Lunch & Keynote: Provost's Symposium √ § Ͼ

Keynote: Beyond Inclusion - Teaching for civic engagement and social participation. Questions about inclusive teaching practices sometimes limit us to discussions about within-classroom outcomes. In this talk, we will explore the notion of education being a vehicle for social transformation by interrogating its role in wider society. We will also discuss strategies that we can consider in our courses, regardless of the subject matter that prepares students to be fully engaged members of society.

Dr. Bryan Dewsbury is an Associate Professor of Biology at Florida International University where he also is an Associate Director of the STEM Transformation Institute. He received his Bachelors degree in Biology from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, and his Masters and PhD in Biology from Florida International University in Miami, FL. He is the Principal Investigator of the Science Education And Society (SEAS) program, where his team conducts research on the social context of education. He is a Fellow of the John N. Gardner Institute and a Director at the RIOS (Racially-Just Inclusive Open Science) institute. He conducts faculty development and provides support for institutions interested in transforming their educational practices pertaining to creating inclusive environments and in this regard has worked with over 100 institutions across North America, United Kingdom and West Africa. He is a co-author on the upcoming book Norton's Guide to Inclusive Teaching and author of the upcoming book What then shall I teach? - Rethinking equity in higher education. He is the founder of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Deep Teaching Residency, a national workshop aimed at supporting faculty in transforming their classroom to more meaningfully incorporate inclusive practices. Dr. Dewsbury is originally from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and proudly still calls the twin island republic home.