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Enriching Scholarship Conference, May 4 – 8, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Enriching Scholarship is free to all members of the U-M community. In celebration of the University’s Future of Learning initiative, our conference theme this year is Life-Changing Education<\/a>. The first day of the conference will be held in-person at North Quad on Central Campus in Ann Arbor. Coffee and donuts, as well as a boxed lunch, are on the schedule, as well as a dozen sessions led by U-M instructors, researchers, students, and staff. The rest of the week will be held remotely, with a dozen more sessions each day. Check out a preview of our sessions below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We use Canvas as our conference website.
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Keynote Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mika LaVaque-Manty
Life-Changing Education: Whose Lives, and How?<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday, May 4, 2026 In-Person Day, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
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The value added of college education in the twenty-first century is students\u2019 ability to learn in new ways.<\/strong> This is difficult to provide in a context where technological development and sociopolitical challenges come so fast that we can\u2019t know what will be new in a year, let alone a decade or two. This is further complicated by the decline of college as American society\u2019s \u201cgreat equalizer\u201d: instead of offering life-changing education for all, elite colleges such as the University of Michigan risk becoming sites of advantage-accumulating education for some. This talk cuts through current debates in higher education about the purpose and value of college as well as about the nature of specific technologies, pedagogies, and policies: they should not be evaluated in isolation, but by investigating whether they foster student autonomy or impede it. The \u201csage on the stage\u201d has already been de-staged; the talk concludes with optimistic observations about collaborative trends in college education where non-faculty staff and students are also all teachers and learners, just as long as universities entrust them with the autonomy to do so.

Mika LaVaque-Manty is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science in LSA. He is currently the co-chair of Campus of the Future project, which is part of the Year of Life-Changing Education, and also chairs U-M\u2019s AI in Education Working Group. He is a political theorist with a focus on human agency in institutional structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Felten
Connections are everything: How trusting relationships drive student success<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Virtual Keynote, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
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Research consistently shows that students\u2019 relationships with faculty and peers are crucial to academic success and personal well-being in higher education. With the rise of generative AI, human connections matter even more for learning, motivation, well-being, and meaning-making. Drawing on almost 500 interviews with students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities across the country, we will examine how fostering relationships \u2013 especially educationally purposeful peer relationships \u2013 offers a practical, scalable, and humane path to ensuring that all students experience welcome and care, become inspired to learn, and explore the big questions that matter for their lives and our communities.

Peter Felten is a professor of history, executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and assistant provost for teaching and learning at Elon University. He has published nine books about higher education, including Connections are Everything: A College Student\u2019s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education<\/em><\/a>(<\/em>2023) and The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning<\/em><\/a>(<\/em>2025). Both of those co-authored books have an open-access online version free to all readers. He is on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and is a fellow of the Gardner Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alphabetical List of Accepted Proposals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to our colleagues who submitted the following proposal titles. Dates and times are still being finalized, but we share this list as a preview of the depth and breath of sessions that will be available this May 4-8 (and later via recording).<\/p>\n\n\n\n