Description

Many universities are seeking strategies for sustaining and institutionalizing diversity and inclusion efforts. This session will discuss UW-Madison’s data driven approach to centralizing organizational structure to advance DEI strategic planning, collaboration, and communication and the lessons learned.

Presented by

Torsheika Maddox, PhD, Director, Office of Strategic Diversity Planning and Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Description

This phenomenological study examined the experiences of faculty and staff who served as facilitators of book clubs for the book, So You Want to Talk about Race, with navigating racialized dialogue. The program was open to all faculty and staff at the small liberal arts, predominantly white institution in the Midwest. The book club groups sought to initiate dialogue about race across campus through an organized discussion led by the volunteer faculty and staff facilitators. Five themes emerged from the in-depth interviews, including preparation, helps facilitation, fear, and discomfort, mindful of dynamics, vulnerability, and this is not enough. This study also discusses practical implications for how to create a wide-scale development program through a book club format at a PWI, and how to prepare facilitators for the emotional nature of dialogue about race.

Presented by

• Erin Lain, Associate Provost for Campus Equity and Inclusion, Drake University
• Anisa Hansen, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Drake University

Description

Higher education around the world welcomes international students to study, but challenges can arise when supporting international students’ career development and connecting them with career opportunities post-graduation. In this presentation we will discuss these challenges, ways to reduce obstacles for international students, and share opportunities for further innovation.

Presented by

Jane Sitter, International Career Consultant, University of Minnesota

Description

What is intercultural learning? And, how can integrating intercultural learning into higher education support greater equity and inclusion, locally and globally? Those are the key questions we’ll be exploring during this engaging keynote presentation. Attendees will participate in a mini intercultural activity, designed to serve both as an opportunity to meet a few fellow conference attendees, and as a jumping-off point for a discussion of what transformative intercultural learning entails and how it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The speakers will introduce participants to a framework they use in their own intercultural teaching and training, which can help attendees consider how to further their own intercultural development, as well as support others’ intercultural learning.

Presented by 

• Tara Harvey, Founder & Chief Intercultural Educator at True North Intercultural LLC
• Terrence Harewood, Chief Education Officer (CEO) at Synergistic Transformations

Ensuring the wellbeing and positive life experience of black women in higher education: how to create "whole" higher education systems through heart centered transformation

Description

Higher education systematically strips black women of their worth, value, dignity, and sense of self. Many experience negative health outcomes, lack financial security, resources, and support systems. How can we create “whole” higher-education systems through heart-centered transformation to ensure the wellbeing and positive life experience of black women in higher-education.

Presented by 

Dr. Leslie A. Saulsberry, CEO of Safia, LLC

Description

International education must be an equitable experience, not simply built upon benefits toward the United States. For the United States, policy equity must be considered central to the international education enterprise.  With universities having roots in international exchange, contemporary emphasis on globalization has potential to lead higher education out of nationalistic paradigms and back to its origins.

Presented by 

Brett Mitchell, Assistant Dean of Students, Trinity International University

Description

Senior leaders in higher education from across the globe will reflect on the future of higher education and will share interventions needed to transform our institutions now and post COVID-19 to be more prepared for disruptive moments.  Strategies for creating cross institutional/ sector partnerships to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, innovation, and research will be shared.

Panelists

• Lisa Coleman, Ph.D, (NYU)
• Teboho Moja, Ph.D, (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
• Tawana Kupe, Ph.D (University of Pretoria)

Presented by

Monroe France, Associate Vice President for Global Engagement & Inclusive Leadership/ Adjunct Professor, New York University

Description

This session will make the case that Higher Education can no longer afford the divide between the work of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and International/Global Education in the wake of a pandemic that is the ultimate case study for the interrelationship between domestic (local) and global issues of inequity.

Presented by

Amer F. Ahmed, Ed.D., Chief Diversity Officer, Dickinson College

Description

In this interactive presentation, participants will learn about interculturality, its importance to DEI, and collaboratively study proven principles for developing a DEI intercultural toolset.

Presented by 

Adán De La Paz, International Student Services Coordinator and Inclusion and Intercultural Engagement Advisor, The College of Idaho

Description

FACTUALITY is a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience, that simulates structural inequality, in America. Participants assume the identities of the characters above, encountering a series of fact based advantages & limitations based on the intersection of their race, class, gender, faith, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

Presented by 

Natalie Gillard, Founder & Facilitator, FACTUALITY