Fall 2022 Professional Day Session Descriptors

       Session 1 (10:30 am – 11:25 am) 

LC 107: Engaging Students in Community Outreach - the Impact on Learning and the Community (Pr: Karen Townsend,Maureen Strauss) Presenters will discuss the rich community oral health promotion projects the dental hygiene students have been participating, and how collaborations with community partners can widen the power and impact of both student learning outcomes, and community health delivery.  Presenters will discuss the framework for such projects, funding seeking, and best practices for collaborating with community partners.

LC 109: Serving our students and engaging industry partners using a Learn and Earn model (Pr: Kate Sweeney) 
This presentation will outline the development and implementation of a Learn and Earn experience in our Middlesex Biotech Program. Strategies to engage students and industry as well as program outcomes will be discussed.

LC 206: Gender Inclusive Communication (Pr:Serrahtani Parrish, Emily Valenzuela) Participants will learn the importance of using gender-neutral language; both speaking and writing in a way that is non-discriminatory against a specific sex and gender.

LC 214: Real Talk:  Faculty discuss teaching and learning in the Hyflex modality (Pr: Roxanne McCorry, Daniela Loghin, Susan Bumbulucz, Jeanne Cronin, and Denise Marchionda) 
When preparing to teach a Hyflex course, Instructors need to pay attention to the pedagogical and technological considerations.  This workshop will be interactive and will demonstrate how to use the Hyflex equipment to engage the Learner.

LC 211: An Introductory Racial Healing Circle -Part 1 (Pr: Elizabeth Noel, Jessica Frost, Darcy Orellana)
 "Racial" is in our stories, yet race is often left at the door when we talk. Racial healing and relationship building is people work. The racial healing circle focuses on ways for all of us to heal from the wounds of the past, to build mutually respectful relationships across lines of difference that honor and value each person's humanity, and move us to build trusting intergenerational and diverse relationships that better reflect our common humanity. A racial healing circle is not a cure or an attempt to fix anyone. This is the first part of two part session. Participants should commit to attending both sessions.

LC 212: Employee Benefits Information (Pr: Lauren Hutchinson, Kathy DiRienzo) 
In this session Lauren Hutchinson/ Kathy DiRienzo will talk about all the employee benefits MCC has to offer.

LC 208: CyberSecurity 101 (Pr: Pramod Bhardwaj) 
Session participants will learn the basics to protect themselves and others from becoming victims of Cyber Crime

LC 302: The Ancestor as Institutional Foundation: how the African American novel and the figure of the Black ancestor might guide social groups transitioning into predominantly white institutional/social settings- Part 1 (Pr: Jonathan Bennett Bonilla, Fatima Al’Muntafik, Micaela Kimball)

In this workshop the question before us is – “beyond acknowledgements and apologies – how will knowledge and practice be reorganised after the ancestors have had their say?” This question is where Queer/Color critic Roderick A. Ferguson (Professor of American Studies at Yale University) ends his 2020 lecture at Wake Forest University titled, “On The Subject of Roots.”  The occasion for Professor Ferguson’s lecture was part of a broad effort across Wake Forest to investigate and publish its historical entanglement with enslavement, white supremacy, and structural racism, and the efforts among faculty, staff and students to reflect on, revise, and implement new forms of study to meet their moment. We will spend the first part of our workshop reviewing Professor Ferguson’s critique of the structural logics of antiBlackness in/as the institution, and reflections on the minoritized ancestor in the African American novel as a source/foundation for reorganizing our institutions. In the second session we will do group work outing/acknowledging the ways in which our institutions participate in structural logics of antiBlackness (among other harmful obliterating/negating/disappearing logics), and imagining how knowledge and practices at our institution might be reorganized differently after the ancestors have had their say. 



LF 203: Increasing Voting Rates and Civic Engagement Efforts on Campus (Pr:Kelly Bowes) 
We will review the current NSLVE data regarding voting rates of MCC students, plus share current plans to increase rates and boost civic learning and opportunities for civic engagement on campus, particularly as they relate to the equity agenda at MCC.

LF 204: Rethinking Teaching and Learning Scholarship through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion, Part 1 (Pr: Sally Quast, Jill Keller & Faculty Panelists)
First part of Three-Part Session. MCC SoTL Community of Practice has been engaged for the last three years in action research projects to support Equity and Inclusion in our classes and interactions with our students. The SoTL sessions will be interactive discussions on what the presenters have learned in their action research on Equity and Inclusion. Session I - Tools to Support Equity and Inclusion in Classes. For example, Dashboard, Texting/Remind, Navigate, etc.

  
LF 205: Professional Staff Experiences of Implementing Paul Hernandez's Real Talk (Pr: Winny Oyamo Twombly, Christine Bell, Beth Kelley, Jeffrey Tejada, Yohanka Tejada, & Kayla Caron)  A group of professional staff members will be sharing their experiences of implementing pedagogy of Real Talk [PRT or RT] within their roles at MCC. They are in the first of a 3 year training on how to facilitate a sense of belonging at MCC by using the Real Talk strategy. This will be an opportunity to hear about the benefits, challenges, and opportunities that they have experienced in the process of learning about and implementing PRT. It is also an opportunity to find out--what exactly is Pedagogy of Real Talk?

LF 206: Expanding Student Support and Community Partnerships through the AANAPISI Grant (Pr: Virak Uy) 

The Program for Asian American Student Advancement (PAASA) project has fundamentally changed the way that Middlesex Community College serves its Asian American, other minoritized, and low-come students. Based on an array of services that honor the cultural and community ties of the students while providing important basic supports, PAASA connects its Asian American students in a pathway approach that links enrollment decisions to strategies for addressing barriers that can limit persistence/retention, and ultimately, to building positive mindset, skills, and sense of belonging in college that is essential for succeeding in higher education.  While PAASA has helped to increase persistent, retention and graduation rate for Asian Americans in the past six years (2016-2022), there is still more work to be done. This presentation proposal will focus on the expansion of AANAPISI/PAASA foundational work and key strategies that has been created by the original PAASA/AANAPISI grant that focused on reaching and serving the significant Asian American population to improve their basic persistence, retention, and graduation/transfer outcome.

LF 213: Active Shooter Training- Part 1 (Pr: Patrick Cook, Daniel Martin)
Active shooter incidents are often unpredictable and evolve quickly. In the midst of the chaos, anyone can play an integral role in mitigating the impacts of an active shooter incident. MCC aims to enhance preparedness through a "whole community" approach by providing  products, tools, and resources to help you prepare for and respond to an active shooter incident. This presentation is two parts.  

LF 219: Supporting All Students to Be Empowered and Successful Learners: The Who, Why, What, and How of Disability Supports at MCC (Pr: Jaimie March, Edmund Dunn)
The Disability Support Services Office and MAICEI (Massachusetts Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Initiative) directors will provide information on some of the supports available for MCC students with documented disabilities. Additionally, the DSSO staff will walk through some scenarios and ensure session participants leave with contacts and resources.  The staff will also address some common misconceptions/challenges involving students just coming out of high school and answer some of the common/tough questions around supporting a student with disabilities.

LF 220: PDF Purging: How Reducing PDF Content On The Website Improves Content Quality and ADA Accessibility (Pr: Ellen Ricca) Are you a web editor for the college website, or do you produce PDF content for other purposes?  A proliferation of PDF's stored on the colleges website has a negative impact both on the accuracy of content we show the world as well as impacting our committment to accessibility.  This session will:  - provide an overview of learning resources and tools available to assist you in making documents and PDF's accessible, including how to gain access to the Campus Suite PDF remediation service. (suitable for anyone who creates digital content)  -demonstrate a process you can use to review, assess, and delete old PDF's or Word content safely on the college's website (suitable for college web editors). 


LF Assembly Room: Connecting the Dots: The President's Perspective on College Initiatives and the Strategic Plan (Pr: Phil Sisson)
The college's strategic plan should be a foundation for decision-making and priority setting for the college. This session will provide an overview of existing initiatives that are tied to the college's strategic plan and why they are so important to the future of Middlesex. 

        Session 2 (11:40 am – 12:35 pm) 

LC 107: What's Happening and New in Community Education? (Pr: Audrey Nahabedian, Judy Burke, Caitlin Campopiano, and Lauren Ellis) The session would cover overviews and discussion on the following topics.  First, a look at new and popular noncredit programs/certifications, in areas such as Health, IT, Management, ESOL/PAC, Personal Enrichment, College for Kids/Teens/Parents, and Tuition Waiver opportunities for faculty and staff.  Second, a look at existing noncredit to credit pathways. Last, a discussion on areas where noncredit programming could enhance credit programs.

LC 109: Who are our SUCCESS Scholars at MCC (Pr:Noreen McGinness Olson, Linda Thiem)  With the SUCCESS Scholars Program now fully staffed at the college, proactive advising, coaching, and mentorship activities has been put in place to provide more equitable support across targeted student populations. Learn about who our SUCCESS Scholars are, engage in story sharing with our students, and reflect on how MCC is doing in reducing barriers for our targeted student populations. This presentation will center student voices and highlight high-impact strategies for engaging with our scholars. 

LC 214: Online Learning at MCC: Where We Are and Where We Are Going (Pr: Matthew Olson, Roxanne McCorry, Daniela Loghin, Heloisa DaCunha) This interactive presentation will present data on student success in online learning post-COVID. The presentation will address current challenges as well as promising strategies for increasing success for all students. 

LC 211: An Introductory Racial Healing Circle - Part 2 (Pr: Elizabeth Noel, Jessica Frost, Darcy Orellana) 
"Racial" is in our stories, yet race is often left at the door when we talk. Racial healing and relationship building is people work. The racial healing circle focuses on ways for all of us to heal from the wounds of the past, to build mutually respectful relationships across lines of difference that honor and value each person's humanity, and move us to build trusting intergenerational and diverse relationships that better reflect our common humanity. A racial healing circle is not a cure or an attempt to fix anyone. This is the second part of a two-part session. Participants should be attending both sessions.

LC 212:  Online Purchasing from the Mass Higher Ed Consortium and E&I –  over 700 suppliers at discounted pricing (Pr: Christina Kelley) 
Learn how to navigate the eMarketplace, streamline request for quotes to multiple vendors, add items to your shopping cart and transfer to a department buyer for purchase, compare pricing and purchase from "on contract" vendors at a discounted price.

LC 208: MCC IT Service Desk - Self Help Support & Available Resources (Pr: Kevin Belfiore, Kevin Doherty) 
The presentation provides an overview of the day to day functions of the MCC IT Service Desk. We will explain our resources that are avaiable for the college community, including our Self-Help Portal.

LC 302: The Ancestor as Institutional Foundation: how the African American novel and the figure of the Black ancestor might guide social groups transitioning into predominantly white institutional/social settings - Part 2 (Pr: Jonathan Bennett Bonilla, Fatima Al’Muntafik, Micaela Kimball) 

In this workshop the question before us is – “beyond acknowledgements and apologies – how will knowledge and practice be reorganised after the ancestors have had their say?” This question is where Queer/Color critic Roderick A. Ferguson (Professor of American Studies at Yale University) ends his 2020 lecture at Wake Forest University titled, “On The Subject of Roots.”  The occasion for Professor Ferguson’s lecture was part of a broad effort across Wake Forest to investigate and publish its historical entanglement with enslavement, white supremacy, and structural racism, and the efforts among faculty, staff and students to reflect on, revise, and implement new forms of study to meet their moment. We will spend the first part of our workshop reviewing Professor Ferguson’s critique of the structural logics of antiBlackness in/as the institution, and reflections on the minoritized ancestor in the African American novel as a source/foundation for reorganizing our institutions. In the second session we will do group work outing/acknowledging the ways in which our institutions participate in structural logics of antiBlackness (among other harmful obliterating/negating/disappearing logics), and imagining how knowledge and practices at our institution might be reorganized differently after the ancestors have had their say. 



LF 203: ACE - Your Partner in Supporting Student Success (Pr: Beth Kelley, Lore Porter, Omar Aldulaimy, MCC Students)
Peer Tutors, SI Leaders, Embedded Tutors, BlackBoard Ambassadors – hear from our Student Leaders what they actually do in these roles and how they help promote student success. Learn about the impact peer tutoring and supplemental instruction have had on student persistence and retention at MCC, and discover the other outreach opportunities ACE offers to help your students progress towards their educational goals. 

LF 204: Rethinking Teaching and Learning Scholarship through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion, Part II (Pr: Sally Quast, Jill Keller & Faculty Panelists)  Second part of Three-Part Session. MCC SoTL Community of Practice has been engaged for the last three years in action research projects to support Equity and Inclusion in our classes and interactions with our students. The SoTL sessions will be interactive discussions on what the presenters have learned in their action research on Equity and Inclusion. Session II  - Revision of Course Content to Support Equity and Inclusion. For example, Syllabus Review. Content Review, Decolonization of the Curriculum, etc.
 
LF 205: Grading For Equity (Pr: Jan Arabas)
The point systems and scales we use to grade our students along with our policies around deadlines, retaking/redoing tests and assignments, and soft skills, can have a great impact on equity in our classrooms. Grading For Equity by author and consultant Joe Feldman examines these effects and offers concrete strategies for more equitable grading. In this workshop, which is based on Feldman's work, you can take a hands on look at how your own grading strategies impact your students and and come away with an action plan to move towards more transparent and equitable grading policies.

LF 206: Create a more equitable classroom with library resources (Pr: Jordana Shaw, Tracy Joyce; Kimberly Money Priddy, Ryan Green) Join the MCC librarians to learn ways you can supplement your course materials with free library resources to help make your classroom more equitable. This interactive session will cover how to effectively use unlimited eBook access, newspaper/magazines (avoid the paywall), streaming videos and more! 

LF 213: Active Shooter Training-Part 2 (Pr: Patrick Cook, Daniel Martin) Active shooter incidents are often unpredictable and evolve quickly. In the midst of the chaos, anyone can play an integral role in mitigating the impacts of an active shooter incident. MCC aims to enhance preparedness through a "whole community" approach by providing  products, tools, and resources to help you prepare for and respond to an active shooter incident. [NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part session. Participants must have attended part 1.] 

LF 219: Student Scholarships (Pr:Barbara Maglio, Gretchen Robinson and Sherri McCormack) This presentation provides recommendations on how to encourage students to apply for scholarships.  


LF 220: PDF Purging: How Reducing PDF Content On The Website Improves Content Quality and ADA Accessibility (Pr: Ellen Ricca) Are you a web editor for the college website, or do you produce PDF content for other purposes?  A proliferation of PDF's stored on the colleges website has a negative impact both on the accuracy of content we show the world as well as impacting our committment to accessibility.  This session will:  - provide an overview of learning resources and tools available to assist you in making documents and PDF's accessible, including how to gain access to the Campus Suite PDF remediation service. (suitable for anyone who creates digital content)  -demonstrate a process you can use to review, assess, and delete old PDF's or Word content safely on the college's website (suitable for college web editors). 

LF Assembly Room: Connecting the Dots: The President's Perspective on College Initiatives and the Strategic Plan (Pr: Phil Sisson) The college's strategic plan should be a foundation for decision-making and priority setting for the college. This session will provide an overview of existing initiatives that are tied to the college's strategic plan and why they are so important to the future of Middlesex. 

       Session 3 (2:00 pm – 2:55 pm)
 

LC 109: Mindfulness Meditation (Pr:Lynn Gregory) 
Enjoy some quiet and stillness during Professional Day This experiential session will give participants the opportunity to practice mindfulness with a 25-minute sitting meditation.  Prior to our sitting, we will briefly discuss some basic information about mindfulness meditation, including common myths, tips and strategies, and resources to support your practice.

LC 208: Middlesex Community College Budget (Pr: Allison Chambers) This presentation will provide a walk through the budget process from funding through spending.

LC 214: Mental Health Support for Students and Beyond: Christie Campus Health (Pr: Leonard Russ, Campus Christie)
Representatives from Christie Campus Health will provide information on how CCH will work to support students in need of mental health support. CCH, will also give details as to how they can impact the MCC community. 

LC 211: The Commonwealth Honors Program: Equity, Community, and Academic Excellence (Pr: Binnur Ercem, Kate Baker) This presentation and Q & A will showcase Honors courses, policies, and practices that focus specifically on equity, diversity and inclusion. By dispelling myths and building awareness, the CHP hopes to create more opportunities for students to lead, create connections, and become lifelong learners. Facilitators will also discuss the Commonwealth Honors Program’s role in increasing retention rates and creating pathways for students to transfer. 

LC 212:  P-Card How-To/Q&A (Pr:Stephen Costa) 
This will be a refresher of using BOA Works for p-card transaction processing, followed by a Q&A about p-card policy and procedures.

LC 206: Blackboard Ally & Accessibility (Pr: Joe Patuto & Dr. Katie Grennell)  Blackboard Ally is an accessibility tool designed to provide greater insight and traction related to improving accessibility in your Learning Management System (LMS). This presentation will begin with a high-level overview of Universal Design for Learning and its direct connection to accessibility and Ally. With the contextual foundation set, we will then share best practices and tangible recommendations for faculty to both create and sustain an accessible learning environment for their students. 

Guest Presenter Bio: Dr. Katie Grennell completed her PhD in American Studies in 2016, with a focus on disability studies and American popular music. Katie works as an accessibility strategist at Anthology helping institutions develop an accessibility approach and strategy through the deployment of Ally.  

LC 302: Attention to Retention: Strategies for addressing the decline in student enrollment in higher education - Part 1 (Pr: Jillian Freitas-Haley, Scott O'Neil, Kimberly Tibbetts) Join us to discuss the college's enrollment efforts and ideas to retain our students. The workshop will cover the outreach efforts conducted to enroll students for the fall semester, a review of the college's daily enrollment report, identifying populations that need retention strategies, and updates on student financial aid. A brainstorming exercise on student retention will be part of the workshop. This is the first part of two part session.

LF 203: With Equity at Its Core, TRIO Works! (Pr:Joanne Jaber-Gauvin, Jen Stach)  Participants will learn about the origins of TRIO and the educational history of laws that paved the way to access to postsecondary education to underrepresented populations. The core and start of equity as it relates to education started with laws such as Morrill Acts, GI BIll, Truman's Report, 1964 Economic Opportunity Act, 1965 Higher Education Act and the 1968 HEA amendments which was the start of TRIO. Learn about the TRIO programs here at MCC and the integrated work that helps our students succeed and the doors that TRIO opens for our students. Join us and learn about the difference between the two TRIO programs and how to have your student apply.

LF 204:  Rethinking Teaching and Learning Scholarship through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion, Part 3 (Pr: Sally Quast, Jill Keller & Faculty Panelists) Third part of Three-Part Session. MCC SoTL Community of Practice has been engaged for the last three years in action research projects to support Equity and Inclusion in our classes and interactions with our students. The SoTL sessions will be interactive discussions on what the presenters have learned in their action research on Equity and Inclusion. Session III - Interpersonal  Interactions to Support Equity and Inclusion in our Classes. For example, intrusive advising, sense of belonging - strategies, one-to-one interactions.

LF 205: Conduct, Complaints, and Cannabis on Campus: Guidelines when Facing Grievances, Misconduct, or Discrimination - Part 1 (Pr: Rebecca Newell) This hands-on workshop will review the most commonly accessed policies and procedures related to student concerns, complaints, and behaviors.  Using a student-centered/equity lens, we will dissect the spirit of these documents and also what is not in their purview.  The workshop will include brief overview of the processes and some group case study work.  There will be time for sharing experiences, feedback, and tips. 

LF 206: The Ins and Outs of Interview Exchange (Pr:Marielle Abou-Mitri) This presentation will provide hands on training for processing various e-forms and onboarding packets in Interview Exchange. This will include tips for ensuring e-forms are processed quickly and completely.

LF 213: Faculty Academy in action: Turning personal experiences into Teaching and Learning Tools (Pr:Lara Kradinova, Vikram Sharma, Syeda Ferdous Begum, Lara Kradinova, Pavithra Giridharan, Halye Sugarman) Panel discussion on using Paul Hernandez's "Pedagogy of Real Talk" and how it can be applied to creating alternative lessons in the classroom.

LF 219: Socioeconomic Barriers and Experiential Learning: Some Observations from a Student Pop-up Shop (Pr:Ashli Ree) 
Presenter will walk participants through faculty’s journey of wanting her students to fully experience the life cycle of clothes, from creating to selling. Presenter will share some of the socioeconomic barriers from student perspective and how the entire class worked through the challenges together.

LF 220: CCSSE Data - An Closer Look at What Students Think (Pr: Arlene Rodriguez, Alison Handy) CCSSE - The Community College Survey of Student Engagement. This past Spring MCC launched CCSSE to all students at the college. We collected responses from a total of 1084 currently enrolled students. This is an opportunity for MCC faculty and staff to take a closer look at the MCC student experience.  We will highlight and discuss some key questions in the survey and explore some of the various ways in which this data can inform our future as a college.

LF Assembly Room “Only-ness”: Leaning Into What Makes Middlesex Unique (Pr: Phil Sisson) Colleges that have a clear mission and sense of what truly makes them unique can be more focused in branding themselves and marketing what they are exceptional at. In this session, we will examine together the concept of “only-ness”, why it is so critical for the college’s future, and demonstrate with examples why we need to lean into and use our “only-ness” to attract students and differentiate ourselves in a crowded higher education marketplace. 

   
    Session 4 (3:10 – 4:05 pm) 


LC 107: 2023 Fulbright-Hays Grant to Cambodia: Info Session for Interested Faculty (Pr:Kerri Gamache, Lara Kradinova) In this discussion-style info-session, we'll provide an overview of MCC's 2023 Fulbright-Hays grant, "Healing Connections: Art, Education, and Wellbeing," explain the application process, and highlight potential project ideas for participants. 

LC 109: How To Anticipate, Recognize, Validate, and Support the Essential Needs of our Students (Pr: Jonathan Crockett) 
Many of our students need help with food, housing, or mental health, but don’t know how/where to ask.Many faculty and staff want to be helpful, but may not feel informed or equipped with information/resources, how to recognize the signs, or how to engage students in productive conversations about essential needs. However, there are many helpful strategies for fac/staff to anticipate these basic needs, provide affirmation, share resources, engage in dialogue, and help students feel more comfortable asking for help. Join us for this facilitated conversation about the current essential needs of our students, available supports/resources, best practices, and the myriad ways that faculty and staff can encourage and empower students to identify their needs and ask for help. 

LC 214: Using Tableau to Examine Student Data (Pr: Chris Fiori & guest presenter)  This presentation provides an overview of how the data display tool "Tableau" can be used to present student data in a clear manner.

LC 211: Introduction to the MCC Grants: Workforce Development as a Case Study for Pre and Post Grants Processes (Pr: Sherri Goldman, Kevin Donahue, Connie Barker, Judy Burke, Lisa Tuzzalo) This presentation will provide information on effective practices to manage a grant award, with a specific emphasis on workforce development grants.
 
LC 212:  Tips & Tools for Telework (Pr: Mary Emerick)
Learn strategies to work effectively in a hybrid environment, maximizing on-campus collaboration and delivering results remotely.

LC 208: IT Strategic Plan (Pr: Joe Patuto) This presentation will provide an overview of the Three Year  IT -Strategic Plan.

LC 302: Attention to Retention: Strategies for addressing the decline in student enrollment in higher education - Part 2 (Pr: Jillian Freitas-Haley, Scott O'Neil, Kimberly Tibbetts) 

LF 203: Marketing 101 - Making Meaningful Communications (Pr:Beth Noel, Caitlin Buckley, Lai Man Wong) MCC’s in-house marketing agency has the skills and resources to successfully support all of your communication needs. Using best practices and proven higher education industry standards, Marketing Communications can help you create MCC branded, equitable, accessible and fiscally responsible materials including: print & digital communications, promotional materials, news stories, visuals and videos, social media content, event materials, QR codes and more! In this session, learn how MCC’s Marketing team can help you share meaningful & relevant information with MCC and the greater community. 

LF 204: Our Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (Pr: Darcy Orellana, Heloisa DaCunha, Coalition for a Better Acre) This session will share what the CTRHT has been doing since it was launched a year ago, and what it is planning this year around racial healing circles, community engagement, and alignment with the Strategic Plan.  A panel of presenters will share their experiences with the Center from their unique perspectives as faculty, staff, students and community partners. There will be opportunities for questions and suggestions.  

LF 205: Conduct, Complaints, and Cannabis on Campus: Guidelines when Facing Grievances, Misconduct, or Discrimination - Part 2 (Pr: Rebecca Newell)
This hands-on workshop will review the most commonly accessed policies and procedures related to student concerns, complaints, and behaviors.  Using a student-centered/equity lens, we will dissect the spirit of these documents and also what is not in their purview.  The workshop will include brief overview of the processes and some group case study work.  There will be time for sharing experiences, feedback, and tips.  

LF 213: Making Privilege Beads to Share Your Identity with Others (Pr: Narra Georges, Tiffany Laudano, Farrorza Lim)
For this activity staff will be making a bracelet to represent the different identities that they have privilege in. To begin the beads are all sorted into different dishes and placed around the room where they are matched to a question sheet. So for example the blue beads would symbolize religious privilege and staff would take a bead for every religious statement that they felt they had experienced privilege. This activity should remain silent while the participants are walking around gathering beads. They should then make their bracelets and follow-up questions could be asked after to close out the activity. 


LF 220: Career-Integrated Learning (Pr:Arlene Rodriguez, Stefana Soitos, Winny Oyamo Twombly) Participants will learn about the vision of Office of Career-Integrated Learning, updates on the staffing of the office and responsibilities of the new hires, and overview of the call for the L&E grant program which is open to all faculty. 

LF Assembly Room: “Only-ness”: Leaning Into What Makes Middlesex Unique (Pr: Phil Sisson) Colleges that have a clear mission and sense of what truly makes them unique can be more focused in branding themselves and marketing what they are exceptional at. In this session, we will examine together the concept of “only-ness”, why it is so critical for the college’s future, and demonstrate with examples why we need to lean into and use our “only-ness” to attract students and differentiate ourselves in a crowded higher education marketplace.

Academic Arts Center 212 - Dahn Yoga - Integrated Mind Body training (Pr:Madhu Dhar)  Based on an ancient Korean mind-body practice, Dahn yoga is a blend of martial arts, tai chi and yoga that helps practitioners develop a deeper awareness of the mind-body connection and improve personal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. At its core are three foundational principles: bringing about change by using the mind, the belief that fire energy travels down to keep the lower half of the body healthy and water energy travels up to keep the upper body cooled, and the teaching that taking care of physical health will give one purified emotional energy that will bring about clear-minded spirituality. Experiential practice, both in classes and in daily life, is an important part of the teachings of Dahn yoga. Unlike other yoga classes, Dahn yoga is not based solely on specific yoga postures. Instead, it uses a combination of exercises to facilitate the mind-body connection. Brain wave vibration is a moving meditation done to relax the mind and body.
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