NED Teaching and Learning Conference
September 26 – 27, 2024
In-Person or Online
A conference by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff.
Keynote Speaker
Ruthanne Soohee CrÄpo Kim
St. Cloud State University
Keynote: Emergent Strategies for Minnesota State
Emergent Strategies (2017) is a concept developed by Adrienne Maree Brown, a mixed-race, queer independent scholar who suggests that emergent discoveries in the natural and social sciences reveal that critical connections, not critical mass, are the underrecognized keystones to effect social change. Loosely, this means we do not have to seek high volumes of participants, working hours, or emails to effect change. Instead, we ask questions about the outcomes we want to model, inhabit, and generate in small spaces, allowing the transformation to change the interior and exterior of our lives. Inspired by the work of writer Octavia Butler, physicists Karen Barad and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, biologist-innovator Janine Benyus, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, poet-philosopher Ćdouard Glissant, and philosopher-activist Grace Lee Boggs, this keynote addresses Browneās radical contention that connection, done intentionally, can affect more social and academic transformation than mass in our classrooms, campuses, and communities.
Yet, how do we reconcile the lessons reverberating around us with our cherished values, long-held habits, and unique ecological-cultural milieus? What works on an urban campus may not work in a campus situated along the Eastern Riverās bluff, a campus cradled by the headwaters of the Mississippi, a community lodged among the pine trees of the North woods and waters, or a campus firmly rooted in the grasslands and farmlands of the plains. To honor the diverse communities across Minnesota, this keynote will generate creative space for participants to reflect and propose embedded processes to center emergent strategies in their classrooms, departments, and campuses. To carry on with Brownās recent work, this keynote will generate the capacity not to call one another out but to call each other into the labor and love of higher education transformation, cultivating ourselves and our students as organic intellectuals.
About the Conference
Minnesota State educators have asked for more opportunities to collaborate and share best teaching and learning practices across our colleges and universities ā and thatās what the Network for Educational Development (NED) is all about!
The 2024 NED Teaching and Learning Conference is an opportunity to gain inspiration, connect with your peers, reflect with others, and enhance your teaching and learning strategies and techniques.
Schedule
The NED Teaching and Learning Conference schedule can be viewed through Guidebook, accessible through the mobile app and desktop. Note that after the registration deadline on September 13, the schedule will only be available to those who have registered.
A condensed version of the schedule can be seen in the Agenda at a Glance.
In-Person vs. Online
Note that the welcome, keynote, student panel, and closing remarks will be available in-person and will be streamed online.
All other in-person concurrent sessions will be in-person only. Separate online-only sessions are available for online attendees.
Pre-Conference Workshop
A Pre-Conference Workshop is also available the morning of September 26. Learn more about the workshop, which focuses on theĀ Racial Equity AdvocatesĀ faculty development program that Minnesota State University, Mankato has initiated.
Learn More
Learn more on the NED Conference page.
Registration deadline is September 13, 2024.
