TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

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

11:53am CDT

Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT

Louis Room

There is a burnout related to having to navigate seemingly contradictory emotions and behaviors in life. Learning to unravel the paradoxes can help us thrive. "Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox, is a book that I wrote and recently published. After having a conversation about some of the topics that I consult on and teach at Kellogg, I had an epiphany. I was able to bring together most of the ideas that I have taught for decades under a clear umbrella. I was excited to share my perspective with others in the hope that it would help people to navigate challenges and difficulties that they face, sometimes on a daily basis, with more clarity and confidence.

Dualities, what seem to be contradictions, are everywhere. For example, people walk the tightrope of emotion vs. rational thinking almost every single day. The ideas in the book do not rely on a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership skills and actions but, rather, provide a framework and activities for developing greater self-awareness, and navigating and personalizing your thought process and behaviors. The most successful people are versatile â€” they pivot, listen, and adapt their methods appropriately in any given situation.

I hope that the talk will help participants to learn how to make choices that enable them to behave and deliver outcomes aligned with values to become better people.

Speakers

Gail Berger

Clinical Professor, Management and Organizations; Deputy Director of Kellogg Center for Executive Women, Kellogg School of Management

Gail Berger is a Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication, and the Deputy Director of the Center for Executive Women at Kellogg. She is also an experienced executive... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

12:08pm CDT

Constructing a Syllabus to Help with Burnout (Instructor and Student!)

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT

Louis Room

Teaching through COVID-19 and recent political and world events has been challenging, overwhelming, and even exhausting for students and faculty. Many lessons and strategies I implemented during COVID-19 have become a standard part of my courses and syllabi to help ease the stress of students and teaching staff. The point of this lightening talk session would be to discuss some of the tangible changes I've made in recent years to encourage less stress and self-care (including the structure of discussion boards, increased use of technology/Canvas, late policies, collaborative assignment options, clarity in syllabus statements, etc.). While the unexpected has definitely happened in recent years where course pivots needed to happen quickly, this session will focus on syllabus creation and policies to help anticipate potential areas of flexibility and self-care for instructors and students.

Speakers

Karrie Snyder

Associate Professor of Instruction - Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

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