Welcome

To our colleagues, for Professional Activity Days, we are happy to present you with a variety of rich content and live sessions.

Our goal is to engage our colleagues through various methods of professional interaction to inspire educational approaches that support creativity, agency, inquiry, and culture. Effective professional development not only requires a community of scholars but also one that cares.

May PA Days Event Schedule
Wednesday, May 8

Thursday, May 9

May PA Days Event Format

Wednesday’s half-day event will open with a welcome from Dr. Steve Robinson, and continuing with updates about the Student Success Committee, Culture of Care at LCC, Professional Learning Circles, and  LCC’s HLC Reaffirmation of Accreditation. Following, there will be a presentation about Inclusive Syllabi and First-Day Materials. To conclude, there will be face-to-face Culture of Care: An Appreciative Mindset sessions for all who registered to attend the Wednesday session in person.  

Thursday’s event will open with a talk on “Neurodiversity Inclusion” with Dr. Aliza Lambert, Center Services Manager of MSU’s STRIDE (Services, Training, and Research for Independence and Desired Employment) Center. Dr. Lambert’s talk will focus on Neurodiversity in class, at work, and in the community, as well as reviewing strategies to create inclusive spaces for neurodiverse students and staff.  Following the talk there will be two rounds of concurrent sessions. To conclude, there will be virtual Culture of Care: An Appreciative Mindset sessions for all who registered to attend the Thursday session virtually.  

Thanks
Our sincerest thanks to all who have taken the time and care to prepare and facilitate or present a session, and of course, to Patrick Butcher and Media Services for their incredible support in making our PA days a success.

We want to wish you an amazing start to the semester and happy Professional Activity Days!

– The Center for Teaching Excellence

Land Acknowledgement

Lansing Community College occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples.  In particular, the City of Lansing and LCC reside on land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.  While all of our campuses are beautiful and inviting, we remember that we are guests as we walk on Mother Earth.  As we delight in the sounds of the Grand River, we remember that this waterway has been used by the original inhabitants of this land daily for farming and transportation between Portland and Okemos. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our relationship with Indigenous communities, especially as we examine our relationship with our Indigenous faculty, staff, and students and their contributions to the LCC Community. Each day, as we walk on each of our campuses, we remember that similar footsteps were walked along these same paths for generations before us.   As we honor those who have walked these paths before us and the seven generations to come, we reflect on how we honor them in our interactions with Indigenous communities, the land, and all of humankind.