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The Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience

Welcome to the 2021 Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience!

Each day follows a rhythm of Provocations (whole institute gatherings to spur conversation), Panels (three-at-a-time with both external experts and participating teams to allow for focused exploration of topics*), Office Hours (external speakers will be available for small group consultations), and Team Time (reserved for your team to work on your chosen problem). See below for an overview of the topics explored. Continuing scrolling to explore the topics and associated sessions in more detail.

*Panels will explore the following topics:

Data (Monday, 1pm-2:15pm)
Systems Thinking (Monday, 3:30-4:45pm)
Curricular Change (Tuesday, 11am-12:15pm)
Shared Equity Work (Tuesday, 3:30-4:45pm)
Post-Pandemic Equity (Wednesday, 11am-12:15pm)
Building Networks Wednesday, 1:15-2:30pm)

Navigating Sched:

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For exploring who else is attending and a glance at other attendee schedules, click here OR click below on "Attendees".

8:45am EDT

Help Desk

9:00am EDT

11:00am EDT

Provocation [1]: Designing for JusticeIsis Artze-Vega

12:00pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

[Data] How do we engage students as co-researchers in storytelling and dissemination efforts?Sophia Abbot • Jill Sible • Natalia Lopez • Amanda Yen • Susannah McGowan [Data] What are ethical and inclusive approaches to collecting and using data to close the equity gap?Drew Allen • Justin Keen • Randy Bass [Data] What possibilities exist for new data practices - integrating thick and thin data - to address equity?Meg Daly • Ashley Finley • Heidi Elmendorf

2:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Ashley FinleyAshley Finley Office Hours - Jill SibleJill Sible Office Hours - Justin KeenJustin Keen Team Time 2 + Office Hours

3:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Ashley FinleyAshley Finley Office Hours - Drew AllenDrew Allen Office Hours - Jill SibleJill Sible Office Hours - Justin KeenJustin Keen

3:30pm EDT

[Systems Thinking] How are - or are not - funding trends in philanthropy, public funding, tuition or investments supporting systems level efforts?Archie Cubarrubia • Harrison Keller • Emily Schwartz [Systems Thinking] How can colleges leverage their institutional identity/mission to encourage the cultural shifts necessary to spread change?Keyana Scales • Courtney McAnuff • (Chair) Nathaniel Holmes [Systems Thinking] What does it look like when effective institutional strategies address cost, access, and quality simultaneously?Marco Molinaro • Becky Wai-Ling Packard • Kelly Slay • Randy Bass

5:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Ashley FinleyAshley Finley Office Hours - Marco MolinaroMarco Molinaro Office Hours - Richard PetersRichard Peters Team Time 3 + Office Hours

5:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Ashley FinleyAshley Finley Office Hours - Kelly SlayKelly Slay Office Hours - Marco MolinaroMarco Molinaro Office Hours - Richard PetersRichard Peters

6:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Becky Wai-Ling PackardBecky Wai-Ling Packard Office Hours - Kelly SlayKelly Slay Office Hours - Marco MolinaroMarco Molinaro

6:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Becky Wai-Ling PackardBecky Wai-Ling Packard Office Hours - Kelly SlayKelly Slay

8:45am EDT

Help Desk

10:00am EDT

Office Hours - Khristina GonzalezKhristina Gonzalez Office Hours - Richard PetersRichard Peters Team Time 4 + Office Hours

10:30am EDT

Office Hours - Khristina GonzalezKhristina Gonzalez

11:00am EDT

[Curricular Change] How can trauma-informed strategies inform evidence-based practices and culturally inclusive pedagogies as norms?Mays Imad • David Robinson-Morris • Ijeoma Njaka [Curricular Change] How do we (re)center the curriculum on students, equity, and justice?Roopika Risam • Bryan Dewsbury • Desiree Forsythe • Susannah McGowan [Curricular Change] What are the intersections between campus climate and the curriculum?Rosemary Kilkenny • Nyree Gray • (Chair) Ulili Emore

12:15pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Becky Wai-Ling PackardBecky Wai-Ling Packard Office Hours - David Robinson-MorrisDavid Robinson-Morris Office Hours - Drew AllenDrew Allen Team Time 6 + Office Hours

1:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Becky Wai-Ling PackardBecky Wai-Ling Packard Office Hours - Bryan DewsburyBryan Dewsbury Office Hours - David Robinson-MorrisDavid Robinson-Morris

2:00pm EDT

Office Hours - David Robinson-MorrisDavid Robinson-Morris Office Hours - Justin KeenJustin Keen

2:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Khristina GonzalezKhristina Gonzalez

2:45pm EDT

Provocation [2]: Curriculum and Campus Transformation for Equity and JusticeKathy Powers

3:30pm EDT

[Shared Equity Work] How do we make equity leadership everyone's work and a shared endeavor?Adrianna Kezar • Virginia Valian • Randy Bass [Shared Equity Work] How do we recognize, value, and reward appropriately the faculty and staff labor in equity work in order to retain these important stakeholders in our ecosystems?Gina Sánchez Gibau • Adanna Johnson • Gene T. Parker III • (Chair) Ian Scott [Shared Equity Work] What are the connections between recruiting and supporting diverse faculty and staff as core strategies for strengthening student equity and success?Deniece Dortch • Stassi DiMaggio • April Belback • Richard Peters

5:00pm EDT

Office Hours - April BelbackApril Belback Office Hours - Drew AllenDrew Allen Office Hours - Virginia ValainVirginia Valian Team Time 7 + Office Hours

5:30pm EDT

Office Hours - April BelbackApril Belback Office Hours - Deniece DortchDeniece Dortch Office Hours - Drew AllenDrew Allen Office Hours - Virginia ValainVirginia Valian

6:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Deniece DortchDeniece Dortch Office Hours - Virginia ValainVirginia Valian

6:30pm EDT

Office Hours - Deniece DortchDeniece Dortch

8:45am EDT

Help Desk

10:00am EDT

Office Hours - LeNaya Crandall HezelLeNaya Crandall Hezel Team Time 8 + Office Hours

10:30am EDT

Office Hours - Bryan DewsburyBryan Dewsbury Office Hours - David YeagerDavid Yeager Office Hours - Gina Sánchez GibauGina Sánchez Gibau Office Hours - LeNaya Crandall HezelLeNaya Crandall Hezel Office Hours - Marc HowardMarc M. Howard

11:00am EDT

[Post-Pandemic Equity] How can we strengthen co-curricular connections to the curriculum and vice-versa?Richard Peters • Khristina Gonzalez • Heidi Elmendorf [Post-Pandemic Equity] How do we foster holistic, professional identities among students to help them discern career possibilities?David Yeager • Becky Wai-Ling Packard • (Chair) Elizabeth Banes [Post-Pandemic Equity] In the academic year ahead, how do we account for learning lost and learning gained in the past year among our students?Allyson Even • Anne Severson • Katie Boin • Susannah McGowan

12:15pm EDT

1:15pm EDT

[Building Networks] What's possible for effective partnerships with communities and schools to address issues of undermatching?Rob Watson • Jerome Smalls • Camika Royal • Heidi Elmendorf [Building Networks] What's possible to broaden who is included in "higher education?"LeNaya Crandall Hezel • Marc M. Howard • (Chair) Kerri Alexander [Building Networks] What’s possible now that wasn’t before in terms of institutional partnerships?Heather Adams • Ariel Murphy Bedford • Alexandra Slack • Bret Eynon • Randy Bass

2:00pm EDT

Office Hours - Camika RoyalCamika Royal Office Hours - Kathy PowersKathy Powers

2:30pm EDT

Office Hours - David YeagerDavid Yeager Office Hours - Gina Sánchez GibauGina Sánchez Gibau Office Hours - Kathy PowersKathy Powers Office Hours - LeNaya Crandall HezelLeNaya Crandall Hezel Office Hours - Marc HowardMarc M. Howard Office Hours - Rob WatsonRob Watson Team Time 10 + Office Hours

3:00pm EDT

Office Hours - David YeagerDavid Yeager Office Hours - Gina Sánchez GibauGina Sánchez Gibau

3:45pm EDT

Provocation [3] The Foreseeable Future of Postsecondary Education and Training + Closing and Looking ForwardAnthony Carnevale