The ADVANCE Initiative

Throughout the month of May, the National Center for Women & Information Technology is hosting a series of webinars. We plan on attending several and hope that you'll join us in learning more. Registration link is below.

https://www.ncwit.org/summit/agenda/28551

Coming This Fall!

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our planned Advocates and Allies workshops for Spring 2020 had to be canceled. Should conditions allow, we are currently planning to hold these workshops in Fall 2020 with our colleagues from North Dakota State University and Auburn University returning to facilitate.

Firm dates have not yet been set but we will update this page and distribute widely throughout the campus community once we have established dates.

The Fall 2020 workshops will consist of a series of Listening Sessions for women and gender diverse individuals (1hr) and an Ally workshop for men and majority individuals. In addition to these sessions, we will also be training our Advocates and Allies Advisory Board and Advocates Group so that they can begin to implement regular workshops at Michigan Tech.

Coming Fall 2020

On The Line is a performance and workshop focused on a living case study that interactively engages participants on ways they can mitigate bias and equity in tenure and promotion practices. In the first half of the workshop, professional actors portray a subtle and complex scenario involving a department's executive committee formally discussing whether one of their junior colleagues should be awarded tenure. Post-show interaction, guided by a facilitator, allows audiences to unpack issues and practice interventions. Most recently, On The Line was presented as a plenary for deans as part of the American Society for Engineering Education Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions Conference in New Orleans, at SFU, and at Oregon State.

See a preview of what's in store below:

This performance has been funded in part by a Diversity in Action Microgrant from Michigan Tech's Tech Forward Campaign.