Quaker Leadings in Higher Education Series

Here are links to our past Quaker Leadings in Higher Education events.

Index

May 24, 2022: “Rethinking the Holy Experiment: Decolonizing Quakerism”  

What is the work of decolonization? 
What is (and is not) the responsibility of white Friends? 
How might decolonization impact Quakerism, our testimonies, and our organizations?

Presenters:
Cherice Bock
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
M.S., Antioch University New England
Ph.D. candidate, Antioch University New England
Adjunct Professor, Portland Seminary
Creation Justice Advocate
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon

Christy Randazzo 
PhD, University of Birmingham
Adjunct Professor
Montclair State University, NJ
University of St. Joseph, CT

Moderator:
Ada Jaarsma
Professor of Philosophy
Mount Royal University

Bios:

Cherice Bock lives in Oregon, on the lands of the Kalapuya (now part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde). She is adjunct professor of ecotheology at Portland Seminary, and she leads Oregon Interfaith Power & Light at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. She began teaching in the theology department at University of Portland in the fall of 2020.  In the 2018–2019 school year, she served as visiting professor of environmental studies at The Oregon Extension. Bock holds an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and an M.S. in environmental studies from Antioch University New England, and she is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental studies at Antioch University New England. Bock edits the Barclay Press curriculum Illuminate, edited the environmental studies journal Whole Terrain for three volumes, and curates web content for the watershed discipleship website, a ministry of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. She is the co-chair for the Quaker Theological Discussion group and is the social media editor for Quaker Religious Thought.

Christy Randazzo (PhD, University of Birmingham) teaches at both Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) and the University of St. Joseph (Connecticut, USA), where they offer courses on religious peacemaking, introduction to religious studies, and the intersections between theology and peace work. They have also done ministry across multiple religious communities in diverse settings, including youth ministry, religious education, and social ministries amongst unhoused populations. They have written in a variety of both academic and popular settings, including the Quaker biblical studies series Illuminate, and two books for the Brill Quaker Studies series, including the upcoming A Quaker Ecotheology of Light. Christy is both an editor for the Politics of Scripture on the Political Theology Network, and the co-chair of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group.

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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April 26, 2022: “Toward a Quaker Testimony of Labor:  What Do Our Experiences as Quakers Within Higher Education Institutions Tell Us About Our Lived, Embodied Quaker Theology?”

Presenters:

Windy Cooler
Doctoral Candidate
Lancaster Theological Seminary

Tom Hamm
Professor of History  
Quaker Scholar in Residence
Earlham College

Moderator:
Trayce N. Peterson
MA student/instructor
Human Rights Practice
University of Arizona

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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March 29, 2022: “In Search of Integrity Across the Higher Education Landscape”

Presenter:

Emma Jones Lapsansky
Emeritus Professor of History and
Curator of the Quaker Collection
Haverford College

Moderator:

David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

Here is a shareable link to the presentation slideshow.

Here is a link to the advance reading handout.

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February 22, 2022: “Universal Design in the Classroom: Inclusivity and Hospitality”

Presenters:

Zoe Arditi
Research Coordinator
Mount Sinai Hospital
Haverford College Class of 2020
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Jane Dryden
Professor of Philosophy
Mount Allison University

Jharna Jahnavi
First-year Medical Student
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont
Haverford College Class of 2019

Moderator:
Ada Jaarsma
Professor of Philosophy
Mount Royal University

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

Here is a shareable link to the presentation slideshow.

Here is a link to the UDL_Marginalization Handout.

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January 25, 2022: “Supporting Vocation: Helping Students Navigate a Neoliberal Culture”

Presenters:
Jennifer Higgins-Newman
Program Director
Beacon Hill Friends House
Master of Theological Studies
Vanderbilt Divinity School

Greg Woods
Program Consultant
Beacon Hill Friends House
Master of Divinity
Princeton Theological Seminary

Moderator:
Walter Hjelt Sullivan
Director of Quaker Affairs
Haverford College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

Here is a shareable link to the presentation slideshow.

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November 23, 2021:  “Freedom from Harm: Resisting Incarceration for All”

Panelists:
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, Liberationist
Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism (ICUR) coordinator
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Johnny Perez
Director of U.S. Prisons Program
National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Moderator:
Ursula C. McTaggart
Professor of English
Wilmington College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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October 26, 2021: “Rethinking the Canon: The Promise of Liberatory Reading/Teaching/Research

Panelists:

Ada Jaarsma
Professor of Philosophy
Mount Royal University

Sarah Willie LeBreton
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Sociology
Swarthmore College

Namrata Mitra
Associate Professor of English
Iona College

Moderator:

David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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May 25, 2021: “Pedagogy that Reconnects: Students and the more than human world”

To reconnect with the more than human world, we need to change our pedagogies. We need pedagogies that reconnect.  Craig, Stephen, and Sara Jolena each share a number of specific strategies and practices so you can walk away with both expanded understanding of what this entails and a greater awareness of tools and techniques of what is possible in your own teaching.
 
Panelists:

Craig Goodworth
Installation Artist and Poet

Stephen Potthoff
Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Peace Studies
Wilmington College

Sara Jolena Wolcott
Educator and Founding Director
Sequoia Samanvaya LLC

Moderator:

David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College
 
Craig Goodworth is an Oregon-based artist working in installation and poetry. His practice encompasses drawing, object-making, research, teaching and farm labor. He has received fellowships in art and writing including a Fulbright to the Slovak Republic (2015). Along with exhibiting his artworks nationally and internationally, he’s engaged in various collaborations and residencies relating art to science and religion. Goodworth holds Master’s Degrees in fine art and sustainable communities. Originally from Arizona, his interests include land, place, mysticism and folk traditions.

Stephen Potthoff teaches as a professor of religion, philosophy and peace studies at Wilmington College (Ohio USA).  His academic background is in archaeology and the history of religion, and his principle research interests include indigenous religious traditions, ecospirituality, and the psychology of dream and visionary experience.  As co-editor, along with Cherice Bock, of Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability, his publications also include The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage:  Near-Death Experience, Ancestor Cult and the Archaeology of Paradise (Routledge 2016).  A birthright Friend who grew up in New Garden Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC, Stephen worships at the Wilmington College Campus Friends Meeting.

Sara Jolena Wolcott teaches at the independent international learning community she founded, Sequoia Samanvaya.   Her work re-membering the origin stories of climate change into the histories of colonization developed while she was a student at Union Theological Seminary.  She works with faith leaders, cultural change initiators, and others keen on the spiritual and cultural dimensions of creating a regenerative, just society.   She holds a degree in Anthropology from Haverford College, and followed her leadings around the need for cultural change as part of responding to climate change into international sustainable development for nearly a decade prior to starting her own initiative. A birthright Friend who grew up in Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting, in California, she sits on the board of Quaker Institute for the Future. She currently lives in the historic homeland of the Mohigan peoples, in the Hudson Valley.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

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April 27, 2021: “Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond”


Panelists:

Sa’ed Atshan, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology  
Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies
University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Swarthmore College

Cara Curtis, MDiv
PhD Candidate
Graduate Division of Religion
Emory University

Managing Editor
Practical Matters Journal

Moderator:
David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

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March 23, 2021: “Creation Care and George Fox: Linking 21st century praxis to early Friends”

Presenters:
Cherice Bock,
Portland Seminary at George Fox University

Robert Howell,
Aotearoa
New Zealand Religious Society of Friends

Walter Hjelt Sullivan,
Director of Quaker Affairs,
Haverford College

Moderator:
Stephen Potthoff
Associate Professor of Religion & Philosophy
Wilmington College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

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February 23, 2021:  “Supporting LGBTQ Community Members: Finding ‘that of God’ within trans and LGBQ students and faculty”

Presenter:
Petra Doan. Ph.D.
Professor & PhD Program Director
Department of Urban & Regional Planning
College of Social Sciences & Public Policy
Florida State University

Moderator:
David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

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January 27, 2021:  “Care in Times of Conflict: Cultivating Vulnerability and Resilience”

Presenters:
Wess Daniels, Ph.D.
William R Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies
Guilford College

Carl Magruder, M.Div., BCC
Palliative Care Chaplain and
Director of Spiritual Care
Resolution Care

Rabbi Nora Woods
Interfaith Chaplain
Bryn Mawr College

Moderator:
Donn Weinholtz, Ph.D.
Professor of Educational Leadership, Retired  
University of Hartford

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

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November 24, 2020:  “Quakers, Social Work, and Justice Concerns: Relevant Now, More than Ever!”

Conversation between contributing authors to Quakers and the Disciplines Vol 7 

Presenters:
Paul Anderson,
PhD, Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies,
George Fox University

Douglas C. Bennett, Ph.D.,
President Emeritus,
Earlham College

Nelson E. Bingham, Ph.D.,
Professor of Psychology Emeritus,
Earlham College

Mark Bredin, Ph.D.,
Hospital chaplain

Jen Buck, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Practical Theology
Azusa Pacific University

Max L. Carter, Ph.D.,
Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies,
Guilford College (retired)

Wendy Grab, MSW/LISW,
Assistant Professor of Social Work,
Wilmington College

Erin Johnson, MSW,
Director, Bachelor of Social Work Program,
George Fox University

Christy Randazzo, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Awesomeness in the Skills of Adjuncting

Daniel Rhodes, Ph.D., LCSW,
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Social Work.
UNC-Greensboro

Linda B. Selleck, MA,
Retired Friends Minister & Educator

Moderator:
David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics, Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

Here is the link to the volume on our webpage.

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October 27, 2020:  “Mind, Spirit and the Pedagogy of Political Advocacy: Thomas Kelly encounters the FCNL”

Scholars and grassroots advocates examine faith and prophetic policy change.

Presenters:

Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Advocacy Teams Trainer
Friends Committee on National Legislation

Ron Rembert
Professor of Religion and Philosophy, retired
Wilmington College

Larissa Gil Sanhueza
Young Adult Advocacy Coordinator
Friends Committee on National Legislation

Moderator:

David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics, Bryn Mawr College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

Here is a link to Ron’s Article.

Here is the link to the volume on our webpage.

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September 22, 2020: “Freeing Higher Education from Systemic Racism: Cultivating Healthy Environments To Learn and Teach”

Presenter:

Mica Estrada, Associate Professor in Social and Behavioral Science and Institutes for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Civic Light Projects

Moderator:

Walter Hjelt Sullivan, Director of Quaker Affairs, Haverford College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

Here is a link to a PDF of Mica’s PowerPoint.

Here are links to the academic studies referred to int he presentation:

On persistence.

On kindness.

On social supports.

On micro affirmations.

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August 25, 2020: “Reconsidering Quaker Higher Education: A New Vision for a New Time”

Presenters:

Gray Cox, Professor in Philosophy, Peace Studies and Language Learning at College of the Atlantic and Clerk of the Quaker Institute for the Future

Stephen Potthoff, Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Peace Studies at Wilmington College of Ohio

Laura Rediehs, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Peace Studies at St. Lawrence University

Moderator:

Donn Weinholtz, Prof. Emeritus Educational Leadership, University of Hartford

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Here is the chat text from the presentation.

Here is a link to Gray Cox’s slides.

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July 28, 2020: “Belonging and Emotional Safety: Affective Learning Strategies for First Generation Success”

Presenter:
Diego Navarro, Emeritus Professor, Cabrillo College, Founder and Principal Investigator, Academy for College Excellence, Senior Fellow, WGU Labs, affiliated with Western Governors University

Moderator:
Traci Hjelt Sullivan, Interim Director, Pendle Hill

Here is a link to the event flyer.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Here is a link to the slides shown during the presentation.

Here is the edited chat session.

Other helpful documents:

Traits of Highly Successful People.

Traits of Successful Students.

University Halls: Not Prison Walls

The Role of Community Colleges in Alleviating Poverty

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June 30, 2020: “Human, Equitable, and Flexible: Teaching Principles in Times of Uncertainty”

Panelists:
Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College; Director, Peace, Conflict and Social Justice concentration; Director, Teaching and Learning Institute, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges

Maria Ocando Finol, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr College

Richard Freedman, Professor of Music, Haverford College; John C. Whitehead Professor of Humanities; Associate Provost for Curricular Development

Moderator:
David R. Ross, Associate Professor of Economics, Bryn Mawr College; Convener, Advancement and Membership Committee, Friends Association of Higher Education

Here is a link to the video recording.

Here is a link to the Google Resource Document.

And here is a link to the flyer for the event.

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May 26, 2020: “Turning on a Quaker Dime”

The theme for our first event was “Lessons Learned for Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” featuring panelists:

Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Provost & Dean of the Faculty; Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College

Francisco Burgos, Director of Education and incoming Executive Director at Pendle Hill

Stephen Angell, Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion

Moderated by Donn Weinholtz, Professor of Education & Director of Educational Leadership at the University of Hartford, and Convener, Advancement and Membership Committee, Friends Association for Higher Education.

Here is a link to the video recording.

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