Strengthening Leadership to Develop and Support a Diverse Community
Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity’s Academic Diversity Symposium
March 21 and 22, 2019
Program Overview
Thursday, March 21
10:00 to 10:30 am
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Registration and Breakfast
Location: Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street |
10:30 to 11:00 am
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Welcome and Program Overview
Location: Joukowsky Auditorium |
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
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Keynote Lunch
Location: Brown Faculty Club
The Transformative Potential of Social Justice Leadership in Higher Education
Kris De Welde, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, College of Charleston |
3:00 to 4:30 pm
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Concurrent Breakout Sessions II (see program for details)
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4:30 to 6:00 pm
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Reception
Location: Brown Faculty Club |
Friday, March 22
8:30 to 9:00 am
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Warm Breakfast
Location: Chancellor’s Dining Room, The Sharpe Refectory |
9:00 to 11:00 am
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Film Screening and Discussion
Can We Talk? Difficult Conversations with Underrepresented People of Color: Sense of Belonging and Obstacles
Kendall Moore, Professor of Journalism and Film/Media, University of Rhode Island Alycia Mosley-Austin, Assistant Dean, Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives and Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Rhode Island Bryan Dewsbury, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island |
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
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DDIAP Strategic Planning: Department Assessments
Kris De Welde, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, College of Charleston |
12:00 to 1:00 pm
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Working Lunch
Goals for Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Learning Communities
Shontay Delalue, Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity Marlina Duncan, Assistant Vice President for Academic Diversity and Associate Dean of Diversity Initiatives Lynn Hernández, Director of University Inclusion Programs |