Open events

In responding to this year’s theme “Reckonings and Re-imaginings,” CSSHE is committed to bringing scholars of various areas in higher education research together to discuss and envision possible futures of equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education through the lens of sustainability, indigenization, and decolonization. The panel discussion will bring up ideas about the challenges and opportunities for preferred futures of higher education from empirical research, scholarly and administrator’s perspectives, and feedback from policy implementation. Specifically, based on the panellists expertise and experience, we hope the panel will address the following questions:
· What are some examples of how higher education institutions understand the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) and implement them in their mission?
· What are some examples of ways in which higher education administrators and policymakers worked towards Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education, deeply implementing the goals of reconciliation?
· What kind of futures of higher education could we imagine for more inclusive and supportive systems and policies in accommodating student populations of various age groups and backgrounds?
Through the debate and discussion of these questions, the panel intends to bring insights and provoke deeper thinking regarding what the preferred futures of higher education are (and for whom), and what higher education institutions and policymakers can do to achieve the goals of sustainability, equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education.