Engage-Ed Annual Conference
Engage-Ed: A Conference on Effective Teaching
Dates: March 4th and 5th, 2026
Location: SHSU Huntsville campus
Keynote speaker
This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Jennifer M. Morton, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Chair of the Philosophy Department, with a secondary appointment at the Graduate School of Education, at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Morton received the American Philosophical Association’s Scheffler Prize for her work in the philosophy of education.
Her first book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility focuses on the ethical sacrifices that first-generation and low-income students make in pursuing upward mobility. It was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Education and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. It was also selected as Princeton President Eisgruber’s Pre-Read for the Class of 2025. You can learn more at: Hidden Brain podcast, The Atlantic, Inside Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, New York Daily News, Times Higher Education, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Public Books, Forbes, and Vox.
Interested in presenting?
The extended deadline for proposals was October 17, 2025. New proposals are no longer being accepted. Thank you for your interest.
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