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The ACAD Leader reflects our mission to provide academic leaders who share a commitment to student learning and to the ideals of liberal education with networking and professional development opportunities and to support them in their work as educational leaders. The Leader is a forum for members to share experiences and opinions related to their work as academic administrators. In addition, it provides members and prospective members with news about ACAD events.

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Game of Chairs: DEI, Campus Climate, and Professional Development in Netflix’s The Chair

Gordon Alley-Young, Ph.D. • Dean of Faculty, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost • Kingsborough Community College – CUNY • Brooklyn, NY

Cynthia Olvina, M.S. • Academic Affairs Manager, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost • Kingsborough Community College – CUNY • Brooklyn, NY

November 14, 2024

Netflix’s The Chair is set in the fictional Pembroke College where DEI efforts are perfunctory, conflicts are mismanaged, and chair leadership training is nonexistent. An entertaining dramedy, the series’ astute critique of higher education struggles with listening, tackling systemic inequity, and fully engaging the digital age makes the series perhaps more relevant today than when it first streamed in 2021.

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