Keeping Our Faculties V Symposium
Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Progress and Promise
SAVE THE DATE!
March 12-14, 2009
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus
Additional details on the 2009 program will be available soon.
View highlights from the 2007 event.
The fourth Keeping Our Faculties Symposium was held April 12-14, 2007, at the Radisson University Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Symposium session information including audio files of most plenary sessions, as well as abstracts and PowerPoint presentations from many of the concurrent sessions,are now available. View the Final Program with links to the audio, abstracts, and PowerPoints.
Description
This exciting and interactive symposium, the Keeping Our Faculties meeting, provided presentations that energized and empowered people as well as helped to break down barriers to full inclusion; offered opportunities to share narratives and experiences from individuals and discrete groups from which to discover commonalities; shared best practices for ensuring diversity from the academy, and from public and private sector organizations; engaged attendees in the development of action plans and strategies for their campuses; and presented scholarly research to frame issues of faculty diversity and provided approaches and solutions.
Sessions focused on strategies that had been successf ully employed to date; approaches for developing a pipeline to retain students of color and recruit and advance persons of color in academia; models for leadership to promote change; and strategies to empower faculty of color, transform institutional cultures, and produce change within and outside the academy.
