Leading for Equity at a Time of Backlash
Julia Chinyere Oparah • Founder and Executive Director • Center for Liberated Leadership • Oakland, CA
November 14, 2024
DEI
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. Read more >
Facilitating Student Re-entry and Challenging the Status Quo: How Universities Can Adapt to Students Rather Than Expecting Students to Adapt to Us
Ernesto Guerrero • Assistant Vice President for Student Success • California State University, Channel Islands • Camarillo, CA
May 7, 2024
Urging us to regularly examine how key academic policies serve our mission, this case study looks at how a public regional university overhauled its re-entry process for students, simplifying how they return to school after an extended absence. Read more >
Using Cognitive Psychological Principles to Foster Inclusive Learning
Christie Chung • Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship, & Partnerships; Special Advisor to the Senior Vice President on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; & Professor of Psychology • Mills College at Northeastern University • Oakland, CA
October 24, 2022
Christie Chung, presently an administrator, leverages her disciplinary expertise to address one of the critical issues of our time. Read more >
Creating Climates of Excellence with Diverse Students
J. Herman Blake • Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Founding Provost, Oakes College at University of California Santa Cruz • Former President, Tougaloo College •
October 23, 2021
The questions have been: “How do we get these students?” and “How do we make them feel comfortable and fit?” It would be better if we asked: “What is it that diverse students bring that can benefit us all, and in what way should we as members of an academic institution change our attitudes, our philosophy, our convictions, and our practices to make these strengths flourish?” Read more >
Crisis Management for Different Institutional Environments
Ron Buckmire • Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs & Director of the Core Program • Occidental College • Los Angeles, California
Margaret Hunter • Associate Provost for Recruitment and Student Success • Mills College • Oakland, California
Michael Soto • Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs • Trinity University • San Antonio, Texas
Precie Schroyer • Associate Dean, Monroe Campus • Northampton Community College • Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lev Gasparov • Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement, College of Arts and Sciences • University of North Florida • Jacksonville, Florida
April 22, 2021
ACAD’s first cohort of Fellows—a few of them new to administration—reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic. Read more >
