Life Changing Education

Enriching Scholarship Conference 2026

icon to add this event to your google calendarMay 4-8, 2026
8:30 am - 3:00 pm
North Quad and Online
This event is both online and in person
Sponsored by: Teaching and Technology Collaborative
Contact Information: teachtech@umich.edu

More Information & Registration

Enriching Scholarship is an annual opportunity for instructors and those who support instruction on all U-M campuses to share ideas and connect with one another. This year's conference will offer an in-person day on May 4, and May 5-8 will be virtual days. Individual session registration is required for Monday's in-person sessions.

The conference theme of Life Changing Education aligns with U-M's two-year theme on the future of education and centers on questions about education's deeper possibilities: what it makes possible, how we sustain learning from one another, how we build better futures together, and how its value surfaces in students' lives in ways that go beyond expected outcomes.

Keynote Events:

  • Monday, May 4 - Mika LaVaque-Manty "Life-Changing Education: Whose Lives, and How?"
  • Wednesday, May 6 - Peter Felten "Connections are everything: How trusting relationships drive student success"

Additional sessions by U-M faculty, staff, and students are listed on the conference webpage.