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September 1, 2026 | Blog

Pedagogies of Possibility: Supporting Undergrads to Imagine and Build Futures of Their Own Making

In this collaboratory blog post, Jessica Bacal and Deborah Keisch are inspired to ask: What does it look like, in practice, to pay attention to possibility? What does it look like inside our classrooms, in 1:1 meetings with students, in our assignments, with our colleagues? What does it look like for those of us trying to stay under the radar because we are pre-tenure or are otherwise precarious due to our job title or social identities?

September 1, 2026 | Blog

Dreaming America: Enacting Community Joy Collaboratory Report

In this collaboratory blog post, Michael Stevenson Jr., Gregory MacNaughton, and Kate Duffly, introduce the concept of grassroots community parades—people-powered processions that strengthen communities and imagine more just futures by moving and celebrating together in public space to create a feeling of solidarity and connection.

Photo of a group of people standing spread out in what looks like a dance studio. They are of diverse ages and races. One person in the forefront of the photo is in a wheelchair. They all have their arms stretched out in front of them. Some have their palms to the sky, some have them facing down, and some have their hands together. It looks like they are participating in a workshop.

August 7, 2026 | Blog

Enacting Radical Imagination in Higher Education: A 2025 Collaboratory Report

Enacting Our Radical Imaginary (EORI): A Place-Based Activation of Speculative Learning Design, a 2025 Collaboratory, aimed to turn student projects into embodied learning experiences for the broader Georgetown community. The primary partners for this work included students and faculty from the Critical Speculative Design course; the EnActors; and the Red House, Georgetown’s curricular innovation unit, and its Baker Family Terrace, an outdoor studio classroom and gallery.

August 6, 2026 | Member Stories Current

Celebrating & Reflecting: 25 Years of Community Based Learning and Research at Occidental College

This month’s member spotlight uplifts the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL) at Occidental College, which will celebrate 25 years of bringing together faculty, students, and community partners as co-thinkers and collaborators in addressing social justice issues. Founded in November of 2001, by a group of faculty and then president, Ted Mitchell, the creation of the CCBL aimed to shift the College’s engagement with the local community from volunteerism to long-term reciprocal community partnerships anchored in the curriculum.

August 4, 2026 | Blog

Creating Refuge: A 2025 Collaboratory report

Following the 2024 election, the Creating Refuge Collaboratory (featuring participants from Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Macalester Colleges) emerged as a collective effort to explore the ways in which civic and community engagement centers could facilitate intersectional spaces of community care, resiliency, and creative resistance for students and communities. Learn more in this blog post.

August 4, 2026 | Gathering Whispers

EP 1: A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHANIE MARONEY AND ERICA KOHL-ARENAS

In the first episode of Gathering Whispers for this season, we talk to IA Managing Director, Stephanie Maroney and IA Faculty Director Erica Kohl-Arenas, who give us a sneak-peek at what we can expect to experience and learn at the 2026 IA National Gathering.

July 28, 2026 | Events

Gen AI in the Classroom: Tips for Engaging Students in AI Classroom Policy

AUGUST 13, 10am PST, ON ZOOM. In this back-to-school edition of the Digital Divestment Roundtable, Marguerite Mayhall (Art History, Kean University) and Ashwin Vaidya (Math/Physics, Montclair State University, IA Member Institution), will introduce us to their pedagogical practice of engaging students in a conversation around AI in the classroom through the lens of informed consent.

Photo of a large group of people on a brick patio outside. They are mostly middle aged or older. They are all standing, facing the same direction, and holding a handkerchief/scarf over their heads with both hands, which blows in the wind above them. In front of them a woman is standing also holding something over her head. She is wearing a leotard and looks like a dancer or performer of some kind.

July 15, 2026 | Blog

2025-2026 IA Annual Report

We are pleased to share the Imagining America Annual Report for the 2025-2026 membership year. It has been a joy to build new and meaningful relationships with so many people, organizations, and places across the national network and we hope that you enjoy reading on for all that we have learned and accomplished in the past year.

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