Speaking Engagements & Workshops
Sep 10, 2020
Kent State University Health Communities Research Institute & Brain Health Research Institute
Title - "Mentoring Our Students (and Ourselves) in a Global Crisis - A Mental Bandwidth Perspective"
Register here: https://kent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9WYgD8JA2IwWbYh
Aug 24, 2020
Kent State University College of Education, Health, & Human Services
All-College Session - "Our Brains - Primed for Justice"
Aug 13, 2020
Kent State University Division of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Shaping a Better Future Townhall - "Providing Support to Students of Color Outside of the Classroom"
Summer 2020
Kent State University Center for Teaching & Learning
Remote Instruction Workshops - "Remote Teaching in a Pandemic: A Bandwidth Perspective" - Review
March 2020
AAC&U Diversity, Equity, and Student Success Conference (New Orleans, LA)
Oral Presentation - "What REALLY Matters? Mental Bandwidth & Equity in Student Success" - Not delivered due to COVID-19 pandemic
September 27, 2019
Harper College (Palantine, IL)
2019 Assessment Conference Keynote - "Preserving Mental Bandwidth to Promote Equity in Success"
2019 Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference - "They're Not the Only Ones - Mental Bandwidth & Faculty Success"
August 21 & 22, 2019
Lehigh Carbon Community College (Schnecksville, PA)
2019 Faculty Convocation Keynote - "Enough Already! Mental Bandwidth & Student Success"
August 20, 2019
Kent State Trumbull Campus (Warren, OH)
Trumbull Kick-Off Keynote - "College Success: A No-Brainer?"
April 2019
Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
Workshop (co-presented with Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Preventing and Recovering the Loss of Bandwidth due to Poverty, Racism, and Other
Marginalizations"
March 2019
Kent State Tuscarawas Campus (New Philadelphia, OH)
Annual Faculty Retreat Workshop - "Brain Equity: How Students Lose Mental Bandwidth to Poverty, Racism, and Other Marginalizations"
January 2019
American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
Presentation (co=presented with Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Preventing and Recovering the Loss of Bandwidth Due to Poverty, Racism, and Other
Marginalizations"
September 2018
Kent State Center for Teaching & Learning Annual Conference
Workshop - "What REALLY Matters? Aligning Bandwidth Demands with Learning Objectives"
June 2018
2018 National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE) in US Higher Education (New Orleans, LA)
Workshop - "Are you sure that’s a good idea? Teaching Social Justice in Online Courses"
June 2017
2017 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in US Higher Education (Fort Worth, TX)
Workshop (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Enough Already! How Optional Extra Credit Assignments (and Other Common Pedagogical
Practices) Perpetuate Injustice"
January 2017
2017 Lilly Conference for Teaching and Learning (Austin, TX)
Presentation (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Poverty and Racism (& other ‘isms): Creating Institutional Environments in which All
Students Can Succeed"
March 2016
2016 Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Undergraduate Education Summit (Arlington, VA)
Presentation - "You Can’t Teach That Online: Online Teaching and Learning Strategies to Develop Affective Competencies"
January 2016
2016 Lilly Conference for Teaching and Learning (Austin, TX)
Workshop (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Creating a Learning Environment that Maximizes Cognitive Resources"
October 2015
2015 Conference of the International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Melbourne, AU)
Presentation - "You Can’t Teach that Online: Online Teaching and Learning Strategies to Develop Affective Competencies"
Sep 10, 2020
Kent State University Health Communities Research Institute & Brain Health Research Institute
Title - "Mentoring Our Students (and Ourselves) in a Global Crisis - A Mental Bandwidth Perspective"
Register here: https://kent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9WYgD8JA2IwWbYh
Aug 24, 2020
Kent State University College of Education, Health, & Human Services
All-College Session - "Our Brains - Primed for Justice"
Aug 13, 2020
Kent State University Division of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Shaping a Better Future Townhall - "Providing Support to Students of Color Outside of the Classroom"
Summer 2020
Kent State University Center for Teaching & Learning
Remote Instruction Workshops - "Remote Teaching in a Pandemic: A Bandwidth Perspective" - Review
March 2020
AAC&U Diversity, Equity, and Student Success Conference (New Orleans, LA)
Oral Presentation - "What REALLY Matters? Mental Bandwidth & Equity in Student Success" - Not delivered due to COVID-19 pandemic
September 27, 2019
Harper College (Palantine, IL)
2019 Assessment Conference Keynote - "Preserving Mental Bandwidth to Promote Equity in Success"
2019 Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference - "They're Not the Only Ones - Mental Bandwidth & Faculty Success"
August 21 & 22, 2019
Lehigh Carbon Community College (Schnecksville, PA)
2019 Faculty Convocation Keynote - "Enough Already! Mental Bandwidth & Student Success"
August 20, 2019
Kent State Trumbull Campus (Warren, OH)
Trumbull Kick-Off Keynote - "College Success: A No-Brainer?"
April 2019
Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
Workshop (co-presented with Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Preventing and Recovering the Loss of Bandwidth due to Poverty, Racism, and Other
Marginalizations"
March 2019
Kent State Tuscarawas Campus (New Philadelphia, OH)
Annual Faculty Retreat Workshop - "Brain Equity: How Students Lose Mental Bandwidth to Poverty, Racism, and Other Marginalizations"
January 2019
American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
Presentation (co=presented with Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Preventing and Recovering the Loss of Bandwidth Due to Poverty, Racism, and Other
Marginalizations"
September 2018
Kent State Center for Teaching & Learning Annual Conference
Workshop - "What REALLY Matters? Aligning Bandwidth Demands with Learning Objectives"
June 2018
2018 National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE) in US Higher Education (New Orleans, LA)
Workshop - "Are you sure that’s a good idea? Teaching Social Justice in Online Courses"
June 2017
2017 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in US Higher Education (Fort Worth, TX)
Workshop (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Enough Already! How Optional Extra Credit Assignments (and Other Common Pedagogical
Practices) Perpetuate Injustice"
January 2017
2017 Lilly Conference for Teaching and Learning (Austin, TX)
Presentation (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Poverty and Racism (& other ‘isms): Creating Institutional Environments in which All
Students Can Succeed"
March 2016
2016 Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Undergraduate Education Summit (Arlington, VA)
Presentation - "You Can’t Teach That Online: Online Teaching and Learning Strategies to Develop Affective Competencies"
January 2016
2016 Lilly Conference for Teaching and Learning (Austin, TX)
Workshop (co-presenter: Dr. Cia Verschelden) - "Creating a Learning Environment that Maximizes Cognitive Resources"
October 2015
2015 Conference of the International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Melbourne, AU)
Presentation - "You Can’t Teach that Online: Online Teaching and Learning Strategies to Develop Affective Competencies"