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Schedule

Wednesday 6/21

  • 11:30 ET / 8:30 PT—Welcome and introductions
  • 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT—Panel and facilitated discussion: Dealing with Controversy. Topics and speakers:
    • Academic freedom: Jeremy Young (PEN America)
    • Labor issues: Mark Bostic (AAUP)
    • Sexual misconduct: Billy Williams (American Geophysical Union)
  • 1:15 ET / 10:15 PT—Break
  • 2:00 ET / 11:00 PT—Keynote: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty. Presenter: Rhianna Rogers, RAND Corporation
  • 3:30 ET / 12:30 PT—Discussion
  • 4:00 ET / 1:00 PT—Adjourn

Thursday 6/22

  • 11:30 ET / 8:30 PT—Morning coffee with affinity groups for networking. Topics TBA
  • 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT—Breakouts: Skill-building for department leaders
    • Making space in the curriculum for career preparation (Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont)
    • Teaching online in the “post-COVID” world (Angela Jenks, UC Irvine; Michael Wesch, Kansas State University)
    • Advocacy and government relations (Tanya Peres, Florida State University; Aimee Huard, Great Bay Community College)
  • 1:15 ET / 10:15 PT—Break
  • 2:00 ET / 11:00 PT—Case studies: Autoethnographies of department leadership. Presenters and topics TBA
  • 3:00 ET / 12:00 PT—Discussion of case studies; implications for equity and accessibility
  • 4:00 ET / 1:00 PT—Adjourn

Friday 6/23

  • 11:30 ET / 8:30 PT—Morning coffee with affinity groups for networking. Topics TBA
  • 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT—Reforming incentives to support public-facing work and open scholarship (Greg Tananbaum and Erin McKiernan, Open Research Funders Group)
  • 1:15 ET / 10:15 PT—Break
  • 2:00 ET / 11:00 PT—Closing keynote: Envisioning your career pathway post-chairship (Pardis Mahdavi, University of La Verne)
  • 3:00 ET / 12:00 PT—Facilitated discussion: Concluding thoughts (Daniel Ginsberg, AAA)
  • 3:30 ET / 12:30 PT—Preview of 2023–24 DSP activities (Janice Ford, AAA)
  • 4:00 ET / 1:00 PT—Adjourn

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