Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence:
Accelerating and Assessing Progress
Pre-conference Workshops
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
(separate registration and fee required: $100 members; $125 non-members)
Workshop 1: Accelerating Institutional Change for Inclusive Excellence
How do college and university educators stimulate innovation in and commitment to inclusive excellence to educate for a diverse democracy? Workshop facilitators will address strategies for mobilizing campuses around the goals of inclusive excellence. Participants will have an opportunity to examine barriers to this work and how to overcome them. This workshop is designed for diversity officers, faculty, staff, administrators and others who want to jump start change on their campuses. Participants with or without positional authority are welcome. Participants will leave with new understandings, resources, and connections to help them educate for a complex and increasingly diverse American democracy and global society.
Jesús Treviño, Associate Provost for Multicultural Excellence, Center for Multicultural Excellence—University of Denver, and Nancy L. Thomas, Acting Director, The Democracy Imperative, and Senior Associate, Everyday Democracy—University of New Hampshire
Workshop 2: Learning Across Difference: Curricular and Co-Curricular Adventures in Deepening Dialogue and Learning
Too often curricular efforts miss opportunities to engage the whole student for integrated intellectual development and co-curricular efforts activate personal development without challenging students to integrate their classroom learning. From converting potentially divisive campus scenarios into teachable moments, to practicing collaborations between academic and student affairs, to inviting students to develop alliances across difference to find “common ground” this workshop will focus on initiatives both in (and beyond) the classroom that foster campus capacity for inclusive excellence. The workshop is primarily for academic affairs and student affairs professionals. Participants will discuss models of sustained intergroup dialogue and strategies that teach the “arts of democracy.”
David Schoem, Director, Michigan Community Scholars Program—University of Michigan and Ande Diaz, Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Intercultural Center—Roger Williams University
Workshop 3: Creating a Comprehensive Network of Policies and Actions for Inclusive Excellence
Grounded in the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ work on “Making Excellence Inclusive”, this workshop will provide an overarching framework for engaging inclusive excellence on campus. Participants will examine strategic planning for campus diversity, the role of senior leadership in building a campus-wide climate of engagement with diversity projects, overcoming resistance to change, creating powerful curricular and co-curricular diversity initiatives, the role of chief diversity officers and diversity units, assessing progress, and the role of committee structures. This workshop is intended for senior leaders, diversity practitioners, chief diversity officers, student affairs professionals, faculty, students, and others with an interest in diversity, inclusion, and organizational change. The workshop will include cutting edge research, institutional case-studies, theory, and engage the unique expertise of each participant.
Damon Williams, Associate Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs—University of Connecticut and Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi, Dean for Diversity and Academic Advancement—Wesleyan University
Workshop 4: Women’s Inclusive Leadership: Accelerating Institutional Transformation
When cultivated effectively, women’s leadership has the potential to accelerate institutional change to create more inclusive educational practices and cultures. But this kind of transformation requires each woman to assess her capacity to lead from her own position, evaluating the institution’s unwritten agreements while facing the challenges of working across differences of identity and background. Beginning with reflection and analysis of the complex relationships between self and system, women leaders can become effective multicultural allies who challenge the existing institutional agreements and effect grass-roots cultural reform. This workshop will provide guidance for assessing the interpersonal challenges and institutional operational agreements that might inadvertently undermine the success of women’s leadership. It will illuminate the transformational power of women acting individually, collectively, and strategically to strengthen and sustain inclusive institutions that cultivate the best in everyone.
Pat Lowrie, Director, Women’s Resource Center—Michigan State University; Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President—AAC&U; Gertrude Fraser, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Office of the Vice President and Provost—University of Virginia; Lupe Gallegos-Diaz, Academic Coordinator, Multicultural Student Development—University of California-Berkeley; Sharon Washington, Executive Director of the National Writing Project; and Kathleen Wong(Lau), Assistant Professor in the School of Communication—Western Michigan University
Workshop 5: Multicultural Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Diversifying the Faculty
One of the hallmarks of a great university is a diverse community of scholars, staff, and students. More and more, colleges and universities are expanding their resources and efforts to diversify the faculty. Equally important to the goal of recruiting scholars of color are strategies to support them once they arrive on campus. The facilitators will share specific strategies that assist in identifying and recruiting a diverse pool of candidates. This workshop is designed for campus administrators, teaching and learning center leaders, deans and department chairs involved with faculty recruitment and retention. Participants will discuss strategies that maximize the retention and success of faculty of color.
Roland B. Smith, Jr., Associate Provost—Rice University and Fernando Guzman, Assistant Provost for Multicultural Faculty Recruitment and Retention—University of Denver
Workshop 6: Designing Markers of Success for Engaging Diversity in the Service of Learning
To help campuses move diversity to the center of the educational experience and advance educational quality, this workshop will focus on designing markers of success and making high yield pedagogies accessible to all students. Participants will examine how to assess current practices at their institutions and develop an action plan on changing, updating or creating new strategies for integrating diversity into the university community. They will explore best practices that enhance the academic mission of the institution while fostering diverse cultures and values. This workshop is designed for faculty, teaching and learning center leaders, senior administrators, assessment directors and institutional researchers, and diversity officers. Participants will leave the workshop with specific tools and concrete steps for building educational diversity initiatives.
Robert N. Page, Jr., Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs—University of Kansas
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