The #ACPA24 Call for Proposals is now OPEN! Propose an educational or scholarship session that centers the attendee experience, focuses on skill and knowledge development, and addressses our collective work towards racial justice and decolonization. https://t.co/NE0yhtMlIQ
Good morning, #ACPA23! Join us on this last day at:
💜 APAN Sponsored Session: Empowering Peer Mentors as Peer Educators in Ethnic Studies
💜 APAN Sponsored Session: Disrupting Anti-Asian Hate to Build More Equitable Campus Communities
✨ Closing Session with @PrestonMitchum
We look forward to seeing you at this year's Open Business meeting. This event will allow you to learn more about PAN and our contribution to the association and student affairs. Join us on March 28th at 4pm in Marriott Salon D.
…to disrupt systems of oppression, to close opportunity gaps, and to amplify the voices of activists whose identities are often under attack. (2/2) #ACPA23
Collectively, with critical hope on our side, we can harness our power and agency to understand and then address issues facing students that are keeping them from realizing their goals… (1/2) #ACPA23
It may be tempting to succumb to despair and cynicism and give up hope – leave higher ed or adjacent fields for completely unrelated work that doesn’t require quite as much of our hearts. Kari Grains writes in her book how fear can impact hope. (3/3) #ACPA23
HOW though do we do this? I believe we must work to create trust, foster accountability and support, and keep a hopeful outlook on the future informed by the realities of the present. We find ourselves, again, in such a critical moment. (1/3) #ACPA23
thank you Dr. Hall for the most affirming discussant experience for 2 doctoral students & lifting us. s/o to my sister scholar in love & struggle, @ambnicol, our biggest cheerleader, @rosiejperez. & to all women staff of color in #HESA, we see & hold you w/ deep love & solidarity
Rather I’m talking about our collective responsibility to assess reality, acknowledge fear, and dream of the possibilities of a better future. #ACPA23 (2/2)
Hope is critical to us - together - contributing to the field and being restorative to the profession. I’m not talking about toxic positivity–or a naive hope. (1/2) #ACPA23
Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade defined Critical hope as the ‘ability to realistically assess one’s environment through a lens of equity and justice while also envisioning the possibility of a better future. (2/2) #ACPA23
The juxtaposition of a generative and hopeful path--while acknowledging real and tangible fears – indeed a critical hope – is a path forward for us as an association as well as a profession. (1/2) #ACPA23
I approach my work co-leading women, gender and sexuality initiatives at Michigan State, and this role in ACPA, with hope for the future and the potential and responsibility we have – together – to create possibilities for a more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and just future