November 16, 2020

Call for Community Stories: Sisterhood Celebration 2021

This year’s Sisterhood Celebration theme is “Normal Never Was”, taken from the Sonya Renee Taylor quotation:

We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.

Instead of a keynote speaker this year, the Sisterhood Celebration committee is seeking students, staff, faculty and alumni to speak to the challenges faced since we gathered in February 2020 for the 35th annual Sisterhood Dinner. Through an open call to the campus community we are hoping to solicit and select 3-4 community speakers who, though 5-minute “TED Talk” style segments will share their stories, speak to a Sonya Renee Taylor quote, and provide a place to start as we rethink normal in a shared space.

Community Story submissions are being accepted thru December 6. 3 – 4 selected stories will be chosen and shown during this year’s virtual Sisterhood Celebration.
Make your submission here: Sisterhood Celebration: Call for Community Stories Submission Form.

If you have any questions, please contact the planning team at sisterhooddinner@ncsu.edu. For more information about the Sisterhood Celebration theme or the call for Community Stories please visit go.ncsu.edu/sisterhood.

2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium

The Office of Faculty Development’s annual Teaching and Learning Symposium will be held on Friday, February 26, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Zoom. Register now to attend! During this virtual event, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions led by NC State faculty, watch a keynote lecture, and meet and talk with NC State peers who are interested in teaching and learning. The Teaching and Learning Symposium is free of charge, and you will receive instructions for joining the Zoom event via email after completing your registration.

Proposals are being accepted for virtual roundtable discussion and posters until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 — please see the full call for proposals for details.

Our 2021 keynote lecture, Increase Faculty Success by Increasing Student Resilience: Metacognition is the Key!, will be delivered by Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire. Faculty and student success in a new teaching and learning environment requires implementing new strategies. When we teach students new strategies that cause them to experience rapid, extensive academic improvement, they become more engaged in the learning process, demonstrating increased resilience and making faculty more successful.

For complete schedule of events, please visit our website.

Register to attend the Teaching and Learning Symposium

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