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Education as Disruption Intensive

The 4th annual Education as Disruption Intensive on April 9, 2025!

Education as Disruption (EAD) Intensive on April 9, 2025

This year's theme is Affirming Humanity: Building Bridges in Divided Times. The hybrid intensive will feature virtual speakers and in-person participation opportunities centered on engaging across deep divides in our society and community.

Keynote with Kazu Haga

10 am to 12 pm

This year’s hybrid event will feature a keynote address from Kazu Haga, a nationally recognized trainer in nonviolence and restorative justice.

Kazu Haga speaking at the inaugural Navigating Tensions Affirming Community lecture

Story Circles  

Starting at 1 pm, end times vary by Chancellor-led unit

Facilitated by Rutgers' Bridging the Gap Fellows

In the afternoon, the inaugural cohort of Rutgers’ Bridging the Gap Fellows will facilitate Story Circles on each campus—creating space for open, empathetic dialogue across differences. Rooted in the belief that education can be a force for connection, Bridging the Gap empowers students, faculty, and staff with the skills to listen, understand, and engage across ideological and cultural divides. 

Rutgers–Newark: Express Newark (54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Newark, NJ 07102)

Lunch: 12- 1 pm | Circles: 1-2:15 pm
 

Rutgers–New Brunswick: Theological Seminary (35 Seminary Pl, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)

Lunch: 12-1 pm | Circles: 1-4 pm
 

Rutgers–Camden: Law Building, Room 103 (217 N 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102)

Lunch: 1-2 pm | Circles: 2-3:15 pm
 

Rutgers Health: Rutgers Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute (170 Frelinghuysen Road, Conference Room A/B, Piscataway, NJ 08854)

Lunch: 12- 1 pm | Circles: 1-2:15 pm

Bridging the Gap Fellows

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The EAD Intensive is a hybrid event hosted by University Equity and Inclusion and the Diversity Education Network that provides an opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to take advantage of unviersitywide diversity education and bias prevention offerings. The Diversity Education Network is a universitywide network of units engaged in equity, access, diversity, inclusion, and justice capacity building.

  • The EAD Intensive is an annual opportunity for Rutgers University staff, faculty, and students to deepen the knowledge and skills required to support critical self-reflection and learning, foster positive relationships, and enable institutional transformation. Content changes from Intensive to Intensive, but all offerings equip attendees to work toward inclusion in their learning and workplace environments.

  • Attendees will be able to selection the sessions they plan to attend and share accommodations required for full participation during the registration process. Auto-generated live transcription will be available for all sessions. Please contact the organizer (diversity@rutgers.edu) to cancel registration prior to the Intensive if you are no longer able to attend the event.

  • Staff, faculty, and students across Rutgers University are the event's primary audiences. This is one of the few universitywide opportunities for faculty and staff to deepen their equity, diversity, and inclusion knowledge and to grow their capacity to act on this knowledge.

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