Clone of Equity & Access to Higher Education for Mature Students Research Symposium
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome & Refreshments |
| 9:30 AM | Welcome & Introduction Speakers: Nadia & Genie |
| 9:40 AM | Keynote: Who are Mature Students? What makes equity & access challenging for mature students? Speaker: Dr. Lance McCready |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | Morning Concurrent Sessions: Reflections on Lived Experience and Teaching Mature Students Across Contexts |
Indigenous Adults Speakers: Dr. Jill Carter & Discussant Kristin Bos | |
African Caribbean Black Mature Students Speakers: Dr. Chevy Eugene & Dr. Isaac Saney | |
Prison Education Speakers: Dr. Max Mishler & Rachel Klein | |
STEM Education Speakers: Dr. Kevin Hewitt & Nadia Qureshi | |
Students with Precarious Status Speakers: Tanya Aberman & Paloma Villegas | |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch |
| 12:45 PM | Keynote: Student Funding - A Conversation with Dr. Clare Callendar and Dr. Daniel Corral |
| 2:00 PM | Break |
| 2:15 PM | Afternoon Concurrent World Café Conversations Approaches to Support: Strategies and Practices |
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| 3:15 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM | Wrap-up: Significance of Research Shared During the Day & Identifying Strands for Further Inquiry Speakers: Helen Tewolde & Dr. Lance McCready |
| 4:30 PM | Reception in Nexus Lounge |
About the Symposium
The overarching purpose of the proposed two-day symposium is to disseminate existing knowledge on mature students’ access to higher education (HE) and to build a network of scholars and practitioners to support equity and access work for mature students across Canada and internationally. The symposium also seeks to identify gaps and future research directions on mature students’ access to HE and access programs that help mature students make the transition to HE.
The symposium will bring together adult and continuing education scholars, community educators, student services personnel, alumni and policy makers, to exchange research knowledge and best practices related to conceptualizing equity and access to HE for mature students. The symposium will provide opportunities for networking, collaboration, and exchange of ideas between internationally renowned scholars of adult and continuing education who focus on mature students, TYP alumni with lived experience of equity and access to HE, community educators who work to provide access to HE through advocacy, advising and support, and access program and student services personnel who work with mature students in HE.
As a forum for knowledge exchange and translation it will achieve this goal through panel presentations that feature researchers and practitioners presenting short papers, followed by dialogue facilitated by scholars in adult and continuing education. The final session of the symposium will feature a roundtable discussion among symposium participants on the future of equity and access for mature students in times of crisis.
Specifically, the objectives of the symposium are:
- To share existing knowledge on mature students’ access to HE
- To support reciprocal relationships and knowledge exchange between scholars, administrators and other knowledge users
- To identify knowledge gaps and future research directions to support equity and access work for mature students across Canada and internationally.
HE access is a relatively new area of scholarship in Canada, so the proposed research symposium, which builds a foundation for praxis for mature students’ access to HE is extremely timely.
October 4, 2024
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Event Location
Ground Floor, OISE Library
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 1V6
Getting to OISE
Subway
St. George subway station, Bedford Rd. exit.
Parking
Green P Parking is available underground, with access from Prince Arthur Ave.
Our Speakers
Lance T. McCready
Professor Lance T. McCready is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is currently serving as the Director of the Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto as of 2018. Prof. McCready is a recognized expert in the area of youth/young adulthood, urban culture/development. His work is connected to practitioners and community organizations around issues of employment, education and the health of urban youth, particularly those who identify as African (American), Caribbean, Black and/or LGBTQ. Prof McCready teaches courses in the Adult Education program and the Introduction to University Studies course at TYP.
Clare Callendar
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Daniel Corral
Dr. Daniel (Danny) Corral is an assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE, University of Toronto. His research broadly examines student pathways into and through higher education with a particular focus on how institutional policies and finance shape their experiences. Through this work, Dr. Corral seeks to increase equity in higher education for students who have been historically and persistently underrepresented. Dr. Corral earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2020.
Chevy Eugene
Dr. Chevy Eugene is an Assistant Professor in the Black and African Diaspora Program (BAFD) at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Dargine Rajeswaran
Dargine Rajeswaran is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, envisioning abolitionist programming where impacted people drive the design of transformative education.
Isaac Saney
Isaac Saney is a Black Studies and Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University, and coordinator of Black and African Diaspora Studies.
Jill Carter
As a researcher and theatre-worker, Jill Carter (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi) works in Tkaron:to with many Indigenous artists to support the development of new works and to disseminate artistic objectives, process, and outcomes through community-driven research projects.
Kristen Bos
Dr. Kristen Bos is the Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit and an assistant professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies (Indigenous STS) at the University of Toronto Mississauga with a graduate appointment in Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Helen Tweolde
Bio goes here.
Nadia Qureshi
Nadia Qureshi (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Paloma E. Villegas
Paloma E. Villegas - Paloma E. Villegas (she/her) was born in Mexico and migrated to California as a child. She is a first-generation college graduate as well as an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino.
Rachel Klein
Rachel Klein is a PhD candidate in the department of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Tanya Aberman
Tanya Aberman - Tanya Aberman (she/her) holds a PhD in Gender Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University.
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Kristen Bos
Dr. Kristen Bos is the Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit and an assistant professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies (Indigenous STS) at the University of Toronto Mississauga with a graduate appointment in Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Helen Tweolde
Bio goes here.
Nadia Qureshi
Nadia Qureshi (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Paloma E. Villegas
Paloma E. Villegas - Paloma E. Villegas (she/her) was born in Mexico and migrated to California as a child. She is a first-generation college graduate as well as an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino.
Keynote Presentations
Who are Mature Students? What makes equity & access challenging for mature students?
Dr. Lance McCready, affiliations and titles will go here
Description of keynote will go here
Presentation Resources
Student Funding: A Conversation with Dr. Clare Callendar and Dr. Daniel Corral
Dr. Clare Callendar, affiliation and titles will go here
Dr. Daniel Corral, affiliations and titles will go here
Description of keynote will go here
Presentation Resources
Morning Concurrent Sessions: Reflections on Lived Experience and Teaching Mature Students Across Contexts
Details about the theme of the morning sessions will be added here.
Indigenous Adults
Dr. Jill Carter, affiliations and titles will go here
Kristin Bos, affiliations and titles will go here
Details to follow
African Caribbean Black Mature Students
Dr. Chevy Eugene, affiliations and titles will go here
Dr. Isaac Saney, affiliations and titles will go here
Details to follow
Prison Education
Dr. Max Mishler, affiliations and titles will go here
Rachel Klein, affiliations and titles will go here
Details to follow
STEM Education
Dr. Kevin Hewitt, affiliations and titles will go here
Nadia Qureshi, affiliations and titles will go here
Details to follow
Students with Precarious Status
Tanya Aberman, affiliations and titles will go here
Paloma Villegas, affiliations and titles will go here
Details to follow
World Café Conversations - Approaches to Support: Strategies and Practices
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Wrap-up
Significance of Research Shared During the Day & Identifying Strands for Further Inquiry
Helen Tewolde, affiliation and titles will go here
Dr. Lance McCready, affiliations and titles will go here
Description of keynote will go here
Presentation Resources
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