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Welcome to the 2022 Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience! 

Our goal for the Institute is to help your campus team connect your project:

  • to a specific equity issue that will serve as a high-leverage opportunity for your progress.

  • to the strategic equity goals of your institution.

  • to similar work happening in other parts of your institution.

  • to the broader higher education equity ecosystem, including institutions with common geographic and/or project interests.

The 2022 Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience is hosted by the American Talent Initiative and the following leadership sites who shared responsibility for the planning and programming:
Claremont-McKenna College | George Mason University | Georgetown University | Ohio State University | Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg | Princeton University | Rutgers University, New Brunswick | University of Iowa | University of the Pacific | University of Pittsburgh | Xavier University of Louisiana
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Browse and filter the 2022 Summer Institute schedule below. Register for the event using the green “Sign Up” or “Log In” buttons to indicate your attendance at in-person events and gain access to zoom links for plenaries and virtual sessions. After you register, you may return to this page to add/edit your personal schedule. Zoom links will be made available in Sched 10 minutes before the start of each session.

To Add and Remove Sessions from Your Schedule: First, be sure to login to your existing Sched account (or create a new one) with your institutional email address. Once logged in, you can make live updates to your personal Summer Institute schedule below. Click the circle next to a session’s name to add that session to your schedule—a check mark will appear indicating that this session has now been added to your schedule. Click the check mark again to remove the session from your schedule.

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Wednesday, June 15 • 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Campus Plan Feedback Sessions | Please note: This session will take place at 2:30pmET, 1:30pmCT, 2:30pmPT
Feedback form is now closed.

ALL Time Zones: 2:30-4:30pm ET/1:30-3:30pm CT/11:30-1:30pm PT

We will use this final session for cross-campus conversations, connection, and constructive feedback opportunities. Each team will have an opportunity to present a draft project plan including issues and challenges they’re grappling with as part of their planning. After this brief presentation, each team will then receive feedback and possible solutions to consider.

Logistics
  • We will put 4 campus teams into 1 group. Each group will have its own zoom link.
  • Each group will have a Summer Institute coach as a facilitator and a staff member as timekeeper.
  • Each round of feedback takes 25 minutes; there will be four rounds.
  • Within each round, one team will present their project plan; members of other teams and the Summer Institute coach will act as “consultants” providing feedback and solutions.
  • We ask everyone to help us keep to this timing, including a break after 2 rounds.


Timing:
  • 5 minutes: A designated team member presents their campus draft plan and the potential issues or challenges.
  • 5 minutes: Everyone in the group not from the presenting team will ask clarifying questions and listen to responses.
  • 12 minutes: Group members “take on” issues/challenges of the plan as if it is their own: discuss issues and identify possible solutions or strategies that “we” could implement, e.g., “I think we should …”   
    The presenting team “steps back” remains silent, listens, takes notes.
  • 3 minutes: The presenting team takes three minutes to comment on their main takeaways from the conversation.

    The success of this process depends upon active and thoughtful contribution from the group members. Going beyond simply asking questions by offering possible strategies and solutions – and doing so as if they were part of the team facing the challenge. The language of “we” is important.


What Each Team Needs to Prepare:
  • Each team should select and be ready to talk about one issue or challenge related to their project plan that they want help on.  
  • Using slides of your choice (PowerPoint, Google Slides), prepare three slides:
    • 1 slide on context of your institution & your goal
    • 1 slide on brief outline of your plan
    • 1 slides on the challenges you anticipate
Your focus should be a substantial and specific issue that is central to your overall plan. And it should be an issue that can be explained in a relatively concise presentation.

Examples might include “we’re trying to figure out how to attract more students from our local community colleges,” or “we need to build collaboration between Student Affairs and Academic Affairs to ensure that students know about available student supports,” or “we’re struggling to get more full- and part-time faculty to integrate the use of culturally responsive teaching methods.” Sample Campus Plan 

Blank Slide Template (in Google Slides, please 'Make a Copy' for your own use)

Blank PowerPoint Slide Template linked below

Speakers
avatar for Randy Bass

Randy Bass

Georgetown University
Randy Bass is Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives and Professor of English atGeorgetown University, where he leads the Designing the Future(s) initiative and the RedHouse incubator for curricular transformation. For 13 years he was the Founding ExecutiveDirector of... Read More →
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Heidi Elmendorf

Director, Hub for Equity in Education; Associate Professor of Biology, Georgetown University
Professor Heidi Elmendorf has been at Georgetown University since 1999 as a faculty member in the Department of Biology.Prof. Elmendorf has spent her research career in the field of global health, studying parasitic diseases that primarily affect some of the world’s most underprivileged... Read More →
avatar for Susannah McGowan

Susannah McGowan

Georgetown University
I am the Director of Curriculum Transformation Initiatives at The Red House at Georgetown University . After starting her career in educational development at CNDLS from 2001-2007, she returned to Georgetown in Fall 2019 after an educational and experiential hiatus that included earning... Read More →

Coaches
avatar for Bret Eynon

Bret Eynon

Associate Provost (Ret), LaGuardia CC, Achieving the Dream
Bret Eynon retired in 2019 as Associate Provost at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), one of the nation’s most diverse institutions of higher learning. At LaGuardia, he taught history, founded LaGuardia’s Center for Teaching and Learning, and for 20 years led equity-focused college-wide... Read More →


Wednesday June 15, 2022 2:30pm - 4:30pm EDT