About the Academy for Responsive Leadership
The Academy for Responsive Leadership is an initiative adapted from Iowa State University. Through this initiative, Michigan Tech's academic leadership will be engaged in workshops, peer to peer learning, and summer reading groups to enhance their abilities to include, support, and empower underrepresented minorities and gender equity at Michigan Technological University.
Upcoming Events
Department Chair Professional Development (DCPD)
Monday October 4 or Wednesday October 6
This fall's virtual workshop focuses on department culture and is titled "Come Together: Building an Equitable Department Where Faculty Want to Work and Stay". Click here for a pdf flyer for this workshop. To accommodate schedules, this facilitated workshop is offered on two separate dates. PLEASE NOTE TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL STANDARD TIME:
Monday, October 4, 11:00am-12:30pm (EDT)
Wednesday, October 6, 9:30-11:00am (EDT)
Department chairs are invited to sign up for one of the two workshop dates using the corresponding registration links below. Workshop materials will be provided closer to the workshop date.
Past Events
November 23, 2020 1-2:30pm
After an overwhelmingly positive response to our pilot during the September Academic Forum, the Academy for Responsive Leadership is currently working with AWED Theatre to do a full length virtual performance of On The Line!
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 Oregon State.
For a preview of what's in store, check out the video below:
This performance has been funded in part by a Diversity in Action Microgrant from the Michigan Tech Center for Diversity and Inclusion's Tech Forward Campaign.
Returning in November/December 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 Oregon State.
For a preview of what's in store, check out the video below:
This performance has been funded in part by a Diversity in Action Microgrant from the Michigan Tech Center for Diversity and Inclusion's Tech Forward Campaign.