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VIVA: 2024 OACC Forum

Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

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2024 Open and Affordable Community Forum

Empowering Faculty and Students through Open

November 15, 2024

Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus

Additional details will be posted as they become finalized

Registration is now open! 

Register at https://vivalib.libcal.com/calendar/events/oacc-forum-2024.

 

KEYNOTE:

Shawna M. Brandle 

Shawna M. Brandle is a proud member of the City University of New York, the largest urban public university in the US.   She is a Professor of Political Science and the Open Education Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College, a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas include human rights, media coverage of human rights and refugee issues, and Open Educational Practices in higher education. In Fall 2021, Dr. Brandle was a Fulbright Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where she explored the use of open educational practices in the political science classroom. She is the author of Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (Routledge 2015); her current book project is co-authored with Dr. Janet Reilly. She spends her spare time making art with her family.

The Call for Proposals is open!

Past Forums

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Conference organized and coordinated by the VIVA Open and Affordable Community Forum Planning Committee.