What’s Happening in the Classroom? Part 1: Talking to Each Other
Event description
- Academic events
- Campus life
- Free
- Open to the public
- Professional and career development
Is the classroom still a space for exploring ideas? Join us for this dialogue with faculty and students about what is working and what isn’t. We encourage attendees to participate by sharing their insights and concerns. Online attendees may join via ASU Live.
We will cover:
Self-censorship: Increasingly, students self-censor to avoid the disdain of professors and peers. Conversely, teachers fear they are being monitored by their students.
Reading: Are students doing assigned readings? Have faculty modified their course content to adapt to a decline in reading?
Communicating: We may be talking, but do we understand each other? Are our modes of expression moving past one another rather than meeting?
Dispersed time and labor: Are we distracted by too many different worlds impinging on each other? How are demands of work, school and personal life affecting each other — and how does this show up in the classroom?
We will discuss AI at the “What’s Happening” panel on September 23 and banned books during Banned Books Week at the "What's Happening" panel on October 7.
About the panelists
Krista Ratcliff is a Foundation Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She earned her doctorate from The Ohio State University (1988) and has been a professor and chair of English at Marquette University and Purdue University. Her research focuses on intersections of rhetoric, feminist theory and critical race studies.
Jenny Brian is Faculty Chair and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. She is also the head coach of ASU's Ethics Bowl team, which successfully secured a bid at the National Ethics Bowl Championships in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is the Director and coach of ASU's Regents' Cup team, which won the Regents' Cup in 2020, 2021 and 2023.
Aaron Mallory is Assistant Professor at School of Social Transformation. He is a black queer feminist who studies knowledge production, loss, and black queer health. As a black geographer, he researches how Black queer communities understand loss as a site from which to challenge process that write them out histories, health knowledges and geographies. He works to bring Black queer hidden or missing experiences into mainstream conversations.
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