About ARL
The Academy for Responsive Leadership (ARL) 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 ADVANCE Events
Past Events
To see a complete list of past events for ARL, please see the ARL section of our Past Events page.
Recommended External Webinars To Support Leaders
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Leading During The Pandemic: A Professional Development Series (Various dates)
Resources
Leadership
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How can departments foster fair and equitable faculty workloads?
- UNC Greensboro's Faculty Diversity Jumped in Five Years. How Did It Do It?
- Academic Leadership: Gatekeeping or Groundskeeping?
- Leadership To Change A Culture of Sexual Harassment
- Leaders Aren't Great Judging How Inclusive They Are
- 10 Small Steps For Department Chairs To Foster Inclusion
- Feedback: The Foundation of Kind Leadership
Koltz, R.L., and Odegard-Koester, M.A., The Department Chair: A Resource for Academic Administrators. (2020). 30(4). - Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is A Leadership Issue For All Of Us
- From Surviving to Thriving: Top Tips for Newer Chairs.
- Just Talking? Middle Managers Negotiating Problem Ownership In Gender Equality Interventions
Best Practices in Faculty Hiring
- Biased Results
- We Built A Diverse Academic Department in 5 Years. Here's How.
- The Search is On: Engendering Faculty Diversity Through More Effective Search and
Recruitment
Bilimoria, D. & Buch, K. K. (July/August 2010). Change. - Is Engineering Hostile to Women? An Analysis of Data from the 1993 National Survey
of College Graduates
Morgan, L. A. (2000). American Sociological Review, 65 (2), 316-321. - Nudging Toward Diversity: Applying Behavioral Design to Faculty Hiring
O'Meara, K., Culpepper, D., & Templeton, L. (2020). Review of Educational Research. XX(X).1-38. - Improving Campus Climate to Support Faculty Diversity and Retention: A Pilot Program
for New Faculty
Piercy, F., Giddings, V., Allen, K., Dixon, B., Meszaros, P., & Joest, K. (2006). Innovative Higher Education, 30 (1), 53-66. - Why Are We Still Worried about Women in Science?
Rosser, S. V. & Taylor, M.Z. (2009, May-June). Academe Online. - Why Women Leave Science
Rosser, S. V. & Taylor, M. Z. (2009, January/February). Technology Review. Accessed 15 April, 2009. - Faculty Research Productivity: Exploring the Role of Gender and Family-Related Factors
Sax, L. J., Hagedorn, L. S., Arrendondo, M., & Dierisi III, F.A. (2002). Research in Higher Education 43, 423-446. - Leaving Careers in IT : Gender Differences in Retention
Stephan, P. E. and Levin, S. G. (2005). Journal of Technology Transfer, 30, 383–396.
Performance Reviews/Evaluations
- Women Are Told More Lies Than Men In Workplace Reviews, New Research Suggests. And That Can Prevent Gender Equality
- Marginalizing Merit: Gender Differences In Black Faculty Discourses on Tenure, Advancement,
and Professional Success
Griffin, K., Bennet, J., Harris, J. (2013). The Review of Higher Education. 36 (4). 489-512.
Handling Difficult Conversations
Retention
- (Re)Defining Departure: Exploring Black Professors' Experiences with and Responses
to Racism and Racial Climate
Griffin, K., Pifer, M., Humphrey, J., and Hazelwood, A. (2011). American Journal of Education, 117. - How One University Involved Department Chairs to Raise Retention Rates
Other Valuable Resources