Facilitators: Team of the Community and Belonging Faculty Innovation Group led by Michele Deramo, Associate Vice Provost for Diversity Education and Engagement and Aaron Bond, Senior Director of Learning Services, TLOS.

The Provost's Office, in collaboration with Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), invites faculty innovation groups to propose an emerging technology or pedagogy to better understand what systemic changes, infrastructure, and/or professional development are needed to enhance the teaching and learning environment.

Faculty across the nation report unprecedented levels of disengagement among students evidenced by increased absenteeism, reduced motivation to complete assignments, and diminished participation in class discussions and co-curricular activities. This phenomena, described by one professor as "a stunning level of student disconnection," (McCurtrie, 2022) correlates with the aftermath of the imposed isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is concurrent with crises of racism, environmental degradation, and extremist messaging from media sources. This session presents a plan for better understanding what engagement means to the current generation of undergraduates and how the principles of trauma-informed can be adapted to foster environments where students feel safe to learn.

Zoom link for virtual participants: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81368578961

Meeting ID: 813 6857 8961

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