Sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
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Register | Program | Abstracts You are invited to participate in the sixth annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium, hosted virtually by the University of Southern Indiana. The Symposium showcases works focusing on improving student learning, academic success, and curriculum in higher education. It provides opportunities to share teaching and learning efforts as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Teaching Practice. |
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The program includes a keynote session "Responding to Exhaustion: A Mental Bandwidth Approach to Increasing Learning and Success" presented by Dr. Tina D. Bhargava (Kent State University), a student panel session, SoTL presentations, and lightning presentations/ discussion sessions.
Program Overview - All times are shown in Central (CST).
9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome
9:35 - 10:20 am Lightning 1 and SoTL 1 Sessions
10:30 - 11:50 pm Keynote Session
12:00 - 12:45 pm Lightning 2 and SoTL 2 Sessions
1:00 - 1:45 pm Student Panel
1:45 - 2:00 pm Concluding Remarks
2:00 - 2:30 pm Networking Break
Why Participate?
The virtual Symposium will provide you with opportunities to engage with other participants across disciplines and areas of work. Benefits include the opportunity to share your work, spark new ideas, get feedback on your work, make your scholarship visible, and initiate or strengthen connections. Presenters will have the option to include their abstracts and presentation materials in USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR).
Slides and Recording
In the dregs of the COVID-19 pandemic, our students show up to our colleges with extremely depleted “mental bandwidth” from constantly changing expectations, persistent uncertainties, and disheartening mental and physical health strain. Low-income, non-traditional, and non-majority students often struggle with additional burdens of unrelenting financial insecurity, insufficient institutional supports, and systemic discrimination. This severe deficit of mental bandwidth—a resource critical to learning, creativity, and nuanced thinking—leads to disengagement, demoralization, and poorer outcomes, not just for students, but for faculty, staff, and institutions as a whole.
In this presentation, Dr. Tina Bhargava will discuss mental bandwidth and its impact on success and satisfaction in higher education. Many common classroom and institutional practices can unintentionally contribute to mental bandwidth drains. Dr. Bhargava will share some simple principles and practices that can protect and prevent the loss of mental bandwidth, and streamline bandwidth demands to increase opportunities for learning, success, and revitalization.
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About the Speaker: |
Dr. Bhargava is a thought leader in the application of dual-process theories of cognition to the field of public health and beyond. Her “mental bandwidth” research started in 2009 and was initially focused on the cognitive resource availability issues that influenced individuals’ success with the Diabetes Prevention Program, as implemented virtually with a wide diversity of participants, ranging from primary care patients in Pittsburgh, to active-duty Air Force members and their families in Texas.
Dr. Bhargava's current work focuses on developing mental-bandwidth informed actions for improving effectiveness and increasing equity in health services, higher education, workplaces, and everyday life. You can explore some of her work at http://everydaybandwidth.com.
Registration is free. Pre-register by February 8 to be entered into the "door prize" drawing. All faculty and instructional staff working with students in higher education are welcome.
Health Professional Continuing Education (CE) may be earned by participating in the Symposium. CE contact hours are available for a small fee.
Questions? Please contact us at cetl@usi.edu
To provide flexibility and encourage participation, two sets of proposal submission and notification dates are available.
Presentation abstracts and materials are available through USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR), which is a searchable repository to provide broader dissemination of our presenters' works.
Presentations focus on improving student learning and success by facilitating student engagement and motivation; learning in specific contexts (such as face-to-face, online, hybrid, laboratory, clinical, or studio environments, or within disciplines); curricular improvements; or fostering diversity, inclusion, equity, and civility. They also may focus on specific groups of learners (such as first-year, graduate, adult, minoritized, and/or marginalized students, or students with disabilities), or academic success at the course or program level. Presentations that focus on takeaways and lessons learned from adaptations and issues related to teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are welcomed.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is proud to offer the sixth Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium. We are grateful for the support provided by the Office of the Provost, David L. Rice Library, Online Learning, Information Technology, and Office of Planning, Research, and Assessment.
