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FWCA National Conference supports those who often "carry more" in higher education to connect, support, and empower each other.

This conference and healing hours supports and connects "those who carry more" and are often the "lonely only" in higher education, including faculty, administrators, post-docs, and graduate students in higher education, and those in education adjacent industries.

09/02/2026

We are not alone.

Join us for a Healing Hour as we pause, connect, and honor the beginning of a new school year together. We’ll also share exciting updates about Dear Higher Education (DHE) and FWCA.

Thursday, September 3 | 1:00 PM ET
Register: sparkacademic.org/healing-hours

08/31/2026

**Just 3 days away.**

Before the week fills every available space, claim a little time for yourself.

Join us **Thursday, September 3 at 1:00 PM EST** for the **SPARK FWCA Healing Hour**, a virtual gathering where we will pause, reflect, reconnect, and make room for restoration.

This hour is not about adding one more thing to your list. It is about creating space to put the list down.

**Come as you are. Take what you need.**

✨ Pause. Restore. Renew.
✨ **Your healing is your power.**

📅 Thursday, September 3, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM EST
Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/50plxRNUREOLkJAhO5LV7g

Learn More: (https://sparkacademic.org/healing-hours)

08/27/2026

One week from today.

What would it mean to intentionally set aside an hour to pause, restore, and renew? What would it mean to set down the burdens that you have been carrying, for just an hour?

Join us next Thursday, September 3 at 1:00 PM EST for the next SPARK FWCA Healing Hour, a virtual gathering created as a space for reflection, restoration, connection, and collective care.

Higher education asks us to continually show up for students, colleagues, institutions, communities, and the work. Healing Hour asks a different question:

How are we creating space to show up for ourselves?

Come as you are. Take what you need. Give yourself permission to pause.

Thursday, September 3, 2026
1:00 PM EST
Register at:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/50plxRNUREOLkJAhO5LV7g

08/26/2026

What does it mean to navigate the academy while remaining accountable to your community, your relations, and yourself?

In **“A Letter from your Academic Aunties,”** a collective of Indigenous scholars offers wisdom, joy, and hard-earned advice to Indigenous students and early-career academics.

The letter explores mentorship, identity, boundaries, institutional power, and the importance of knowing when to take a seat at the table, change the rules, or build something different.

At its heart is a powerful reminder: **You are not alone.** Scholarship can be about more than surviving institutions. It can also be about honoring knowledge, cultivating community and joy, and making space for those who come next.

📖 Read the newest letter from **Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain**:

Read “A Letter from your Academic Aunties”
(https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/dhe/article/view/7436/4398?

08/24/2026

There are moments when the most important thing we can do is create space to come into community with those who understand our journeys and experiences.

Join SPARK FWCA for a Healing Hour, a virtual gathering designed to make room for reflection, restoration, connection, and collective care.

Thursday, September 3, 2026
1:00 PM EST
Virtual | Open to All

Higher education asks much of us. Healing Hour offers an opportunity to step away from the demands of the work, reconnect with ourselves and one another, and access practices that nourish mind, body, and spirit.

Come as you are. Take what you need. Leave with a little more space for what comes next.

Register for the Zoom gathering:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/50plxRNUREOLkJAhO5LV7g

Learn more about SPARK FWCA Healing Hours:
https://sparkacademic.org/healing-hours

08/22/2026

**Two calls. One mission. The academy must listen.**

What does higher education need to hear right now?

*Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain* is inviting writers to answer that question through two opportunities for our upcoming Fall/Winter 2026 publication:

🌍 **Special Issue: Women of the African Diaspora: Letters to Higher Education**
We invite women of the African diaspora to share their journeys, contributions, and visions for the future, with particular interest in experiences within higher education outside the United States and across transnational contexts.

**Fall Edition: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain**
We invite faculty, students, administrators, practitioners, scholars, and others connected to higher education to tell us what the academy needs to hear. Share what you are experiencing, what you are learning, and what you believe we must imagine for the future.

This is an invitation to **write a letter to higher education** grounded in lived experience, thoughtful reflection, scholarship, practice, and possibility.

**Submission deadline: September 30, 2026**
Learn more about Dear Higher Education, the calls, and our most recent issue at:

https://sparkacademic.org/about-dhe

04/20/2026

Thank you for being part of the 14th annual SPARKFWCA Conference.

If you attended the conference, your access to all session recordings is included—at no additional cost.

If you weren’t able to join us live, it’s not too late. You can still register and gain access to the full conference experience, including recordings.

🎥 Register for access: https://events.guidebook.com/sparkfwca

04/09/2026

SPARKFWCA kicked off an amazing pre-conference workshop and healing hour today! But, there's still time to join the SPARK FWCA Conference community. Register today and join for 3 amazing days at https://events.guidebook.com/sparkfwca
****use discount code SPARKFWCA2026 to register for $150 and get access to all recorded sessions*******

04/09/2026

SPARKFWCA Starts Today

🕓 4:00 PM EST
💡 FREE Preconference Workshop
Empower Your Finances: Women Taking Control

Still time to register for the free workshop and join the full conference on liberation, healing, justice, AI, writing, & publication about the experiences of women of color in higher education. Registration $150 with SPARKFWCA2026 discount code.

www.sparkacademic.org/healing-hour www.sparkacademic.org/FWCA

➡️ It’s not too late — Put Yourself First. Stay for the Healing Hour facilitated by Menah Pratt, after the workshop, and register for the full conference.

04/08/2026

Tomorrow we gather.
For research.
For strategy.
For restoration.

SPARK FWCA begins tomorrow April 9.

It's not too late to register. Join a virtual gathering designed for reflection, strategy, and community across higher education and adjacent fields. This is the time and the space to come into community with others, to connect, to support, to empower, to learn, and most importantly to just be you.

Only $150 registration with discount code SPARKFWCA2026
https://sparkacademic.org/fwca
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