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Dr. Jill Carter & Discussant Jennifer Sylvester

This session explores questions around curating spaces and conditions where adult learners in higher education will serve generations that follow them. Two Indigenous scholars will engage in discussions around working with learners without (re)traumatizing them.

Dr. Chevy Eugene & Dr. Isaac Saney & Marcus Singleton

In this session, Black scholars with long-standing histories and lived experiences in access programs like TYP will explore how systemic racism and barriers are challenged using decolonial pedagogies, drawing from Black scholars and amplifying Black voices, to teach and learn from students as educators in access programs.

Dr. Max Mishler & Rachel Klein & Discussant Dargine Rajeswaran

This session explores whether contemporary prison education programs in the age of mass incarceration are complimentary parts of a broader project of decarceration and, potentially, prison abolition or if they function to justify, naturalize, and expand the reach of America’s carceral state.

Nadia Qureshi & Thelma Akyea & Jessica Stockdale

This session will discuss the underrepresentation of racialized and mature students in STEM post-secondary. Panelists will discuss their respective research studies on additional barriers mature students face accessing STEM, and implications for STEM pathways and curriculum.

Dr. Tanya Aberman & Dr. Paloma Villegas

This session focuses on York University’s Sanctuary Scholars program which works to deborder Higher Education (HE) to provide pathways for migrant students with precarious immigration status-non-status, refugee claimants, applicants for permanent residence, certain visa holders, etc.-- to enroll in undergraduate programs and pay domestic tuition rates.

Shane Wallace & Alyssia Bueno

Brandon Cole & Maryanne Small

Layla Warsame & Amanda Andrews & Helen Katz