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Welcome to #CSSHE2021! Here’s a breakdown of Sunday May 30 at the conference:

(ALL TIMES IN MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME)

8:30-16:00 – Greeting Table open
The greeting table will be hosted by a staff or volunteer from Congress and will be your go-to for questions and support navigating the online platform.

8:30-16:00 – CSSHE Lounge open
Network with colleagues and have those ‘hallway moments’! CSSHE leaders will facilitate networking and community building sessions throughout the day in the Lounge, so return here throughout the day to see who you can connect with!
Meet-up & Greeting – 10:15-10:45
Topic based networking and community building – 12:00-12:30 – Theories & Methods in Understanding Higher Education; Uncertainties, Challenges, and Visions for the Future; Community Engagement and Partnership; Facilitated by Rhonda Friesen, Booth University College & Vicki Squires, University of Saskatchewan
First time at CSSHE? – 15:30-16:00 – Facilitated by Jacqueline Beaulieu, University of Toronto & Kathleen Matheos, University of Manitoba

Paper Sessions

09.00-10.15 // A1: Global Perspectives on International Students (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A2: Community Engagement and Partnerships (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A3: Bridging Divides in Higher Education through Visual Research Methods (Simulive)
09.00-10.15 // A4: From Study to Industry: Partnerships, Politics, and Perspectives (Live)
09.00-10.15 // A5: Organizational Change, Restructuring, and Mission Shift (Live)

Flagship 1

10.45-12.00 // Flagship 1: Confronting Privilege in Internationalization of Higher Education during
COVID-19: What have we learned?

Fully open access. CSSHE/Congress delegates: Join from within Virtual Event Place. All others: Join at
https://zoom.us/j/95609700387?pwd=OFIwcVB4cUNPOUFKWGtvUGVCUnNCZz09 (Passcode: 173756)

Co-hosted by CSSHE & CIESC/SCECI. Supported by the Federation Interdisciplinary Fund. Session will be recorded and made available on the CSSHE website after the conference.

Panellists:
Discussant: Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University.
Crain Soudier, Chief Executive Officer, Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
Christina W. Yao, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Higher Education & Student Affairs, Department of
Educational Leadership and Policies, University of South Carolina (USA)
Thashika Pillay, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University (Canada)

Paper Sessions

12.30-13.45 // B1: Advising and Administration as Process and Career (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B2: Pathways and Experiences of International Students (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B3: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Higher Education (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B4: Rech. francophone canadienne (1ère partie): Stratégies et Planification dans
les Institutions et les Systèmes (Live)
12.30-13.45 // B5: Navigating Leadership in Higher Education (Live)

14.15-15.30 // C1: Perspectives of Traditionally Underrepresented Students, Part 1: Inclusion and
Identity (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C2: Decision Making and Negotiation in Higher Education Politics and Policy (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C3: What’s Working? Evaluating Teaching, Learning, and Campus Services (Live)
14.15-15.30 // C4: Rech. francophone canadienne (2e partie) : Etudiant(e)s et Pedagogie:
Approches, Adaptation, et Satisfaction
14.15-15.30 // C5: Story-telling: Stories about Support, Care, and Community Building (Live)

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Dear Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education members,

We hope that this finds you and those in your care all keeping well. On March 23, 2021, the CSSHE Board of Directors and CSSHE 2021 Conference Committee held a joint meeting to discuss the Black Canadian Studies Association’s (BCSA) decision to withdraw from Congress 2020 and 2021 (https://twitter.com/BlkCdnSA/status/1359136941346816006?s=20).

We understand, respect, and support the decision of the BCSA to withdraw from Congress again this year. (Last year, the BCSA withdrew from Congress in protest against the structural racism of the response to the 2019 incident and the inequities that a virtual conference would present.) We also respectfully acknowledge and are grateful for the work of those individuals and societies who have decided to withdraw in solidarity.

In light of these developments and discussions, the CSSHE Board of Directors has chosen to continue engaging with Congress in order to contribute to change and hold our profession and societies accountable as an expression of our shared commitments and values. CSSHE will continue to critically reflect, and to action our values, to create a more just society. We respect the views shared and wish to highlight just a couple of our Society’s most recent commitments as follows:

• In 2020, the CSSHE strategic plan committed to “[C]onscientious attention to accessibility, diversity and anti-discriminatory practices” and we are dedicated to upholding these values — in principle, practice, and through our policies. We remain committed to providing opportunities for respectful, safe, accessible and equitable dialogues, research, scholarship, and exchange of practices.
• We hosted a related webinar, “A Call to Action: What Are We Doing to Eliminate Colonialism and Racism in the Academy? A focus on hiring and in-classroom policies and best practices.”

We recognize that the intersection of structural racism and the pandemic, both in the effects on health as well as economic security, has disproportionately affected communities with large proportions of racialized people, as well as those who are economically disadvantaged. This year, the CSSHE Board of Directors, working through its committees:

• Advocated for Congress to broaden the reduction of fees to include racialized people in addition to Black and Indigenous, noting that structural racism impacts those not covered under the current Congress fee reductions.
• Advocated for Congress to broaden the reduction of fees to include racialized Faculty members in addition to Students and Community Members, noting that structural racism persists at all levels of the academy, as demonstrated in Malinda Smith’s research on faculty representation at all ranks.
• Voted to reduce the fees for CSSHE’s registration for all members to $50, and to $0 for those with financial need. By removing financial barriers to access, the Board hopes this supports greater equity and inclusion.
• Offers two CSSHE Conference Flagship sessions focusing on these issues, “Confronting Privilege in Internationalization of Higher Education during COVID-19:  What have we learned?” and “Enabling Indigenous Scholarship in Canadian Higher Education”
• Offers a Presidential Panel that focuses on how post-secondary students can help design and enact new solutions to our current social and environmental crises and be a part of the rebuilding of a more just society for all in “Experiential Learning and the Future of the Social Non-Profit Sector”.
• Signed the Charter on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in the Social  Sciences and Humanities.

We hope to continue this work and invite you to join us at our AGM and Awards Ceremony (Tuesday June 1, 2021, 10.45am-12.00pm Mountain Daylight Time), where we will take some time to reflect on the role that higher education has played in reinforcing systemic racism and how we can continue to address this in our profession and scholarship. In advance of that discussion, we invite you to read the Congress Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (AC-EDID) Report and Recommendations, Igniting Change and to sign the Charter on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in the Social  Sciences and Humanities.

For those who are unable to attend or would prefer to share their ideas, questions, or critiques through other means, we invite you to email, video chat, or set up a time to talk by phone.

With gratitude,

CSSHE Board of Directors

View the CSSHE2021 Conference Committee’s response to the Federation for the Humanities and Social Science Igniting Change Report

TO:  CSSHE Members

DATE:  March 1, 2021

FROM:  CSSHE Secretariat

SUBJECT:  2021 Membership renewal

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to invite you to renew your membership in the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education / Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’enseignement supérieur (CSSHE/SCÉES).

So why should you join, especially at a time when money for things like memberships is in short supply?

It is important for you to be a member of CSSHE because at 50 years old, CSSHE is the oldest and largest national organization of people who have a scholarly interest in higher education, and a national organization can thrive only to the extent it draws in as many people as possible.

As a member of CSSHE, you understand the importance of informed public debate and discussion about education. We in CSSHE believe that a vital academic community across the country is an important part of that debate. We believe that education in Canada needs more research and more thoughtful analysis. The scholarly community has a unique and important role in this process. As an example, last year, we hosted two webinars–one on higher education finance and the other on decolonization– both of which can be found here: https://csshe-scees.ca/video-recordings/ And we have more planned for this year, which your membership will directly support!

There are many obstacles to the scholarly community’s playing this role.  We are few in number, scattered across a huge country. Provincial jurisdiction over education acts to push us apart. It is all too easy for us to work in our own communities, largely ignoring the larger national context.

CSSHE is one of the few links we have in thinking about education in a national context, and in learning from each other’s work. An organization of 300 people won’t overcome the problems, but through our common membership, our website, listserv, our various awards, and especially through our annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences we work to create a national presence in higher education. Information and registration to this year’s conference is at https://csshe-scees.ca/conference/current/

CSSHE is an open and changing organization. Our members have very diverse interests and views.  Our meetings are friendly yet lively events, small enough to be personal but with much debate.  CSSHE helps create and maintain both important work linkages and valuable friendships. Issues of values, politics, leadership, curriculum, development, change, power, and philosophy are all part of our sphere of interest. 

We invite you to renew your involvement at https://www.assocsrv.ca/csshe/login.asp?lang=e.  Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments about CSSHE, please email or phone our Secretariat (Tim Howard [below]) or President (Michelle Nilson [mnilson@sfu.ca]).

On behalf of the Board, we hope you will become an active member of CSSHE.

DESTINATAIRES : Membres de la SCÉES

DATE : 1^er mars 2021

EXPÉDITEUR : Secrétariat de la SCÉES

OBJET : Renouvellement des adhésions 2021

Chers collègues,

Nous vous écrivons pour vous inviter à renouveler votre adhésion à la Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’enseignement supérieur (SCÉES).

La question se pose : pourquoi renouveler votre adhésion, surtout en cette période où l’argent pour des choses comme une cotisation se fait rare?

Il est important pour vous d’être membre de la SCÉES parce qu’à 50 ans, la SCÉES est le regroupement le plus ancien et le plus important de chercheurs et chercheuses qui s’intéressent à l’enseignement supérieur et parce qu’une organisation nationale ne peut se développer que dans la mesure où elle attire le plus grand nombre de personnes possible.

En tant que membre de la SCÉES, vous comprenez toute l’importance de discussions et de débats publics bien informés sur l’éducation. À la SCÉES, nous croyons qu’une communauté universitaire vivante à l’échelle du pays est un élément important de ces échanges. Nous croyons que le domaine de l’éducation au Canada a besoin de plus de recherches et d’analyses plus étoffées. La communauté universitaire a un rôle unique et important à jouer à cet égard. À titre d’exemple, nous avons organisé l’an dernier deux webinaires – l’un sur l’enseignement supérieur et l’autre sur la décolonisation – qui se trouvent à l’adresse suivante : https://SCÉES-scees.ca/video-recordings/ D’autres webinaires, soutenus directement par vos cotisations, sont planifiés pour cette année.

De nombreux obstacles empêchent la communauté universitaire de jouer son rôle. Nous sommes peu nombreux, dispersés dans un vaste pays. Les lois sur les compétences provinciales en matière d’éducation nous divisent. Il est trop facile pour nous de travailler dans nos propres collectivités, sans tenir compte du contexte national.

La SCÉES est l’un des rares liens que nous avons pour réfléchir à l’éducation dans un contexte national et pour apprendre de nos travaux respectifs. Une organisation de 300 personnes ne surmontera pas les problèmes, mais grâce à notre regroupement, à notre site Web, à notre liste de diffusion, aux divers prix que nous décernons et surtout à notre congrès annuel tenu dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines, nous travaillons à créer une présence nationale dans l’enseignement supérieur. Vous trouverez des renseignements sur le congrès de cette année et sur la marche à suivre pour s’y inscrire au https://SCÉES-scees.ca/conference/current/. 

La SCÉES est une organisation ouverte et dynamique. Nos membres ont des intérêts et des points de vue très diversifiés. Nos réunions sont amicales mais animées; le nombre de participants est assez petit pour permettre des échanges personnels, mais avec beaucoup de débats. Nous aidons à créer et à maintenir des liens de travail importants et de précieuses amitiés. Les questions touchant aux valeurs, à la politique, au leadership, aux programmes d’études, au développement, au changement, au pouvoir et à la philosophie font toutes partie de notre sphère d’intérêt. 

Nous vous invitons à renouveler votre adhésion au https://www.assocsrv.ca/csshe/login.asp?lang=f. Entre-temps, pour toute question ou tout commentaire au sujet de la SCÉES, veuillez envoyer un courriel ou téléphoner au secrétariat (Tim Howard [voir ci-dessous]) ou à la présidente (Michelle Nilson [michelle.nilson@gmail.com]).

Au nom du conseil d’administration, je formule le souhait que vous deveniez un membre actif de la SCÉES.

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