CIT 2023 Rooted and Rising: Exploring the Shifting Landscape of Higher Ed: May 23 – 26, 2023

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CIT 2023 Rooted and Rising:
Exploring the Shifting Landscape of Higher Ed

May 23 – 26, 2023

Hosted by  SUNY Oswego 

View the Schedule and Registration Information: SUNY CIT 2023


 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

RHIANNA C. ROGERS

Thursday, May 25, 2023 11:00 am – Noon

Rhianna C. Rogers is the inaugural director of the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP) and a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Rogers is an expert on cultural and ethnic studies, intercultural competencies and diversity education, cultural mediation, and virtual exchange programmatic development and implementation. Her approach centers on participatory action research and community engagement processes. Before RAND, Rogers has held administrative appointments and taught in Higher Education spaces (2002–present). She was most recently an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies (history and anthropology) and the coordinator of the Global Indigenous Knowledge program at State University of New York (SUNY), Empire State College. At SUNY, Rogers held two systems appointments, one as the Ernest Boyer Presidential Fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government (2019–2020) and the other as a SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence Fellow (2014–2021). Rogers was also a Stevens Initiative Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Technology in Kaslik, Lebanon (2017–2018) and served two terms as the SUNY Empire State College Coordinator of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (2017–2019 and 2014–2017). Rogers developed and codeveloped several successful DEI initiatives in her career, including SPEC/Buffalo Project, a grant-funded and award-winning action-based diversity program focused on the development of culturally inclusive programming and upskilling populations to inform solution-making efforts in college and community environments (2010–present). Rogers holds a Ph.D. in comparative area studies from Florida Atlantic University.

The CIT 2023 theme, Rooted and Rising: Exploring the Shifting Landscape of Higher Ed is supported by the following tracks:

  • The New Hybrid Campus
  • Building Relationships
  • Creating Inclusive Classes
  • Exploring Innovative Technologies
  • Evolving Pedagogies
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