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The conference theme serves as a visionary framework that guides our overall planning. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation of all peer-reviewed work, please note that the theme is not connected to the peer review process (as has been practice since 2019).
This year’s ASHE conference theme is “Land, Memory, and Power: Collective Movements to Revolutionize Higher Education.”
As we are engaging as an association, as universities, as scholars, and as humans, we understand that colonization has permeated the landscape and fabric of the United States, the Americas, and the world in how we anchor notions of access, success, and higher education overall. While there are efforts to erase the colonial imposition on individuals and communities targeting race, ethnicity, Tribal/Indigenous affiliation, national origin, citizenship status, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and the intersections across these identity markers. Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, 2SLGBTQIA+, and other populations. The impacts have been felt through defunding and elimination of cultural centers, banning of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives, and censorship and diminishing of curriculum and voices of marginalized communities on campus. We acknowledge that within higher education, we are toiling with the efforts to undermine our advancements in creating belongingness, cultural centers, decolonizing spaces, and visibility with our students, faculty, staff, and communities.
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