Registration Cost

• ACPA Professional or Faculty Member – $30
• ACPA Student Member – $10
• Non-member Professional or Faculty Member – $50
• Non-member Student – $20

Registration for the event can be found by following this link.

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Encamping within and through masculinities: Disrupting and transgressing the demands of oppressive norms

The Institute for Critical Perspectives and Practices on College Masculinities provides a space for student affairs educators, scholars, and higher education professionals to critically explore and reflect on the future of men and masculinities scholarship and practice. This virtual institute will curate opportunities for critical reflection and provide tools for professional practice related to examining power and privilege.

For this year’s institute we are wrestling with how scholarship and practice of masculinities is being enacted within higher education environments. In our communities we will find ourselves upholding oppressive norms and at other times disrupting these harmful notions of scholarship and practice. How can we hold ourselves accountable for our actions and supporting other well-being of all? Through coalition building, we can sort through the contradictions and create new systems of accountability to foster change in academia and beyond. Participants will leave this institute gaining 

• Knowledge on new masculinities scholarship not often highlighted in the academy.
• Critical practitioner insights that will expand ways to make change working within men and masculinities programs and events on college campuses. 
• Connections through interactive conversations to build coalitions of support across our higher education experiences

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Quortne R. Hutchings

Dr. Hutchings keynote will focus on envisioning masculinities scholarship and practice that expands and disrupts binary normative assumptions within gender and sexualities studies in Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) research and practice.

Quortne R. Hutchings (they, them) is a first-generation college graduate, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor in higher education at Northern Illinois University. Quortne teaches courses on college student development, qualitative methodology, teaching and learning pedagogies, and dissertation proposal writing. Quortne introspectively and intentionally teaches and examines higher education as a critical researcher and educator with an equity praxis lens. Their teaching centers change and evolve of colleges and universities to meet their most marginalized communities’ needs through transformative educational and engagement practices.

Educational Presentations Will Include 

Exploring the Motivations of Latino men who Pursue Higher Education presented by Dr. Lazaro Camacho, Jr.

Mentoring Masculinities presented by Cristian Noriega

Turning a New Page: Insights from a Black Men’s Book Club Presented by Kevin Pajaro-Mariñez

Unveiling Vulnerability and Redefining Masculinity in Black Men presented by Quashon Bunch

Beyond the Brother Code: Black Masculinities, Black Feminism, and the Agency of Black Men in Graduate Engineering Programs presented by Dr. Joshua Wallace

Muslim Men in Higher Education and Masculinities: Navigating Challenges and Redefining Narratives presented by Dr. Faran Saeed

Panel discussion Disrupting Oppressive Masculinities: A Jotería Microaffirmation Approach with Panelists Dr. Ángel de Jesus González, Dr. Omi Salas- SantaCruz, & Dr Sergio A. Gonzalez

Additionally, breakout discussion groups will be created for participants to discuss takeaways from the sessions and ways to build on what we have learned.  Full details on the presentation descriptions and day’s events available upon registration.