2007–2008 Schedule of Events

2008 Alliance for Faculty Diversity Department Head Training Retreat

Please register for this event by using this online form or by downloading this PDF document.
Registration deadline is Friday, April 18.

The retreat is a mix of workshops, panels, social events, and presentations that focus on attracting and retaining high-demand faculty in STEM. Some past topics have been effective search committees, job advertisements to attract diverse candidates, competitive start-up packages, valuing diversity, family friendly policies, and the department chair as monitor and mentor. The ultimate goals of the retreat are to broaden applicant pools at each institution, to institutionalize hiring practices for diversity, and retain faculty.

Keynote speaker: Robert Drago

Robert Drago, Professor of Labor Studies and Women’s Studies at Penn State University, is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a co-founder and co-chair of the Take Care Net , past president of the College and University Work-Family Association, and moderates the Workfam newsgroup on the internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar. The author of four books and over 70 articles, his most recent book is Striking a Balance, published by Dollars & Sense in 2007. His research, largely funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, concerns time use among parents of infants, working time flexibility, biases against caregiving in the academic workplace, the decline of women in intercollegiate coaching, and public policies for working families. He is a frequent contributor to major media outlets, and has provided Congressional Briefings sponsored by Senators Clinton, Kennedy, and Obama, among others. He was the 2001 recipient of the R.I. Downing Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, serves on the board of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, and is a member of the Council on Contemporary Families and the International Association for Feminist Economics.

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Alliance for Faculty Diversity Training Retreat:
New Mexico Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination

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2007 Alliance for Faculty Diversity Department Head Leadership Retreat:
Recruiting and Retaining High-Demand Faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

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Responding to Diversity: Three Pedagogical Changes That Improve Retention and Achievement

University of Indiana–Bloomington

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When diversity issues are cast in content-centered ways, many faculty members view them as irrelevant to their own teaching. However, examination of pedagogical practices reveals a need for changes in nearly all courses. In this workshop, participants will learn how to answer these questions:

1. How can I radically reduce or eliminate low grades in lecture courses without lowering standards?
2. How can I make my students brighter and harder working using only one hour of class time–in ways that level the playing field for all groups?
3. Does my assessment system unnecessarily favor particular groups?