Keynote Presentation
Toward Rigor, Health, & Equanimity: The What, Why, & How of Cultivating Trusting Relationships
During this interactive keynote presentation, Dr. Artze-Vega will describe the multifaceted benefits of trusting relationships for faculty and students alike, including their impact on learning. She will also suggest practical approaches to earning and maintaining trust, crowdsource additional ideas, and offer participants brief and low-stakes opportunities to try out a few trust generators.
About Dr. Isis Artze Vega
Dr. Isis Artze-Vega is the lead author and editor of the The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching and co-author of Connections Are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education. Most recently, she served as college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College in Central Florida, which serves about 70,000 students annually and has long been regarded one of the nation’s best community colleges. She provided strategic leadership for the College’s seven campuses, as well as for the areas of curriculum, assessment, faculty development, distance learning, and partnerships for educational excellence. Prior to joining Valencia, Isis served as assistant vice president for teaching and learning at Florida International University (FIU). Before FIU, she taught English composition and enrollment management at the University of Miami.
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