intensive working sessions that put participants into more than 20 small breakout groups and large plenary sessions led by UConn President Tom Katsouleas and UConn Provost Carl Lejuez. The event concluded with summary remarks by CLTE Steering Committee Chair, Rick Miller. Along the way, the assembled brain trust collected more than 2500 individual ideas for promoting life-transformative education at UConn.
Cultivate was guided by two principles. The first was “Listening Louder.” Instead of bombarding participants with external ideas, Cultivate aimed to use the event to bring together already life-transformative educators – the people already doing the necessary work – and challenge them to think about how to extend and scale their practices to the entire university community. The primary role for higher administration in the Cultivate event was to listen and learn. The second was “Empowering Ideas.” For those portions of the program that were less participatory (for example, Rick Miller’s talk), speakers were encouraged not to lecture, but to provide scaffolding ideas that could help the grassroots community realize its own vision. The goal was that this initial cohort of life-transformative educators would leave Cultivate excited at the possibilities for expanding their work at UConn and for spreading their approaches to their peers.
Cultivate was intended as the kick-off for UConn’s LTE efforts over the course of the academic year, which will include a monthly speaker series; a series of “rapid response” projects proposed by faculty and staff and designed to respond to opportunities to extend LTE at UConn as they emerge; and continued research, assessment, and outreach work by UConn’s LTE Task Force