AAMG 2024: belong centers upon belonging and is presented entirely online, in the spirit of inclusion. Academic museums and galleries consider belonging from many angles unique to the field, but above all else belonging is a shared value-for our relationships with students, faculty, and our local and regional communities as well as our relationships with each other as an AAMG community.
Belonging is also a critical aspect of students' relationships with their campuses, given higher education's ongoing struggle with declining enrollment and retention, rising costs, and political encroachment, among other things. Organizationally and socially, campus-based museums and galleries are woven into university operations, pedagogy, and culture. How might we foster a sense of belonging for everyone-but especially the students-within our campus communities?
Belonging even informs the work we do on our collections, exhibitions, communications, and fundraising and our internal staff infrastructure and culture. When people resonate with what we have, what we do, and what we say, everybody is invested in the impact.
AAMG members have told the 2024 conference committee that learning from key stakeholders is an important way to advance our organizations. Taking advantage of this conference's entirely virtual format, therefore, we now invite proposals that include the voices of our college and university colleagues-faculty, students, administrators, staff, and others-as well as professionals outside the field who can help us learn together about what belonging means and how it thrives.
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