TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

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1:00pm CDT

Making Space for Your Own Belonging

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

Are you feeling pushed to the margins? Stretched beyond your capacity to care? Not sure how to make room for yourself (much less support students while doing so)? You are not alone.

In this workshop, we'll engage in contemplative practices to center ourselves in our authenticity -- the heart of true belonging. After connecting with our authentic selves, we'll learn about Susie Wise's Design for Belonging framework, then use it to dream, plot, and make actionable plans for transforming our teaching work into spaces that foster our belonging.

Along the way, I'll share a few stories of how I've used Wise's design levers to cultivate a practice of transformative authenticity that makes room for my students, colleagues, and I to be (im)perfectly human learners together.

Speakers

April Andry Rahman

Assistant Director of Education Research / Adjunct Instructor, University of Illinois Chicago / Chicago State University

I'm an educational developer in the University of Illinois Chicago's Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence and adjunct faculty in the Nontraditional Degree Programs at Chicago State University. I bridge teaching and research with Black feminist homeplace pedagogies that... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Northwestern Room A

Workshop

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

3:40pm CDT

The Loneliness Epidemic with University Students at its Core: How to Help

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:40pm - 4:25pm CDT

Lake Room

In 2023, the Surgeon General warned about America's "epidemic of loneliness," including international
concern with England and Japan appointing Ministers to combat the challenge. Loneliness is extreme
among college students. According to a survey by Active Minds and Timely Care (February, 2024),
nearly two-thirds of college students reported feeling lonely. International students are even more likely
to be lonely, yet the cause is not just from missing their families, but rather a mix of factors based on the
feelings of "outsiderness" from lack of adjustment to local cultural norms. Some interventions have been
tried for university students, and most concentrate on counseling and peer support without long-term
outcome impact. However, interventions for combating loneliness in older populations have shown
success, including initiating social contact with community engagement projects. We propose to try
similar interventions, like having university students, and specifically international students, work with
mission-driven organizations to create community impact. We believe providing them with community
engagement with nonprofits will lead to a decrease in loneliness. This work has proven effective with older populations.

This is an interactive session and the participants can offer opportunities of their own for alleviating the challenge of loneliness or suggestions on how to explore the concern.

Speakers

Nina Wieda

Interim Director, Chicago Field Studies, Northwestern University

Candy Lee

Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Candy Lee is a professor at Medill, teaching in journalism and in integrated marketing communications. Previously she was vice president of marketing at The Washington Post, overseeing multiple functions, from marketing to research, and originating innovative programs.Prior to joining... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:40pm - 4:25pm CDT
Lake Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

TEACHx 2025

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